Faders, aux and other stories

[martin coria]

Hi all, here is the deal.

I have a drum session made with Pt9 and i have the waveform channels and aux channels with eq, compress, etc. The thing is that if i move the faders of the snares, the compressor (smak) on my aux channel changes suddenly.

How can i control the faders with changing the compressor in and out ??...

thanks a lot !
Martin.

[jeam25]

I think you have to explain yourself better.

What exactlty change on those channels ?

[ondruspat]

set your sends to pre-fader...

[albee1952]

As ondruspat said, pre-fader AUX sends will ignore mix fader adjustments. If SMACK is just for compressing the snare, why not insert it on the snare track? There's several ways of doing drums, so ultimately, its up to you(and its not a question of right or wrong). I usually go for the best drum mix I can do with EQ and a touch of verb. Then I AUX send all the shell sounds(kick, snare and toms) to a stereo AUX with a compressor(usually Waves SSL bus comp) and give that some "squash" and bring the AUX fader up until it gives the added "beef" that I want. In the end, if it sounds good, it IS good

[martin coria]

thanks a lot folks, that´s what i was looking for. I use BFD2 to do my drums on my songs, with greats results...then i mix them on every channel in Pt9...great results too...

Thanks a lot !
Martin.

[martin coria]

How can i control two differents faders (kick in and kick out) with only one fader. Using a master fader?. How is the route?...