🎛 What Is a Bus? How To Use Busses & Track Stacks in Logic Pro | Logic Pro Tutorial

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Can we talk about the kick/808 in your intro song? Great sonics.

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Excellent tutorial! Your lessons are effectively simple and well explained.

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Crystal clear explanation. Much appreciated.

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As a beginner - this was so incredibly helpful. Thank you

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Glad you found the content useful Brian, thanks for watching!

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You have some of the best content i've come across on KZbin for Logic Pro related tips and "How To". Blessings to you and many thanks.

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[@ernietollar407]

Wow. I've been a professional musician for longer than u have been alive but this is a great free lesson which should really help me organise LOGIC projects! thanks for teaching an old dog new tricks! THANKS T.H. !

[@itstonyholiday]

Ha I'm not as young as I look 😉 But thank you for the kind comment, I really appreciate it. Best of luck with your journey using Logic Pro! Happy Holidays

[@NHollins2302]

Brilliantly explained Tony, Thank you!

[@itstonyholiday]

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[@avillageofvigils3749]

Thank you for refreshening my memory and cutting down on using my CPU! Hadn't a clue I could use stack tracks for bussing. Awesome video!

[@itstonyholiday]

Haha it's a constant battle with the CPU! Glad you enjoyed the video and found the content useful.

[@Genolexis]

So helpful, thank you

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Really appreciate this man!

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Hey man, hope your break has been good. Looking forward to your content again and wna say thanks for all the technical guidance I’ve got from your channel

[@itstonyholiday]

Appreciate all the support Sean 👍 here to stay this time. Thanks for watching, more content to come!

[@LADJINOLEAN]

Best explanation I’ve seen on this yet! Thanks dawg

[@itstonyholiday]

Really happy you found the content useful, thanks for watching!

[@jessemccommon5312]

Kota the Fiend lmaoo thank you for the great vids brother

[@itstonyholiday]

Hahah thanks for watching despite me being sus sometimes

[@rcketfuel7]

Thanks man this helped so much, been messing around with buses and track stacks recently but never had a full understanding. really appreciate this

[@itstonyholiday]

Happy you liked it! They’re such a power move when used properly. Thanks for watching and the comment 🙌

[@heydusky]

Great explanation of busses and how they work. Thanks for sharing this.

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[@tombaumhart1891]

Thanks for this video, it helps me as a beginner to learn more about Logic Pro

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[@WxstParkAve]

Great video my Guy!

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[@911aDay]

Gold man, thanks! 🔥

[@itstonyholiday]

Thanks for watching!! Really appreciate the comment

[@JulianHarris]

That was super helpful thank you. If you were to do a revision on this may I suggest you start with the manual bus scenario first? My use case is simple: "I have two tracks and I want to share the same reverb settings". The solution seems to be to create a new track in the mixer (Ctrl-N), ("Aux 20"), ensure it routes to Stereo Out, then change the two tracks to use Aux 20 instead of Stereo Out. The other section of buses still confuse me TBH.

[@itstonyholiday]

Thanks for watching Julian!

[@anthonwaar1635]

Man you are such a blessing! Thanks for your vids❤️

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[@powderedtoastman3093]

Another excellent vid Tony - Many thanks!!!

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[@jackparkesdrums]

Tony. Thanks so much brother! Very insightful tutorial. Literally nailed every question I had in my mind haha. Gratitude from Australia and happy 2022!

[@itstonyholiday]

Really happy you liked the content Jack. Happy new year to you and yours as well, I wish you the best in 2022! Thank you for watching!

[@mycn986]

Welcome back bruv

[@itstonyholiday]

Appreciate it my guy, here to stay this time. Thanks for watching + the support 🙌

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I needed this🙌

[@itstonyholiday]

Glad you found it useful, thanks for watching!

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The 🐐 is back

[@itstonyholiday]

Too kind bru. Just tryna make some content for yall Thanks for watching and the support

[@cassetteo]

I rarely use outputs on a source track, I only use busses

[@calneon6549]

Hey Tony Great to see you back! Any chance of a video showing you making a track from start to finish?

[@itstonyholiday]

Hey Cal, thanks for the kind words. Good to be back 👍 Yes. I do want to start making full beat making videos, just trying to find the best way to go about it as I usually take awhile to make a beat. But there will be some in the future, thanks for watching!

[@calneon6549]

Thanks Tony - looking forward to it! 👍

[@itstonyholiday]

Cheers Cal, enjoy your weekend!

[@patrickevanfleming3469]

I'm trying to take single track analogue recordings from the 90's, feed them into Logic Pro X and improve the sound quality. Do you know what that process is called? I can't find anything about this subject online. The only thing the internet talks about is how to make new digital recordings sound more Analogue. I'm trying to do the exact opposite. Any advice? Do you have any tutorials on that subject? Anything? Thanks

[@itstonyholiday]

Hey Patrick, I don't have any videos on this topic specifically. However what you're referring to could be put under the term of 'post processing', basically adding processing and FX to audio recorded externally. Best of luck!

