One other feature of VCAs is when muted will silence all sends going to other buses that are not under the control of whatever the assigned bus is. I use three VCAs for muting Vocals, Music, Beat, and if they are sharing FX sends such as Reverb or Delay, just muting the bus you will still hear the FX sends, whereas muting a VCA will totally silence everything assigned to the VCA.
Exactly! And if you solo a BUS (let's say the BUS sums 8 drum tracks) you can't hear the individual sends (say you send just the snare to a plate reverb for example). The sound with the BUS soloed will be bone dry (well, if you've put reverbs as inserts on a ch it will be heard). BUT if the drum tracks are in the same VCA group and you solo that VCA you get to hear all individual sends. AND this is where I think Logic's "in between" solution is both genius and confusing is that if you create a track stack (summing stack!) it passes audio as a BUS...AND...the solo funkction will act like if it was a VCA... got me?
I wish every video explaining things in Logic was like this one. 10/10 concise, easy to listen to and understand. No wasted time talking about unrelated BS or reiterating things that have already been stated. Thank you
Amazingly helpful explanation! On point, no blah, just sound information! Having a memory like a sieve, I came here two or three times already. Thank you!
Thank you Sean for making that so much easier to understand. It has baffled me for quite some time. Now I have a much better understanding, thanks to you. :)
That was AWESOME!!! Thank you brother. You are helping to lift the veil of ignorance and unfounded fear of recording one video at a time. May you live to see the marriages of your children’s,children’s children! ✌️
All that agree, please let me & MTHG kno: I think all of MTHG’s vids are best in class, and there is a lot of great posters out there! He’s certainly the Beatles of explaining Logic. Its an art form he’s mastered. It’s him, I bold underscored line, everyone else follows. Thank you, so very much, for all you do, and don’t let Yoko be a disruption:)
This video answered a few questions I've had about controlling volumes of groups of tracks easily, without summing them. I've been trying to set that up easily so that I can quickly bring a single mix element/track a few dB above the rest of the mix to hear it in context, but a little more clearly, for adjustment. Now that'll be extremely quick and simple to toggle! Thanks for all your videos - they've helped me get to the music faster.
Your videos are absolutely the best in terms of clarity and I always use them as my first (and often) only port of call when I want to learn a new feature in Logic Pro. I always recommend them to my high school students too, and invariably they agree with me. Many thanks for the excellent service you provide!!
Excellent vid, I knew some of this stuff but hadn’t heard it all explained so concisely. I need to utilize more of these tricks to streamline my workflow.
This is so useful. I knew all of it except the VCA stuff so thank you for clearing it up for me. Now I feel like I have complete control of the mixer :)
Superb!! Thanks so much for this. One other thing that is handy with VCA’s is using them to control the overall mix volume for tracks that have volume automation. So much better than editing the automation parameters.
Very helpful!! Thank you! I love the idea at the end of using bus grouping in combo with VCA subsets of the bussed tracks. Very thorough, clear and quick instructional vid!! Great work!!
thanks for every video!!! we are releasing our album soon and we recorded it ourselves and i learned logic from your tutorials... so a huge thanks goes to you!! 🤩
Great video, I learned these differences the hard way! I use summing stacks for more or less everything to group drums, vocals and guitars and put different effect plugins on busses so I can use them anywhere.
Thanks, I definitely feel I understand VCAs and groups more now. Giving logics convenience with summing stacks I don't really feel the need for groups and VCAs but I know that when it comes time to work on a desk it will be valuable to know. Thanks!
Seriously dude, awesome content here. Subscribing because you helped me understand what I consider to be a CORE concept of mixing. Much love, keep up the great work.
Weird compliment but yeah, Your voice is the most pleasing to ears compared to any of the tutors I've heard over youtube! I can listen to your voice and watch tutorials for hours and not get irritated lol
Josh your awesome - I have learned so much in a short time from you. I actually feel like I am becoming an audio engineer . I am a drummer , guitarist , composer and my recording's are sounding very good.
