Genuine post fade solo ?

Sorry, I'm not offering a tip, but asking for one. Does anyone know how to solo a track without hearing it through the plugins on the master fader ? I finished a mix yesterday where I had a compressor over the mix bus. I wanted to hear tracks without the mix bus compression when soloed, but this meant bypassing the mix compressor then soloing the track and doing it all in reverse to get out of solo.

O.K. I did some experiments in Protools and I've come to the conclusion that there is no way to achieve Post fade solo. Protools ony has what I know as solo in place. This is not that much of a problem, I only rarely put a comp' etc over my mix and it's usually when I'm happy with the mix anyway but, it is a suprising omission from Protools's mixer when you think about it. All proffesional analogue mixers have provided this function ( as well as pre fade solo in some cases ) for as long as I can remember. Why should we loose such a time tested function on Protools ? There really is so much more that could be done with Protools's solo function. I would love a solo mode that is post fade, but pre plugins. This would mean (for example) that if you used the shelving filters from Filterbank, the parametric mids from Q4 and a compressor after that, you could with one click compare the raw track with how you've proccessed it.

O.K. I did some experiments in Protools and I've come to the conclusion that there is no way to achieve Post fade solo. Protools ony has what I know as solo in place. This is not that much of a problem, I only rarely put a comp' etc over my mix and it's usually when I'm happy with the mix anyway but, it is a suprising omission from Protools's mixer when you think about it. All proffesional analogue mixers have provided this function ( as well as pre fade solo in some cases ) for as long as I can remember. Why should we loose such a time tested function on Protools ? There really is so much more that could be done with Protools's solo function. I would love a solo mode that is post fade, but pre plugins. This would mean (for example) that if you used the shelving filters from Filterbank, the parametric mids from Q4 and a compressor after that, you could with one click compare the raw track with how you've proccessed it.

You can always have an audiosuite plug-in loaded all the time bypassed,and audition in every track you want via out 1-2.(you must asssign the session to a couple of other outs,though). Also,you may check this:if you assign a stereo track to multiple outs (say out1-2 and 3-4)and you solo it,where you hear it from?If it's not going to 4outs simultaneously,then you have a solution.(i don't know,cause i work with 5.0.1version.It doesn't allow for multi-assignment) If it does,you can try this for sure:send all tracks to,say,out1-2(directly),and at the same time,to a buss,into an aux track,and then to out3-4.Put your master plug-ins to a master track assigned to 3-4(or in the aux track itself). So when you solo a track(and unmute out1-2),you'll hear it only via out1-2(bypassing any master plug-ins),because the aux track is muted.

Odysseys The Idea of using a spare pair of audio outs as your Solo bus is very good. Great for my TDM not so good for my Mbox. Thankyou Allstaar.