Buses are what put the “mixing” in mixing consoles.
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Want to use this image for something else? Great! Click it for the link to a high-res or resolution-independent version.“The most common destination for a channel’s signal is a bus. Buses are really what make a mixer a mixer: They’re signal lines meant to carry and combine a number of individual channel signals fed into them.”
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