As you can tell by the post location I am deep into this series. As an educator myself, and a long-time user of Logic, I am continuously amazed by your incredibly thorough, detailed and insightful presentation. The depth of your comments about process, combined with the specifics and demos of the actual operation of each of the different facets, screens, plug-ins, key commands, tools, etc., along with tips and observations on limitations of Logic, combined with your matter-of-fact layed-back approach have made a huge and lasting impression. I have soaked much of it in as a dry sponge takes in water. Consuming this series has inspired me. Thank you for all your hard work.
I'm very fortunate to have found MusicTechHelpGuy 4-7 months into my producing journey haha!!!! Helped me get a decent understanding of Logic/mixing fast! Watching this dude is like a free education! I don't know if some of the RU-vid commenters are trolls but on this guy's videos I've read "I've been going to music school/university for 2 years and I have learned more from this man" multiple times. I wonder how much money I would have spent to obtain this knowledge from schooling haha!!!
@Nathan LeRoy If you use the reverb only as a plugin, you almost have no control of it, beside within plugin. If you place it as a bus, then you can easily EQ, compress, noise gate, add FX and so on on it. You will have a total control of it, and automation will be much easier. Usually we do the same in a live context and a analog mixer : you send your voice to aux 1 ; aux 1 goes to reverb device which returns in a track ; you can then control your reverb with this track (EQ, fader level...). If you need more reverb on your voice, just send it more to aux 1.
Thanks so much for this amazing, amazing series of Logic Pro X tutorials. The package is enormous and your information is so helpful! It has saved us hours of hard slog. Cheers Mate from Glenn & Dave.
Excellent work. Wonderful Mix and great resulting sound. I'm a beginner with Aux Channels and was wondering if you would do a lesson on Automating effects in an Aux channel... I see so much potential with that but don't know how to use it yet... very confused on it, but I've heard it can be done, adding variation to effect to aux without affect volume.
What exactly is the main difference between bussing your tracks through sends vs bussing them through "output". Probably a very simple answer and I'm just oblivious, but any feedback is appreciated!
Nathan LeRoy when u change the output(route) it’s literally just creating a path for that sound to the desired buss same thing u hear on your track is the same thing you’ll hear on that send. When you use the send you can adjust how much of that sound you’d like to have sent to your bus so instead of putting reverb on your whole sound you can put it on an adjustable amount hope that helps
Warren Huart was talking about panning a doubled guitar part and then sending the left guitar to a reverb panned hard right and sending the right guitar to the left reverb. I assume the only way to do this is to choose a different bus/aux for each guitar?
I just tuned in to your channel. Great stuff. Why would you put separate EQ, Compression and Deessers on every vocal track? why not put them in the "Lead" vocal Aux Mix channel and also on the "Backup" vocal Aux Mix channel? Also, most people set effects on bus sends to 100% wet. Any reason for not doing so? Thank you
Hey I have a question: Is there a possibility in Logic pro X to move automations on a bus channel (Aux) with regions? So can a project in total shift by several bars? (there is the possibility to move regions and the associated automations on the tracks) but also the bus automations at the same time? Would be really happy about an answer !!
Josh, Could you explain why Logic instantiates both a short and long reverb when making a software instrument. What is the purpose, and how to handle???
Rebecca Walker they’re just trying to be helpful thinking you might want to use them. You can rename and put different plug ins on them if you’d like or try them out!
Wonderful explanation of pre and post (fade, pan). I think I finally understand it. One tangential question - and if you have another video that explains this, please let me know. I see that you had all of your volumes on your vocal tracks brought down somewhat. I take it you must be recorded at a pretty high volume? I'm asking because the one part of my mixes I struggle with are the vocals - I am aiming for that "floating above the mix" sound of the vocal but they tend to get muddied within the mix. Any advice you can offer would be great! What an amazing series of videos. You are highlighted on the Logic Pro X users page on Facebook.
Hey Dude! Another day, another question: At 9:35 you start soloing out the Vox Verb track, I tried to do it on my "Example Track" and I don't get any sound. Just like you, I have a Vox Mix and a Vox Verb track, and my mixer is set to the right input / output, also created a sends for the Vox Verb, like on the screen at around 9:35. What I noticed is, that you have a CAPTAUX track and a CAPTOUT track - what are those for? Maybe I've missed it, if you already explained it in a previous video, even tho I started from the beginning... (NOTE: I use a small Focusrite USB sound interface and ONLY Studio Headphones!) As always thanks in advance for helping us all out! Really appreciate it! :) Cheers
Hi hope you're doing fine 👍👍 I love to watch yours videos always 👍 I have a question that's, For many years i didn't use my rme interface ( baby face ) But just i connected to do a mix by use of Rme total mix fx but i couldn't get the exact output means ( i don't know how to get output of RME total mix FX in mixing and mastering, if it's possible plz help me. ( Hope you may help me and also many RME users are unable to use RME Total mix FX in logic Pro ) It's easy to get output but it doesn't sound same after getting final out and playing in any-other players like in a car or another studio etc etc. ( And also don't know to use the loopback option in RME Total Mix FX ) please help me 🙏😁
Here's a question: Does sending (bussing?) one instrument to an aux track (and its FX) use less CPU processing, vs. adding that same FX onto the original track/channel itself? Or does it make any difference in this case eg. one-on-one instrument to FX scenario? Hopefully the way I'm asking this isn't too confusing. THANK YOU
I believe the scenario you described would use the same amount of CPU. Its when you bus multiple tracks to an effect (ex. Reverb) rather than installing reverb on every track that you save CPU.
