FX Busses?

Hello,

I want to have a reverb bus to eliminate multiple reverb plugins.  The way I have my busses now are set up by instrument groups (bass, guitars, synths, etc...)   Now let's say I want to add some reverb to some synths and not others?   Does that mean now I have to route some of the synths over to the newly created reverb bus?  because then there goes goodbye to my nice orginazation by instrument groups.   Is there a solution I am not thinking of?

Thank You,
Adam

Thanks CJ.  I meant the orginization in my busses.  If I have 4 synth parts and only 2 of them need the same reverb, they will no longer go to my "SYNTH BUS" but rather to my "REVERB BUS"... which is going to annoy me.... but maybe i just need to get over it :)

thanks again!
Adam

You can still route all of the synths to the same bus.

Use a second bus, with a reverb set to 100% wet, output through the synth bus.

Use a send on any of the synths that you want reverb.

You can use the fader on the reverb bus to control you wet/dry mix in the synth bux. THEN, once it's all set up, you can still control all of your synths AND your reverb simply by using the fader on the synth bus.

Similar setup as what CJ mentions, but gives you instant access to your wet/dry mix with the reverb bus fader.

Lanceindastudio


or just insert a send in the synth tracks for the reverb bus and add reverb amount at the track

+1
I might send half a dozen guitar tracks to the same bus to group them, and slap a reverb on the bus, but I don't actually have to dial  the reverb up on each track

adamlewis7609


Hello,

I want to have a reverb bus to eliminate multiple reverb plugins.  The way I have my busses now are set up by instrument groups (bass, guitars, synths, etc...)   Now let's say I want to add some reverb to some synths and not others?   Does that mean now I have to route some of the synths over to the newly created reverb bus?  because then there goes goodbye to my nice orginazation by instrument groups.   Is there a solution I am not thinking of?

Thank You,
Adam

A reverb effects is not a "group" type buss. It's "in addition to" the dry channel(s).  You send a "copy" of the dry signal of each channel via it's aux to that buss.  Now, because you are blending that back into the mix you don't want any of that dry signal to leak through, you only want the reverb created from that dry signal. So set your buss reverb  plugin mix control to 100% effect (all wet).  That's exactly how it's done with a real analog hardware mixer.

ohhey


A reverb effects is not a "group" type buss.
 
 
Well it's not necessarily a group type buss. But, once I have the verb dialed in for each track the way I want it, and the volume levels established relative to one another, I can still control the overall volume of the group with that same buss rather than tweak each track volume individually. Perhaps that technique springs from my ignorance, but it works for me