The effect of soloing a track into an FX bus?

[EtherealEntity]

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[Pedantic Sound]

In Pro Tools at least, assuming the AUX track is solo isolated, soloing one of the tracks going to the AUX should cause the compressor to respond normally, but only to that track. If that makers sense.

[EtherealEntity]

If I'm understanding you right then you're agreeing with me - that it would be less compressed than it usually is, because there is less level going into the compressor.

I'd be surprised if there isn't a way to really hear what's going on, as I'm sure 90% of the time when we solo something it's for that reason and in my opinion it should behave as though you are automating the volume of all the other tracks down.

[dr_Jezz]

I think you're overcomplicating things - if you solo and only send one track to the 2bus compressor, the compressor will only react to that sound, because that's all it can hear. There's really no point in soloing to hear what is just happening to one track in the context of 2 bus compression, because it's what's happening to all tracks as they glue/meld together under 2bus compression that's the whole point. Volume automation or soloing makes no difference to the 2 bus compressor - it's just a circuit reacting to what ever it can hear.

[EtherealEntity]

Yeah - I totally understand that's not the context it's being used in. It does make sense to me.

I just thought it would make a lot more sense, when you solo something, to hear it as it is in the final mix. That just makes so much sense to me, and I feel that's how people would usually want to use that function - as opposed to automation and often muting which are 'musical' or part of the project. Of course not possible in an analogue domain or with a 'circuit' - I just presumed this may be the way DAWs were designed to work.

[dr_Jezz]

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[offki]

Originally Posted by EtherealEntity

Yeah - I totally understand that's not the context it's being used in. It does make sense to me.

I just thought it would make a lot more sense, when you solo something, to hear it as it is in the final mix. That just makes so much sense to me, and I feel that's how people would usually want to use that function - as opposed to automation and often muting which are 'musical' or part of the project. Of course not possible in an analogue domain or with a 'circuit' - I just presumed this may be the way DAWs were designed to work.

You could do this if it was a send and the sends were prefader. You could probably get it to work in ableton, but it would be pointless.