Addictive Drums Manual - XLN Audio

The Bus Channel
A commonly used “trick” in drum mixing is to create a submix of chosen kit
elements (kick+snare+hihat for example), distort or heavily compress this
submix, and then introduce this back into the main mix at a lower level.
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The result is that you get the dynamics and punch of the “normal” cleaner main
mix, but at the same time a nice “crunchy” quality and sustain from the
compressed submix.
This effect can be easily achieved in AD. Just click the Bus Channel Label to
select the Bus channel, and you will notice that a Bus send panel appears on
top of the mixer:
Now you can easily create a submix and process it using the Bus Channel’s
Insert Effects!