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I find myself (background is no formal education, mixing amateurly and just read forums/books) using group tracks as follows....for better or for worse, i think it developed out of convenience really...

for drums i tend to take the OH/room mics into one group track, 2 snare mics to another group track. from there i put on eq / comp and set up a send to reverb channel. kick/bass/guitar/keys usually i just put eq / comp /rev send on the channel itself.

my question is, can anyone point out any pros/cons for this method? it also saves cpu for less plugins than if i did plugs on each of the 4 OH/room mic tracks and for each snare etc.

also, what are people's thoughts about using one reverb channel and using different send levels for each part you send to that channel...which i find myself sending bass/guit/kick to rev at pretty low levels, snare group channel about mid on the send and the oh/room group channel a little more than the snares...all to the same reverb stereo channel and tweak the reverb from there.

can anyone point out any pros/cons for this reverb method? and the diff between that and like maybe several reverbs for different instrument types or what?

hopefully this isnt like some kind of no brainer topic that im shooting myself in my foot, being that i have no formal education :P

EDIT: i wish i knew how to delete this so i can repost in the proper forum! or if i could move the thread! :(