AUM Signal Routing Question (Sends affecting volume level)

JoshuaRex

Novice McNovicehead back with another brain buster - I have an FX bus loaded with Audio Damage Replicant 2 and Dubstation. Is there a reason why the affected channels would be getting louder by turning up the send faders, based on what you’re seeing here?

I know technically I’m sending the signal to the fx bus which might explain the volume increase but I guess I’ve seen some examples where this wasn’t the case, and that’s what I’m trying to achieve.

JoshuaRex

Should I be sending the signals I want to drown to their own bus and mix dry/wet?

Mark B

Set the Replicant fx mode (bottom right) to Send.

wim

I don’t understand the screen shot. You have bus G feeding Replicant 2 and Dubstation. But you don’t have anything going to bus G. So, what is going through those FX? I can’t see anything.

You’re sending Troublemaker to bus H, through FAC Transient and Rough Rider, straight to the master. So, of course raising either of those faders (Bass or Master) is going to affect the volume level. Either you’re putting more into the channel through Bus H, or you’re putting more out of the channel, depending on which fader you move. From what I can see here, moving the FX channel fader should have no effect because nothing is going there. Or, is there something off screen?

You’re description of the problem isn’t consistent with that screen shot, so I can’t guess at any kind of an answer.

If you’re thinking of a traditional “Send” where you send part of a signal to a channel that has something like a reverb or delay on it, and you didn’t want to increase the volume of the “dry” signal when you turn up the FX fader, then you would do it like this:

• Put Troublemaker on a channel.
• Add an FX channel with a Bus input (say, G)
• Put effects that have a dry/wet control (this is important) on this FX channel. Make sure that the control is set to 100% wet (no dry signal)
• Put an AUM bus-send FX on the Troublemaker channel
• Don’t send the output of the Troublemaker channel to bus G. This should continue to go to the main mix.
• When you turn up the bus-send level, you’ll push more into the FX channel, but you’ll only get the effect part of the sound out of the FX channel.
• If you turn up the fader on the FX channel you’ll get more of the wet signal, but no increase in the dry signal.
• If you turn up the fader on the Bass channel, you’ll get more of the “dry” signal, but the FX level will be untouched.
• (Note: this assumes the bus-send is pre-fader. If it’s post fader, then the amount of the FX will increase/decrease as you change the Troublemaker fader.)

Here’s one example:

Note the Dry/Wet controls on the FX

wim

The equivalent of 100% wet in Replicant 2 is to set the control at the bottom - left to “SEND”.

JoshuaRex

The problem I was having was happening regardless of whether FX mode was in "Send" or "Mix". I'll double check in a bit.

Troublemaker is inconsequential here as it's going to the master bus. The things I'm sending to the FX bus are an instance of Tardigrain and a signal split of Ruismaker FM. I understand the one screenshot didn't provide much context. I'll post more in a bit.