So I've been into sound design and composition for quite a while now, prettymuch self taught, using lots of inspiration and practice to create my own taste of sounds and musicality, which has been a lot of fun and I'm finally starting to get quick and thorough enough to have some good material, and I'm starting to get my head more into mixing gear, specifically bussing and signal chains. I'm curious to hear how you electronic guys are doing your stuff.. I do (God I hate using genres to describe my stuff) kind of freestyle stuff influenced by lots of IDM, ambient, breakbeat, hip hop, and lofi music. Very 90s inspired. I'm setting up a 2bus chain and that is pretty self explanatory, as it's easy to imagine what works well on your 2bus, but I'm more interested in other busses commonly used, and I want to get any idea of what people process them through once they have their subgroups mixed down into stereo bus tracks?
First off, here is the bussing system I usually run:
-Drum Bus (with subgroups for each drum type, and a one with chopped breaks w/ sub-subgroups for characteristics and layers of the chops)
-Melodic (with subgroups for leads, backing keys such as chords and anything musical tonal played on a keyboard that sits behind in the mix, guitars, pianos, orchestral, and tonal vocals)
-Bass (synth bass, sub bass, bass guitar)
-Atmosphere ( atonal modular noises, pads that are not part of the melodic content, granular stuff/mangled samples, foley etc)
-FX (a buss where I keep all the recorded audio returns my sent fx, namely verbs/delays so I can level them all out and EQ them against eachother, then EQS the bus against the rest of the busses to make surgical EQS edits over the fx as a whole to help prevent conflicting with other sounds in the mix, and to make them sit properly)
This is seeming to work with my past couple projects, but I haven't found much discussion on what other producers are doing as far as their subgroups and main busses.
Also, once you are at the mixing point where your tracks and subgroups are all mixed down to busses, what are you using in the signal chains? As I mentioned before, master bus is easy to decide, and there are a lot of threads on drum bus chains, but what does your "synth" bus chain have in it for instance? I'd love to look over what your routing/bussing setups look like, which ones go out into bus processing chains, and what is in those chains (and why, if that's not being greedy!) so I can get an idea of how other producers work with this kind of stuff. You don't even have to be specific, you can just mention (off the top of my head) synth bus>Saturator>pultec type EQ>fet comp and that would be great! Even better actually, as I care much more about the type of processing you prefer, and less about the manufacturer and model of processor you stick it through.
First off, here is the bussing system I usually run:
-Drum Bus (with subgroups for each drum type, and a one with chopped breaks w/ sub-subgroups for characteristics and layers of the chops)
-Melodic (with subgroups for leads, backing keys such as chords and anything musical tonal played on a keyboard that sits behind in the mix, guitars, pianos, orchestral, and tonal vocals)
-Bass (synth bass, sub bass, bass guitar)
-Atmosphere ( atonal modular noises, pads that are not part of the melodic content, granular stuff/mangled samples, foley etc)
-FX (a buss where I keep all the recorded audio returns my sent fx, namely verbs/delays so I can level them all out and EQ them against eachother, then EQS the bus against the rest of the busses to make surgical EQS edits over the fx as a whole to help prevent conflicting with other sounds in the mix, and to make them sit properly)
This is seeming to work with my past couple projects, but I haven't found much discussion on what other producers are doing as far as their subgroups and main busses.
Also, once you are at the mixing point where your tracks and subgroups are all mixed down to busses, what are you using in the signal chains? As I mentioned before, master bus is easy to decide, and there are a lot of threads on drum bus chains, but what does your "synth" bus chain have in it for instance? I'd love to look over what your routing/bussing setups look like, which ones go out into bus processing chains, and what is in those chains (and why, if that's not being greedy!) so I can get an idea of how other producers work with this kind of stuff. You don't even have to be specific, you can just mention (off the top of my head) synth bus>Saturator>pultec type EQ>fet comp and that would be great! Even better actually, as I care much more about the type of processing you prefer, and less about the manufacturer and model of processor you stick it through.
Curious about the busses and chains others use to mix down
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