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Aux-send

Okay kiddo, so you know how when you listen to music, sometimes you want to hear more of one part than another part? Like maybe you want to hear more of the singer's voice than the guitar or drums?

Well, that's where aux-send comes in! It's a tool that lets you control how much of each part you hear.

Imagine you have a big mixing board in front of you with sliders on it for each part of a song: the singer's voice, guitar, drums, etc. Aux-send is like another slider that lets you decide how much of each part goes into a special "aux" channel.

You can then connect that special aux channel to something else - like an effects unit or another speaker system - so that you can hear only that part of the music through that other system.

So, with aux-send you can adjust how much of each part of a song you hear and send it to different places, allowing you to create your own perfect mix of a song!
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