Hi Combo,
I haven't read the article, but regarding info in the book, I do talk about sends, buses and mains in the mixing chapter. A typical situation would be having a track with its output sent to a bus. The bus output would then be set to a master bus (where all signals for a project converge). The master bus output would be set to mains.
Now let's say that track is a drum track representing one instrument of the kit (snare drum) and you want to add reverb to it, but still have control over the dry snare signal. You could add a send to the track with its output going to a reverb bus (the reverb bus would have a reverb effect in its FX bin and its output going to the master bus). The track send would control the amount of wet (reverberated) snare and the track volume would control the amount of dry snare.
Of course, you could just add a reverb effect to the track itself, but using a bus in this situation is better because you can apply the same reverb effect instance to the entire drum kit, making it sound more cohesive. And each piece in the kit can have a varying amount of reverb.
This is just a basic example. Signal paths can be set up to be simple or complex, depending on what you need or want to do.
Thanks for reading my book!
Scott
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