Buses, Sends and Aux

[Georgia_Boi]

What is the difference between all three. I pretty much know what a bus track is and how it works, but I never used the other two before. Maybe that's where I am going wrong here. Can someone please describe them to me. I also uses adobe audition if you know how to use that program.

 

[DaGSpotSoldier]

Posted up in your other thread...you might wanna ask to get this duplicate deleted.

 

[P. Casso]

An Aux and a Bus are the same thing (Aux Bus - Auxiliary Bus). A send is what it's called. When you route audio from a track to an Aux/Bus track you are "sending" audio. Sends are commonly used to create headphone mixes, effects/processing routing, re-sampling to another audio track or anything else that comes to mind.

Here is a link explaining this in Adobe terms.
Audition - Buses & Sends

 

[SafeandSound]

Here are the basics....

(Aux) Sends, channel based signal send, which will send a signal to a discrete location, (commonly a TRS output jack on a mixer) it would be commonly sent to an fx processor such as reverb, delay or chorus as examples and the returning signal from the fx (often pseudo stereo in nature) would be brought back into a set of faders on the desk so the "return" signal can be mixed in. Or the signal could return to a dedicated "Auxiliary return" a stereo set of inputs which are routable to the master stereo bus. (and often other locations)

Bus, often stereo in nature and often used via routing buttons on near the fader of the mixer.
Often used for grouping signals of similar origin i.e. drums, synths, guitars. This allows control of level
of a "group" of signals on 1 (or a L/R pair) of faders, keeping the instruments relative balance.

Aux is usually an abrieviation of " Auxilary send" as explained above.

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