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Seriously, though, there are no hard and fast rules.
The groupings tend to be for sets of things that are likely to need fading up or down en masse. Some consideration may have been given to instruments that require the same shared signal processing. Sometimes, signals get grouped together based on the frequency band(s) that each occupies. In the analogue era, some grouped signals might be sent to a buss with the intention of deliberately saturating the tape.
4 stereo subgroups:
1: Low pitched instruments- such as bass drum, bass, floor tom
2: Low mid instruments- electric guitars, snare, rack tom, some keys
3: Mid to high instrument- vocals, keys
4: High pitched instruments: cymbals, hats and anything else in the upper registers.
Each subgroup gets treated with EQ and compression, some of it quite heavily.
It is a good way of glueing together different instruments.
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It is worth checking out- it doesn't work in all situations- I've never done it with dance music, only rock and metal.
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Master channel far left, followed by 8 subgroups, then leave a space with fader down, follwed by tracks for subgroup 1, space, tracks for subgroup 2, space .. tracks for subgroup 8, space, aux bus 1, aux bus 2, etc..
Mostly parallel compression, distortion, reverb that multiple tracks can be sent to which add depth, density, snap, punch, attitude, whatever, to the mix.
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I tend to layer the kick and the snare, and that's why I give them their own subgroup. Ditto bass guitar. The frequency range on the subgroups are fairly similar, except for the rest of the drums which includes low tom and the hat/cymbals.
I am also adding some Nebula analogue console "fairy dust" on each subgroup, hence the need to split everything up.
My current iterations has:
1.) Vocals
2.) Instrument Bus
3.) Drum Bus
4.) Kick Bus
5.) Snare Bus
6.) Guitar Bus
7.) Bass Bus
8.) Misc Bus
Everything is routed so the drums/bass/guitar and misc go via the instrument bus, and similarly the kick and snare go via the drum bus and ultimately the instruments bus.