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Mixing with subgroups

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Mixing with subgroups

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Using subgroups of instruments in vocals is been a time-honored way to mix, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. In this video I'm going to show you the correct technique for using subgroups that works either in an analog or digital world. So the first thing to see is right now we have a Vocal subgroup and this has all of the vocals in it, we have an Organ subgroup and that's the subgroup of the high and low of the organ, we have a Drum subgroup and the drum subgroup has all of the drums plus tambourine in it. The only thing that isn't sub-grouped here is the Bass. The Bass is just a single channel by itself, but it's so important that we don't want to subgroup it with anything. Now finally what we want to do is group all the guitars together into one subgroup. So here is what we're going to do. I'm going to go to Track, going to say New we want Stereo and Aux Input. There is our Aux input. I'm going to call this GTRS. Now the next thing we have to do is select an input…

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