Folder, VCA, and Sistered busses analysis

excited to check these out - test in the AM ! cheers

For some reason JS:tonegenerator is not working in this project on my laptop. very odd indeed. So if this happens to anyone else, you can use a different plug in, or just put audio on the child tracks.

so... in the sistered method... you create those Thru tracks even when you don't need to because you could route the send directly to the parent folder 3-4 and 5-6 channels. But this way.. you have like a virtual track with the name of the FX and it is easier to select or drag the send to it.. right? Interesting.. I never thought about doing it.

This project could do with updating a little 1 54 wave files that need leaving offline (Remove them) 2 Split the project into 3 projects so it is less overwhelming 3 Do not lock track controls (This will confuse some people who do not use locking) That being said.... I see little usefulness in the sistered method for me personally, all i see is some way to not have to open the routing window, with no other advantages, I have zero problem with opening the routing window and less tracks uses less resources and is easier to look at, again this is for me personally. VCAs i will not even discuss really VCA can not exist inside a software application, it is either DCA or VVCA, 1s+0s do not equal voltages (And yes i use VCAs all the time) Am i saying the techniques people have used over the years with VCAs are not good, erm no and i don't think anybody has ever said that once in this forum, but lets get it properly named and discussed ;)

well its VCA-style automation anyhow... mebbe we could call it simply "group automation" and "group automation master" for the master...

Working on mix tonite and pulled out the whole bag of tricks... :D I had Justin's JS VCA plugs set up so that I can trim the gains of the snare bottom and of a delay with the Snare top volume automation. I then ended up running the outs of all the drum tracks, bass, and guitars PRE_FX (so no compression) into ch. 3/4, and the vocal busses post fader into channel 5/6 of the Drum Folder, which then got sent to a room convolution reverb. 3/4 was sent post fader, 5/6 was sent prefader to the verb. So the level of the vocal send to the room convo. was constant, but the music was trimmed by the drum folder.

just discovered one thing in the prefader send Fx1 thru... doesn't seem to have the same amplitude in the folder meter as the post fader.

This must be the pan law. Is this the same rpp? I'm pretty sure I set the folders to 0.0, but the children are at 2.5 (which is my default). So, the post fader send is effected by the pan law, where the pre fader is not. check it though, I could be wrong.

Very clever James, thanks for sharing. :)

Hey James, Could you explain why you've used the v3 panning here please? I'm not really understanding what problem that is solving. Cheers.