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It looks like you understand how to enable an aux bus but maybe not why you use an aux bus. I see terms like EQ bus and Comp vocal bus. Those are effects that would more likely be used in the FX bin or, in the case of an analog set up, a insert/return path.

You can use Aux busses for effects that will be common for several instrument tracks. IOW, a hall reverb that might be used for many tracks. In that case you would use the a Send to a Reverb bus instead of an track output to a bus.

The way you have each track routed to an Aux bus is more like how a Group bus set up. IOW all electric guitars would be routed to a common ELECTRIC GUITARS bus so that one fader can control the over all level of the group (Elect guitars) without affecting the balance of each individual guitar in relationship to each other.

A little more study and you'll have it.

Thanks for your reply, I'll continue to study a bit more, however I do like to access the original sound quickly so prefer to keep the original tracks free of any FX and instead give each FX its own Bus and use that FX bin.

You can bypass the entire FX bin in a couple of mouse clicks.

There is no right or wrong way to order your plugins. All that is required is that you take a moment and think about what you are trying to accomplish first. Then, when you know what the end result desired is, you set your plug ins up to accomplish that.

If you have a drum buss (or any other group), you dont need to route that to the master, you can route that to the main out and this will give your mix a better seperation if your drums or any other instruments are getting burried in the mix. Just a suggestion, i dont always do it that way, but sometimes ill try it and see how it sounds.
Cj

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