DAW Basics: Tracks, Buses, and Routing
The session-structure vocabulary every later mixing lesson assumes you already know — tracks, buses, sends, and where everything eventually adds up.
The session-structure vocabulary every later mixing lesson assumes you already know — tracks, buses, sends, and where everything eventually adds up.
Before EQ, compression, or any other processing decision makes sense, you need the underlying map they all get placed on top of: how audio actually moves through a DAW session. This is pure structure — no taste required yet — but every mixing lesson after this one quietly assumes you already know this vocabulary.
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