Kick-Bass- or Drums-Bus?

Music Production Music Tech Discussion
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I know there aren’t rules for “how to produce good music”, but… br
I often heard that all drums go to one bus to glue them. But also I heard often to send your kick and bass to one bus to glue them. So there’s the problem… If I think, that the drums do not sound perfect and need a bit of bus compressions , but also the kick and the bass, how do I solve this problem? I can’t send the Kick to 2 different busses at the same time. Hope you understand the problem… :slight_smile:

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They can be on separate buses but you can also send them both to the same glue compressor on another Aux channel, or at least you can in Logic, so i presume other DAWs are the same

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I know you can, but isn’t it strange to put the bass with all other drums in in the same bus to glue them?

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You only send the kick and the bass to the other bus, not all the drums.

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You didn’t get my point. I have to decide wether i will put my kick in one bus with my bass or in one bus with all drums. But I can’t glue the kick at the same time with the bass and all the other drums…

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If you work in Ableton you could try this:br
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Group the kick with the bass and compress this groupbr
Send the kick sound to a return channel with a compressor on it and use that return channel for all other drum tracks. Now this won’t litterally compress the tracks, but will compress the send signals together in the return.br
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Maybe that will get the sound you’re after?

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Well I work in Logic, but this should also work in Logic. It’s an option. But I see that that there isn’t a perfect solution for the problem. And that’s everything I wanted to know. :)br
But thank you for your help, I will try it…

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I believe when people talk about busing your drums and then busing your kick and bass they actually mean to bus your drums, minus your kick br
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so all drum elements minus your kick would goto one bus and your kick drum and bass will go to another bus. br
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basically treating your you low end kick + bass as one to glue them together and then your other drum elements and percussion as a separate to glue those sounds together.