stereo bus

Hey everyone,
Hope your mix week is well.

I found this article on subject and thought I would share:
http://brownbagazine.blogspot.com/2010/11/compressor-history.html

I am puzzled about where I should be applying my effects, and whether there is any detrimental effect to summing effects in serial. Let's say I have guitar, bass, and drum tracks, and that they benefit from some processing. Should I be treating them individually, say by soloing the track and adding effects there, or should I be adding reverb and compression to all of them in the stereo bus?

Hey everybody I was just wondering if somebody (I'm sure everybody can answer this for me) could tell me what a stereo bus is and what its used for?

Thanks

back again!

so ive been reading quite a few guides written by old school engineers and i see stereo bus coming up alot...and compressing stereo bus and all this jive...

How do you guys proceed when the stereo bus is "clipping"?
Lower each fader by the same amount?
Lower each fader by individual amounts?
Lower the master fader?

Anyone tried this and what do you think?

Just curious as to when other mixers start engaging stereo compression in the mix process.