Bussing

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chris_woodward
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Bussing

Post by chris_woodward » Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:20 pm

I'm looking to bus all my drum tracks into an individual track, then compress the whole lot. Im not sure how one goes about the bussing. any info would be great

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Re: Bussing

Post by krank » Sun Sep 30, 2007 12:57 pm

chris_woodward wrote:I'm looking to bus all my drum tracks into an individual track, then compress the whole lot. Im not sure how one goes about the bussing. any info would be great
How about just creating a Return track?

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Re: Bussing

Post by mike holiday » Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:48 pm

chris_woodward wrote:I'm looking to bus all my drum tracks into an individual track, then compress the whole lot. Im not sure how one goes about the bussing. any info would be great


you can make a new audio track..

and route all of your separate drum tracks into your new track, effectively sub mixing your drums, and adding your compressor to the drum mix.
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Post by Michael-SW » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:06 pm

Just rember to set "monitoring on" on the bus track and it should work like a charm.

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Post by leedsquietman » Sun Sep 30, 2007 9:32 pm

Read page 160 of the Live 6 manual 'creating submixes'

it even gives an example with creating a drum group buss
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