Mix Routing

Time to put in work. What’s up everyone, hope you guys took those basics of a mix session from last week and started using them to your advantage. This week we are going to talk about routing. Routing is all done in the DAW by sending instruments to one track called a Bus. Why would you want to do that? When you set all your levels to either all your drums or instrumentation of the track you probably want to leave them set. You don’t want to move each individual sound every time you want to make an adjustment in the drums or instrumentation. When you bus all your drums to one track you have total control over all the drums with one fader. Here is what it looks like. The steps to do this is selecting all your drums and go to the output select an unused bus like this. Side note when getting ready to select the bus make sure each instrument is highlighted and hold option + shift and select the bus. This is so all the tracks will go to the bus at one time or else you will have to do it individually.

Next create an AUX track and select the input to the same bus you put at the output of the drums. I usually Label it Drum Submix. Meaning all your drums are on this one fader.

Now all your drums are routed to this track and this controls all the drums instead of individually. Mixing is an important part of the entire track and this helps with only 2 faders instead of every fader that I have for each instrument. Now Auxiliary tracks are not only used for routing groups of instruments together. They are also used for processing and dynamics, which I will explain next week in a more, detailed blog post. Try this out and let me know if this helps with mixing your track. That’s all for today Mix Master Rozay out!