When mixing in the studio, you can route audio from different instruments all over the

place, and the channel you route the audio to is known as a bus.

The more you mix, the more you find yourself putting different passengers on different buses

like the world's most musical transit authority.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music.

I'm your host Kirk Hamilton, and I'm so glad you've joined me to talk about music on

the effects bus, music on the sub mix bus, and of course, music on the all-seeing,

all-knowing master bus. Strong Songs is not supported by ads.

Strong Songs is not supported by sponsors. Strong Songs is supported by you,

each and every one of you who has made a donation or become a patron of the show,

you can find PayPal and Patreon links in the show notes.

Thanks to everyone who supports the show.

On this episode, I've got so many listener questions just crying out for an answer,

and I'm going to answer as many of them as I possibly can

within the running time of a single episode.

There's a lot of ground to cover, and our time on this earth is limited,

so let's put on our headphones, open up the inbox, and get to it!

Before we get started, I wanted to make a public service announcement about music lessons.

I've mentioned this in a recent newsletter I wrote, but it's something I've been

evangelizing about to anyone and everyone who will listen, and you're all listening right now,

so you get to be evangelized to by me.

So for the past couple of months, I've been taking guitar lessons.

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