Using Two Independent Busses with Individual Effects and Master Effects

Let’s say you have decomposed a kick drum sample and want to use a distortion effect on the tonal component, add an equalizer to the noise component, and then want to compress the resulting combined signal.

Prerequisite

You have two layers, one containing the tonal and one the noise component of a kick drum.

Procedure

1. On the Bus Routing menu, select Serial 2.
2. Click in the first slot of the FX 1 bus and select the Distortion effect from the Distortion submenu.
3. Click in the first slot of the FX 2 bus and select the Equalizer effect from the EQ/Filter submenu.
4. On the Amp page for the tonal kick layer, turn the FX dial entirely to the left to send the signal to the distortion effect.
5. Adjust the amount of distortion that you want to apply to the body of the kick signal.
6. On the Amp page for the noise kick layer, turn the FX dial entirely to the right to send the signal to the equalizer effect.
7. Use the equalizer to shape the noise layer to your liking.
8. Click in the second slot of the FX 2 bus and add a Compressor effect from the Dynamics submenu.

Result

You can now compress the mixed signal of both processed layers.