Bus confusion

[Cobus Prinsloo]

I thought my mix was perfect until I noticed that sound from my Drums bus feeds into my Vox bus! The open EQ is from my Vox bus, but the sonic spectrum on display is coming from my drums.

I assume this is happening because both my Drums bus and Vocals bus have sends to the same Reverb bus to ensure that they share the same space. Is there a better way of sharing the same reverb among different buses?

[Amberwolf]

Don't send the reverb back to the orignal track or bus.   Send the reverb in parallel (just the wet signal, no dry) to the master bus (or whatever mixdown-busing you use before that).

So your structure would have your various tracks going to their various type-buses, and each track or bus would have it's send to this reverb bus. 

The reverb bus *and* the other buses all then feed your mixdown or master bus, etc.

 

That said, if your mix is exactly the way you want it, it doesn't matter what's "wrong" with the way the buses are setup, etc.  If it sounds like you want, it's done.  

Edited 1 hour ago by Amberwolf

[Cobus Prinsloo]

24 minutes ago, Amberwolf said:

Don't send the reverb back to the orignal track or bus.   Send the reverb in parallel (just the wet signal, no dry) to the master bus

Thank you, now for a potentially dumb question: how do I relay only the wet signal of Reverb directly to my Master bus?

[David Baay]

2 minutes ago, Cobus Prinsloo said:

how do I relay only the wet signal of Reverb directly to my Master bus?

I'm not exactly sure what you have going on because Sonar wouldn't  allow sending or outputting the reverb bus back to any source track as that would create a feedback loop, but the Reverb bus should Output to Master.