What is the proper way to use bus tracks? (reverb & compression)

[dubstepmastering]

there are NO rules , do what sounds good , i put reverb on my reverb , and delays on my delays
i send things where ever i feel like, im in cubase and its easy to bus things anywhere
the whole dub sound from jamaica was created by breaking the rules and pushing the gear they had at the time , e.g. delays with feedback set to 100%
experiment , you might come up with a new Technique & sound.

[F4ALLOUT5HELTER]

I use multi-buss setup. I buss all vox, drums and bass, transient heavy sources, and slow attack sources. Each get compression and gentle eq. To a master buss with compression. When I'm doing my reverb sends I usually like to send more of the bg vox to the reverb than the lead so I use a send on each vocal channel. I only use the buss send to reverb when I'm really happy with the buss mix and I don't want to mess with it. Drums usually get buss sent to the reverb and I filter the reverb to adjust the balance. Same thing with guitars.

[The MH]

Ok so I have a few questions since this is my first time using bus/sends in production. I'm in FL and I have my snare and hats going to a reverb send. Now I want to use a compression bus. I route all of the drums to the DrumBus track. I think I have it all set up right (i checked by adding a delay and it affected all drums). Now I notice that when I turn the DrumBus fader all the way down I still hear the original drums.

Okay heres my questions.
Is the sound being duplicated, or is there a wet/dry thing going on? When I move the fader on the bus, what is it controlling? Also i see the little knob on the drum bus that I'm guessing would be the 'wet/dry' knob. Turning it all the way up would remove all the dry sound correct?

[epotts06]

the fader controls your wet to dry ratio. The knob is the aux send, that is used to set to nominal level which should be zero. not sure how fl studio works but that should universal.

[likeapimp]

Yea, I think AA Doesn't have that option i been looking also. I got studio one and been looking for a way to import my songs in there to mix and keep everything on time