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Microphone buses
As well as mic channels, when using BFD you need to be aware of the four microphone buses, which are ‘virtual groups’ of the
mic channels.
Ambience buses
The ambience buses allow you to approach mixing in BFD2 in the same way as a real drumkit recording. Even though BFD2’s kit-
pieces possess discrete ambience signals, this is impossible to achieve when recording a real drumkit, when any ambient mics
capture the sound of the whole of the kit.
Also, while you can manipulate each kit-piece’s direct mics as channels in the BFD2 mixer, there are too many ambience chan-
nels (three channels would be required for each kit-piece) to control each kit-piece’s ambience efficiently.
Therefore, the overhead, room and amb3 signals for all kit-pieces are each organized into groups called the ambience buses.
Please note that you can, in the kit-piece inspector, route the ambience signals to individual Aux channels on the mixer if you
wish. This facility is provided for advanced and experimental mixing applications. If you do this, you can still control the Width of
each ambience type using the Mic Tools panel in the Mixer page’s Utility panel.
Overhead
Room
Amb
The Overhead mic channels from all
Kit-Pieces.
The Room mic channels from all Kit-
Pieces.
The third set of ambient mic channels
from all Kit-Pieces.
Direct bus
There is a fourth mic bus, called the Direct bus, which represents the direct mic channels of all kit-pieces mixed together. This
does not have a dedicated channel on the mixer by default, although you can create one if you wish by adding an Aux channel
and routing all kit-pieces’ direct channels to it.
You can, however, control the level of the Direct Master bus using the Direct fader in the Kit page’s Mini-mixer section, or using
the Direct Master level control in the Mixer page’s Mic Tools panel.
How mic buses are used in BFD2
Mic buses are controlled via the Mic Tools panel, part of the mixer’s Utility panel. In this panel, you can control the level of the
Direct bus, as well as the Width and Distance of the ambience buses.
The ambience channels that exist in the Kit page’s Mini-mixer and in the main Mixer page should not be considered as mic buses.
This is because while ambience signals from individual kit-pieces can be routed to other aux channels, they are still considered
to be part of the ambience buses. They are still affected by the Width parameters in the Mic Tools panel, although for technical
reasons the Distance controls do not apply.