joey90405
I've returned. I have 4 vox tracks. I made a vox bus then I put the output (bottom of strip) to that bus. on that bus I inserted 2 effects. questions follow.
i'm still not sure of the sends. when the blue light is lit it's post fader. which fader is it, is it the main fader or the knob that's on the send.
Its the actual fader for that channel. The most common scenario for using a send pre-fader is for feeding a monitor or headphone mix. Most of the time you'll use post-fader sends. When its post fader, as the channel fader goes down, the amount of signal going out the send also goes down.
how do I blend the tracks with the bus with the FX on it?
Blend how exactly? Blending as far as the volume of each vocal track in relation to the other vocal tracks is done using the individual track faders. Blending as far as all the vocals in relation to everything else is done with bus fader (all vocals up/all vocals down). Blending as far as how much reverb vs dry signal is done using the wet/dry mix control on the reverb plugin. But here's the thing (which I believe gets into your next question). If you put reverb on the buss, you're going to have the same amount of reverb on all the four vocal channels more or less equally.
I want to put an effect on 1 vox track. and not have it effected by whats in the bus, do I simply change the output to the main?
If you want to have an effect on one of the vocal tracks but not the other three, an insert on the vocal channel itself is what you want to do. So you would put the effect in the effects rack of that particular vocal channel. Still keep the channel routed to the vocal bus. With the effect in the rack on that particular channel, only the vocals on that channel will be treated but that vocal track and all the others will be globally controlled by the bus fader, i.e. all vocals louder/all vocals quieter.