Contents
- 1 What does it mean to bus a track?
- 2 What is a bus in recording terms?
- 3 What is a bus track audition?
- 4 What are send and return tracks?
- 5 What is the difference between aux and bus?
- 6 How do you use a mix bus compression?
- 7 What is bus Pro Tools?
- 8 What is a master bus?
- 9 What is bus effect?
- 10 What is a mix bus compressor?
What does it mean to bus a track?
In audio engineering, a bus (alternate spelling buss, plural busses) is a signal path which can be used to combine (sum) individual audio signal paths together. It is used typically to group several individual audio tracks which can be then manipulated, as a group, like another track.
What is a bus in recording terms?
A bus is basically a path in which you can route one or more audio signals to a particular destination. In Studio applications, busses can be used to group signals together for recording when there are too many channels of audio for them all to be sent to your multitracker/interface/soundcard.
What is a bus track audition?
Bus. A special kind of audio track that collects audio from one or more tracks and sends it to the location you specify. The amount (volume) of audio sent to a bus can be controlled individually by track. An effect, or group of effects, can be applied once, yet apply to multiple tracks.
What are send and return tracks?
A return track is a track that contains audio effects, and the output of every track in your project can be sent through it, using send controls. You can apply a common effect across many tracks and if you’re using a very CPU-heavy reverb effect, you don’t need to load 24 of them into your project – just one will do.
What is the difference between aux and bus?
An aux is used to send a varying amount of signal to somewhere else; be it an effect, etc. A buss is used when you want to control multiple tracks simultaneously to either adjust level or add signal processing.
How do you use a mix bus compression?
The first thing to do when setting a compressor on the mix bus is choose the ratio and threshold. Setting these two parameters is quick and straightforward for mix bus purposes. Start with a low ratio – 2:1 is often plenty. Next adjust the threshold while looking at the gain reduction caused by the compressor.
What is bus Pro Tools?
After that, I show what terms Pro Tools uses for the various components. In the most generic way, a bus is like a water pipe or a piece of wire that “transports” an audio signal.
What is a master bus?
What is the master bus? The master bus is the final stereo channel in your DAW’s mixer before your audio outputs to your speakers. That means every other track and aux return channel included in your mix is eventually routed here. It’s sometimes called the stereo bus, the 2- bus or the mix bus.
What is bus effect?
An effects bus is an auxiliary track which only passes signal you route to it. A “send” lets you determine how much direct signal is going to the effects bus, essentially giving you control over wet/dry balance. If it’s for reverb, simply add the plugin of your choice to the bus and you’re all set!
What is a mix bus compressor?
What is Mix Bus Compression? Mix bus compression is the act of mixing through a compressor on the master output, although the term is commonly used today also to refer to sub- mixing sets of instruments on an auxiliary bus as well, such as drums.