09-23-2016, 06:15 PM
There's one thing that confuses me about Harrison Mixbus.
I'm trying to learn sound mixing through different online resources, and their examples are usually related to Pro Tools and other DAWs. So while it's no problem translating that to menus and buttons in Mixbus, there's often being used a fairly different workflow, with lots of busses used.
* One is for grouping of tracks, with fader, EQs and effects being applied on the group instead of each individual channel.
* One is for parallell compression, where the signal is sent to several different busses with a different compression on each.
* One is for reverb where you send various amounts of reverb send to a few busses with different reverbs, which is then sent to master. I agree utility busses can be used here, but it's fairly cumbersome to set up send from each and every channel. I have tried to set up a send from a mixbus to a utility bus and then to master and it failed badly, no matter how weak the signal.
To put it short, it's possible to use a whole lot of busses, and often to not such a good effect.
So what's the recommended workflow here? As in, an established practice it's possible to follow and have good results? Or eventually, different ideas on how this can be done to good effect.
How do you guys do it?
I'm trying to learn sound mixing through different online resources, and their examples are usually related to Pro Tools and other DAWs. So while it's no problem translating that to menus and buttons in Mixbus, there's often being used a fairly different workflow, with lots of busses used.
* One is for grouping of tracks, with fader, EQs and effects being applied on the group instead of each individual channel.
* One is for parallell compression, where the signal is sent to several different busses with a different compression on each.
* One is for reverb where you send various amounts of reverb send to a few busses with different reverbs, which is then sent to master. I agree utility busses can be used here, but it's fairly cumbersome to set up send from each and every channel. I have tried to set up a send from a mixbus to a utility bus and then to master and it failed badly, no matter how weak the signal.
To put it short, it's possible to use a whole lot of busses, and often to not such a good effect.
So what's the recommended workflow here? As in, an established practice it's possible to follow and have good results? Or eventually, different ideas on how this can be done to good effect.
How do you guys do it?