A Magic Mix Template Thousands of Pros Now Use

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This video shows how to build a professional mixing template from scratch, using techniques including busses/bussing, input and output routing, and shares some mixing tips and tricks using signal flow to set up your mix session for success. This is demonstrated inside of Pro Tools, but the techniques for the template will translate into any DAW. Along with session setup, Alex covers sends and returns for reverb, delay and effects, bus compression, and more!
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[@Fibonacci_Alpha]

I have bus’s, aux, and sends in my template plus the analog emulation (Consoles and Tape Machines) + separate Parallel compression tracks in my template. sometimes I feel like I got the ultimate template.

[@RichRobinson]

I use a fuck-tonne of buses. My template is surprisingly similar to this except I have buses within busses - Bus inception, if you will. I have a "BASS" bus, but within that may be Moogs, sub tones and bass guitar. All the bass guitar tracks go to a BASS GUITAR bus, so I can process that stuff globally without affecting everything else that's heading to the master BASS bus along with it. If someone wants stems, every self contained instrument bus can be printed with ease, without any weirdness that comes with sharing global effects. We live in a world where we have the processing power to negate sharing a reverb amongst 80 instrument tracks. No two instrument groups share FX; everything is self contained within the corresponding instrument bus. Good luck managing a large session/project when things aren't grouped, colour coded and labelled in a way that makes it manageable to navigate around. The game-changer and most recent addition to my template is having all the vocal sub-vocal buses (verse vocals, chorus vocals, gang vocals etc) going to master vocal bus and the same for instruments. The benefits of an INSTRUMENT and VOCALS bus before they hit the MIX bus are numerous. A big one is the ability to side-chain the instruments off the vocals as well as making subtle processing to either bus if needed. It's great for flexibility, session management, soloing, general monitoring and as mentioned before - printing stems and different elements of the mix with EASE. Routing and gain staging are (arguably) far more important than the plugins you're using if you know what you are doing. A lot of "pro" youtube audio people clearly lack a solid grasp of both nut neither are particularly exciting or "sexy". I implore anyone reading this to consider the content of this video and I can assure you that you workflow will improve greatly from exploring the use of using buses this way. It really pays to evolve your working template to best suit your workflow.

[@audioedges]

@@RichRobinson well said! Thanks for this comment! I agree with this philosophy, it works for me really well.

[@marlowdurden5330]

I don't understand what is the point of an Instrument Buss, when their is an MIX BUSS ? I Don't understand this. Also I wanted to ask about some console Emulation on the indivdual tracks for that console sound . Everything is fine , just that one buss ( Indtrumental Buss) .

[@audioedges]

Thank you! The Instrumental Bus allows for you to add bus processing on the instruments individually, and the vocals individually from each other as a whole, before hitting the Mix Bus. Sometimes I'll have a plugin or two on just the instruments, and then finish the processing of instruments and vocals together on the Mix Bus. Sometimes I won't have anything on the Instrumental Bus at all, which then is same as going straight through to the Mix Bus. Essentially, it's just an extra step of flexibility if you need it before you sum everything together, and can also be helpful when bouncing versions. Hope that helps :)

[@marlowdurden5330]

@audioedges : Just trying to understand what was your purpose for that Buss