Thanks for the great video. How would I be able to pan the reverb.. say if I have a guitar panned left, but want the reverb to bounce right? Would I have to create another separate aux to apply that separate pan? Thank you
You could set it to post-fader (which would be pre-pan) and then pan your aux track right. The only issue is that then all your sends associated with that aux track would also have the reverb panned right. I'm pretty sure the only way to do it is to have a separate aux specifically for the reverb on that one track.
so what's the difference between sending the individual channels to an aux for reverb and adding the reverb in the bus channel after grouping them? Thanks. :)
Can you explain the reason why your vox tracks outputs are sent to bus 7 and not stero, and also, when should you set your track input to stero for vocals please
Awesome series. One problem I’m having is that ‘post pan’ isn’t working for me. Whatever I do the reverb is always center (or corresponding with the verb aux channels pan rather than the main audio channels). Any ideas? I definitely have my bus settings set to post pan on individual tracks. I’m working with mono audio.
Hello, thx for the video, very helpful. I just have one question, I didn't really understand why you don't send the entire signal of your song to the reverb bus and only -10dB ? Could you or someone explain it to me a bit more ? ^^' Thanks !
in pro tools i can choose in the aux send strip the pan and for example have a voice in the right and send it to the aux reverb to the left. how do i do that in logic?
Will putting compression on each individual channel drain a lot of CPU power? I know its good to use sends for reverb phase and other like so effects but does compression or eq need to be bussed? By the way thank you for this video!
Double A you’ll waste a ton of cpu. Send all drums to one aux, all lead vocals to another, background to another, Adlibs, guitar whatever it is. If they’re going to get the same compression send them to the same send. It works just as well and wont make ur computer work as hard
When I use a plug in on my vocals and create the Aux track as directed, I get a delay in my vocals, almost as if it has moved the wave form over a few seconds off than the timing of the original recording. What can I do to fix that?
When I try this specifically with my drums, I tend to have my drums in a group like you have here. On that group, I'll have the drums compressed. If I have a separate Aux for my drum reverb like you have here, I get a weird phase issue if there are plugins on my drum bus. So for example, I have a snare that's sent to Bus 7 which is my drum bus where all my drums live. I have an analog compressor plugin on Bus 7. I have Bus 8 that is my drum verb with the out to the stero bus. If I send my snare to Bus 8 with the output set to Bus 7, I get phasing. Any tips on how to avoid this?
i might have missed something and i know this vid is old but when i send all my vocals to aux track, put reverb on them and turn the bus send to what you have in your video ' about 16 or 10 depending on wether its main or backing' i lose all my volume and have to turn the send to 0 to turn the vocals up and it still has reverb and sounds good but why is mine different newer version?
Dude when I use certain drum kits they have a shitload of plugins already in use...When composing a beat should I just turn all of the plugins off and then when it comes to the mixing aspect go about turning them back on in the correct order?
Hernan Cortes Unfortunately, a lot of the new LPX kits have too much processing, and pre made Auxes. I usually turn most of that off, write what I want, and then mix it my own way.
When I send an instrument track to a reverb bus. I am still getting audio from the instrument track. even though the send knob is turned all the way to the right. so how do i get a 100% wetsignal
A send for reverb essentially splits the signal in two -- the track itself has the dry signal, the bus/aux has the wet signal. If you just want a 100% wet signal (I'm assuming for a musical effect or ambience or whatnot) Just put the reverb directly on the channel and blend it to 100% wet. If you're using space designer make sure the dry slider is all the way down, and the reverb slider is all the way up.
Ah at first i thought the track was dry and the buss was dry +reverb, but i get it now! Thanks for the response and the tutorials! :) Greetings from Holland
I noticed you got a patreon. I was wondering if you could add some rewards for pledges people make. for example if you pledge 10/ dollars a month you will give personal feedback on one track per month? This would make it more engaging for people (and me) to donate. :)
+Drew Pirt The pre-delay just emulates how large the room is. IE the time it takes for the first reflection to hit a "surface" and come back to your ear. I wouldn't say it's a requirement for vocal verb. Just depends on how ambient you want it to sound.
He wanted to maintain the dry signal along with the wet, and control the amount of wet. Putting it on the submix would not have created that separation.
