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title: Comparing Aux Sends and Subgroups
+menu_title: Auxes vs. Groups
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- <p>Auxes and Subgroups do share a common concept - they both provide a way for 1 or more tracks (or busses) to send their signal to a single bus so that common signal processing can be applied to the mix of their signals. </p>
-<p>An aux send leaves the existing signal routing to the main mix inplace, and is typically used to create a separate mix to send to (for example) monitors or headphones (for performer monitor mixes). </p>
-<p>Subgroups remove the original signal routing to the main mix, but create a new one that delivers the output of the subgroup bus to the main mix instead.</p>
-<p>The following two diagrams compares the signal flow when using subgroups and when using aux sends:</p>
-<h2>Subgroup signal routing</h2>
-<p><img height="400px" src="/files/manual/a3/images/subgroup_routes.png" alt="sub group signal routing" /></p>
-<h2>Aux send signal routing</h2>
-<p><img height="400px" src="/files/manual/a3/images/aux_routing.png" alt="aux signal routing" /></p>
+<p>
+ Auxes and Subgroups share a common concept — they both provide a way
+ for one or more tracks (or busses) to send their signal to a single bus so
+ that common signal processing can be applied to the mix of their signals.
+</p>
+<p>
+ <dfn>Aux sends</dfn> leave the existing signal routing to the main mix in place,
+ and are typically used to create a separate mix to send to (for example)
+ monitors or headphones (for performer monitor mixes):
+</p>
+<img width="300px" src="/files/manual/a3/images/aux_routing.png" alt="aux signal routing" />
+<p>
+ <dfn>Subgroups</dfn> usually remove the original signal routing to the main mix and
+ replace it with a new one that delivers the output of the subgroup bus to
+ the main mix instead.
+</p>
+<img width="300px" src="/files/manual/a3/images/subgroup_routes.png" alt="sub group signal routing" />