Bus Force is just what we need for this.īus Force is Arturia’s new bus processing plugin and it’s a doozy. It’s time to turn up the heat and make this collection of sounds into a hot and tasty meal. We’re loving all of our sounds but as a mix, it’s still a cold salad. Notice how it not only improves dynamics but also adds air and depth. Here’s our drum bus before the Comp Diode-609:Īnd with. Remember, it’s all about what sounds good to you and what works in the mix. We also go with the fastest release (here called Recovery). However, we like the way it sounds at the fastest setting, Fixed (which is 3ms). The rulebook says that we don’t want to set the attack too fast or we’ll lose our transients. We’re hitting it hard but only the peaks. We settle on a threshold of about -14.0dB but a ratio of 6:1, the heaviest it has. We going for a fairly aggressive feel but we also don’t want to nuke our drums. Let’s use it in L/R mode to get our drums jumping. It’s a two-channel comp that can be run as dual mono channels, stereo, or mid-side. One of the new bus processors in FX Collection 2 is Comp Diode-609, a version of the Neve 33609 compressor. Now that our drums are all set, let’s group them into a bus and use processing to help them congeal together. With a gentle boost of the highs at around 4.1kHz and a bit in the mids, as well as plenty of input drive, it breathes a lovely amount of air into our top loop.Īnd together with the kick and percussion loop: Neve is legendary in the world of recording, and for very good reason. It’s an emulation of the Neve 1073 microphone preamp. We put Arturia’s Pre 1973 on the channel. There are a number of ways to do this but let’s use a mic pre, which doesn’t get nearly enough love in in-the-box productions. ![]() ![]() We’d like to brighten it up and make it pop. Remember when mixing, you need to consider sounds in terms of the mix, not just individually. The sample, ‘hn_top125_dirtytop.wav’, sounds great right out of the gate but is clashing a bit with the percussion loop from step 1. For our first one of this mix, we’ll use a mic preamp emulation to sweeten a percussion top loop. There are many different ways to process a bus or stem. Grab your chef’s hat and let’s get cooking with heat. With bus processing, we can go from this flat mix: ![]() As always, click any image to see a larger version. All of the stems in this tutorial came from Splice’s sample pack, House Nation. Let’s use those as well as other goodies from the collection to add depth and sparkle to a house mix. Bus processing is the heat of your mix.Īrturia have recently updated their mammoth FX Collection to version two and added some new bus processing tools. But with a soup, with everything heated together, the end result becomes more than the sum of its parts. With a salad, which is served cold, you can taste each ingredient separately. ![]() By using plugins across an auxiliary bus – whether that be drums, vocals, or master bus – and processing everything together, you can help meld a lot of separate sounds into one. There are many ways to achieve this but one of the easiest is with bus processing. When mix engineers talk about the final five percent, they mean that extra polish and sparkle that elevates a mix from good to great. We show you how to take your mix from dull to sparkle with bus processing plugins from the new and improved Arturia FX Collection 2.
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