Mixing drums using stereo aux

[johnwayne]

I was thinking the same. i just started to play around with it and I think it makes everything punchier. By not sending the overheads also allows you to pan them, which is not possible if you bus them out to an aux.

[Naagzh]

I was thinking the same. i just started to play around with it and I think it makes everything punchier. By not sending the overheads also allows you to pan them, which is not possible if you bus them out to an aux.

Untrue. If your send is stereo (buss 1-2 instead of buss 1) and the aux return is stereo, then a pan knob appears above the send fader, so you can preserve stereo imaging, if you'd ever want to send the overheads or room mics. Never say never.

And yes, it's silly to assign no output to a drum track; it's an inelegant waste of space, but I think the author was just trying to illustrate the dual path idea for the newbies. He's an engineer, not a Pullitzer Prize winner.