UNDERSTANDING: Bus mixing
Creating a bus channel allows you to process your drums or vocals as a whole, adding that all-important ‘glue’ to your mixes
FM|KNOWLEDGE
All DAWs allow you to create what’s called a group channel or bus, which is essentially an empty channel. By routing the output signal of several individual channels to this single group, you can process that collection of signals as one. This, for example, allows you to funnel lots of individual drum channels to one overall ‘drums’ group, or multiple vocal layers to a master ‘vocals’ bus. You can then adjust the volume and pan of the group, as well as apply processing.