Submixing with aux tracks

Like sends and returns, creating submixes is a fairly common signal flow concept…in the mixing world, and one you should be familiar with.…Submixes allow us to route a group of tracks into a single channel strip,…making group processing possible and simplifying track management and level…balancing over big mixes.…So, let's take a look at the drums in this session. And we can see that the Kick…and the Sub Kick are being routed to a mono bus.…Remember, a bus is an internal signal routing pathway inside of Pro Tools that…allows us to route tracks from one to another without exiting the system or…going out to our speakers or interface.…

So, I'm going to the Kick Bus, and then I have a mono aux track that's welcoming…the two signals--the Kick and the Sub Kick--in on that same Kick Bus.…So, what I can see here if I solo this track, is I'm combining these two…signals to a single track. And on that single track I have a common volume…control as well as common inserts and sends.…So, I'm actually EQ'ing the two kicks together as a submix.…