Subgroups/mixes

[dthgtr]

This may seem ridiculous to some the way I am going about this. I am making templates in my DAW (Sonar) and the way I am going about it is to
multitrack> subgroup/(mix) by kicks, snares, HH, toms, OHs + the remaining mics then to a stereo drum bus then to the master bus.

What I would like advice on, is this overworking it or are there real advantages to grouping this way?

Thanks

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[Henrik]

I don’t think it’s a bad idea, because when you mix into sub groups you have the option to glue the parts of the bus together (with compressors and other plugins). What you also could try is to create parallell compression with any of your buses to create more punch and attitude to the track.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[dthgtr]

Thanks Henrik,
Most tutorials show a submix to one bus per group of tracks (inst/vox/fx). I been trying to figure out (being a novice) how to emulate some of the mixer presets
in S2 as they are not set up for multiout. Plus, I have a wider variety of plug ins at my disposal.

Any other comments or opinions are certainly welcome.

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