# Routing sub events to a different mixer track than its parent.

**URL:** <https://qa.fmod.com/t/routing-sub-events-to-a-different-mixer-track-than-its-parent/13646>\
**Category:** FMOD Studio\
**Created:** [January 16, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/routing-sub-events-to-a-different-mixer-track-than-its-parent/13646 "2018-01-16T23:03:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bradgentle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Bradgentle](https://qa.fmod.com/u/Bradgentle)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2018, 11:03pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/routing-sub-events-to-a-different-mixer-track-than-its-parent/13646/1 "2018-01-16T23:03:39Z")

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Heya peeps,

Just wondering if there is a way of routing a sub event to a different track than its parent. When I have tried this, even if the sub event is just referencing the sub event from outside the parent and exists independently, it always plays in the same mixer track.

Cheers

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**Author:** ![richard\_simms](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/richard_simms/32/261_2.png) [@richard\_simms](https://qa.fmod.com/u/richard_simms)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2018, 11:32pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/routing-sub-events-to-a-different-mixer-track-than-its-parent/13646/2 "2018-01-17T23:32:36Z")

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Hi Bradley,

There isn’t a pretty solution to this, but here’s one you can use:

1. Create a return bus in your mixer
2. Add a send to this return bus on the master track of your referenced (sub) event, _before_ the volume fader
3. Set the send to 0db and set the event’s master track volume to -oodB (muted)

When you trigger the referenced event it should ignore the tracks of the event it is referenced in and go straight to the mixer.

Thanks,  
Richard