Stacey: If you want to compress a group of tracks, like background vocals for example, then insert the compressor on a bus that has the vocal tracks assigned to it. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Stacy Bleeks To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:33 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: panning confusion Gord? Are you serious about ----- Original Message ----- not setting up a bus for compression?ks to the same "bus with one type of compression. I know this saved some CPU processing I always thought it made those tracks come out sounding a little bit monified. So, would you recommend using one single compression effect for each trackk? Stacy . I have sent many trac From: Gordon Kent To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:19 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: panning confusion Hello: What kind of effects are you assigning to the sends? You should only use sends for reverbs and delay effects, including chorus and flange. You would not use them for eq, compression, gates, and the like. If you are, then you are feeding dry signal into the sends which will return in the middle by default. You could pan the send for a track, but there are other issues that are undesirable when using sends for these kinds of effects. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: HF To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 10:59 AM Subject: [ddots-l] panning confusion I have a project with multiple audio tracks. I am using multiple effects which I inserted on individual busses so I have multiple sends on tracks so I can have maximum control. One effect per buss. I have outputs from tracks sent to master, as well as all the different busses. Where I am getting most confused about is that the pannings on individual tracks do not work when the sends are on. If the sends are off I can pan at will. What am I missing or is this just normal behavior? HF