fx return and solo mute buses

[danyg]

Coming from Logic I'm still struggling with PT's solo/mute approach. Those of you who use both DAW's probably know what I'm talking about.

In Logic I can solo a bus and simply hear any fader routed to it (instead of soloing all the single channels or using solo save)

How do you guys solo f.ex. a reverb return (or a // compression) without the direct sound. I'd like to EQ the reverb return and listen to it in solo. I know I can set the send to pre and back to post again. I'm just searching for a faster workflow. In PT I always need 1 or 2 steps more than in Logic. Maybe it's just me
Basically PT is emulating old consoles but this whole solo/mute thing is really slow nowadays and kind of unnecessary for a modern DAW. Avid could give more options in the preferences to change the behaviour. Anyway...

I would appreciate any help or suggestion,
Best

[Wall2Wall]

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[danyg]

thank you Wall2Wall.

If you're using a buss to make a subgroup, then you should have an aux input in your mixer and you simply press the solo button while in AFL mode and you've soloed your buss and all members of it.

I tried that one but it's not the behaviour I'm looking for.

[albee1952]

Mute-safe and Solo-safe are 2 functions that can help. And, if your interface has another set of outputs, you could use them to route audio out. I do this on my HD rig and feed a second set of outputs to a spare input of my monitor/source switcher(Presonus Central Station, but most any could accommodate). In my template sessions(and tracks) I have a pre-fade send in the last slot of every track, that is set to -0 and muted. By selecting this alternative path on my switcher, I can Ctrl-click on any of my extra sends and listen to any signal(or combination) without fighting the mute/solo issue, and without affecting any headphone mixes during a tracking session.