Thanks. I missed this the first time around. The bump is appreciated.

AWESOME!!!!!!!

This is what I was looking for in another post. Thanks a million!

super!!! everything is working great. i agree with putting together a schematic of the ins and outs.

tom

how do i give a bump? or whatever the praise is?

I've just recently downloaded and been experimenting with the JA Mixing Template. It's definitely a fine piece of work. Thanks Jonas!

In the past, I've always set up my busses with effects and routed my individual tracks to them (as needed) and then sent the output of the busses to the Master. What is the advantage of using Sends (as in the JA Mixing Template) compared to the way I've doing it?

Thanks!

What is the advantage of using Sends (as in the JA Mixing Template) compared to the way I've doing it?

You can control how much of the signal you send to the effect. The way you are doing it, you send ALL of the signal to the effect, then use the effect's wet/dry control to control the ENTIRE level of effect on all the tracks you sent there. With sends, you set the effect to 100% wet, and send only as much of each track to the effect that you want. Its just a different way of doing it that offers greater control and flexibility.

OK. I understand. But either way, you can probably achieve the same (or similar) results. Correct?

Yes. But not really. Say you have 8 drum tracks. You want some reverb on them. So you send them to a bus "Drums", put a reverb you like on the bus, and set the level of the reverb. But what if you only wand a touch of reverb on the Kick, a lot on the snare, and a medium amount on the toms? With sends, you can choose how much of each track to send to the reverb. With your way, you would need multiple busses with multiple reverbs. Same if you had Rythm guitar you wanted a little delay on, and lead guitar you wanted gobs of delay. Just send less of the rhythm signal to the delay bus, and more of the lead. Technically, sure you can get the same sound doing it either way. But which is better on your system, 1 reverb that can get varying amounts from every track in your project to achieve a nice mix, or 7-10 reverbs to account for some tracks needing a lot, medium amounts, and very little.

ORIGINAL: jsaras

Hi Gang!

This is the day you've been waiting for! I have revised and expanded my free mixing template. There are more compressor settings, EQ settings, more reverbs, etc. It incorporates many of the effect settings that I've posted in this forum over the years as well as some ideas that I've borrowed (specifically, the stereo splitter routing). None of this is revolutionary, but it's nice to make the most out of what you have.

You can download the template from my signature.

Blessings,
Jonas

Hey Jonas.....

I just downloaded the mixing template so for a 'bump' here I say thanks for posting this for all to benefit by.

Jinga, thanks for elaborating.

This is interesting stuff and is likley to open a whole new approach to DAW mixing for me. I've used sends before in the hardware/analog world, but not so much in the DAW world. Thanks.

Thanks! Dissecting this will be a great Sonar learning tool for me.

Cheers,

Jef