[@patrickevanfleming3469]

@@itstonyholiday Thanks. I'm surprised there isn't more about. this subject online. The world is full of aging musicians with old analogue recordings. There doesn't even seem to be a name for it.

[@vycsh]

Stack Track; summing track is perfect to give it that glue before the master

[@LeeAndro]

Anyone? Help please! Let's say I wanted to send a panned effect (or any effect) using a bus which is already inside a track stack? What happens to the send effect (which is being bussed) of the individual track inside of the track stack? Does that that individual track get processed with the effects already inside the track stack or does it go directly to the send effect bus raw/with the individuals tracks plug-ins? I hope you understood this haha.

[@itstonyholiday]

Your wording is confusing so I'm not sure if I understand. Why would you send to a bus if it's inside a track stack?

[@LeeAndro]

@@itstonyholiday Let’s say I have three vocals inside a track stack. I then put a vocal chain on the track stack. Now let’s say I would like to pan one vocal right and the other left then apply a separate reverb/delay in the opposite direction of the panned vocals. Is there a way to send the panned vocals to the reverb/delay whilst still getting the effect from the vocal chain? Or will the the signal just go raw into the reverb/delay? I hope this is clearer.

[@itstonyholiday]

@@LeeAndro Yes much clearer, thank you. When you send a track to am FX bus, it assumes all of the effects from the track that you're sending from.

[@LeeAndro]

@@itstonyholiday So the effects from the vocal chain (of the track stack) would technically not be sent to the bus since all the vocal chain effects are on the track stack and are not on the individual track.

[@itstonyholiday]

@@LeeAndro When you send a track to am FX bus, it assumes all of the effects from the track that you're sending from, nothing else.

[@duskatdawn7]

Why is it that when recording vocals or anything logic overrides or even records over my already good recording so I lose perfectly good takes? This is after I start a pass at another part of the song. Logic arbitrarily creates other takes of a track I just made? And won’t let me delete it without deleting my good take? This is a big time waster please help. Also I place it on latency for recording and it unchecks itself there’s a demon in the program……

[@DeanScorch]

How would you then bounce tracks with effects if they're routed through a buss with the effects on, or in a track stack with a buss? I'm thinking if someone else was looking to mix the track and you want certain effects printed on the stems to send to mix engineer.

[@itstonyholiday]

Great question. And yes you answered it yourself, you have to export the bounced track of the stack. If you just do File > Export > Tracks, this won't include the FX busses, which a lot of the time is how people craft the sound they want.

[@powderedtoastman3093]

Q: What’s the best controller for live loops in Logic that anyone can recommend.

[@itstonyholiday]

Novation sent me a Launchpad X which they mapped to live loops natively. It’s pretty good, but I don’t use Live Loops that much.

[@snesmocha]

An iPad

[@mzhbeatz3572]

Bro, pls make a mix tutorial after

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Copy that, thanks for watching!

[@andrewbahdz]

ty mane

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[@sarsepidemik9007]

My question is: when I use bus on one track like reverb or delay or something…it affects all my tracks even those which I DONT want. Can I turn off the bus in another track or just bus works in every track? I mean one vocal track where I want reverb I put bus because I want to controle how much the effect sounds but on a another one vocal track I want no reverb but the bus is still there. How do I turn the effect in bus off of this track😂 u got me?😂 man I am soooo confused😅

[@itstonyholiday]

Don't send to the reverb bus from the track you don't want. Send to the reverb for the track you do want it on.

[@sarsepidemik9007]

@@itstonyholiday I am very sorry and I appologise but I am still cunfused maybe even more😀 please write me any possible way how to do it step by step. I am so sorry I am beginer I dont really mean to annoying you but I would apricciate it very much. Thanks for respond.

[@sarsepidemik9007]

Wait…so the bus in mono input with reverb is ON and so is the reverb in stereo output on. But when I switch on the another track and I put BUS ,,volume,, to zero it wont sound in the track? Even when in stereo output reverb still shine blue? Because when I try the blue reverb switch and turn off it affects all the bus reverb on another track where I still want it…man I should play my playstation instead to mess around with music producing😀😀😀😀

[@sarsepidemik9007]

I must click on subscribe because u r actualy first person ever answered me. Even it confuse me still a little😄 like your videos very much

[@primarychannel1521]

Can i use reverb and delay same way to group bus live vocal and another track?

[@itstonyholiday]

Not sure I understand, can you rephrase?

[@gracogotit]

Let’s gooo tony 💯

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[@justam_ess]

Note to Self: Use Track Stacks!!! Ya don't miss bro bro!

[@itstonyholiday]

Thanks for the support man! Glad you liked it.

[@rmxmslowverb]

Thank you for making a very clear to understand, visually aiding video :) The only thing that still confuses me is the 'sends' and the resulting duplicates. So if you have a track stack, which sends to say bus 2 and bus 4, each bus with a separate effect, do you end up with 1 track of the track stacks, one with the effects of bus 2, and one with the effects of bus 4? How does this impact the sound if the same thing is played 3 times at the same time with minor differences in effects? What is the benefit of the tracks being sent to separate multiple buses with effects rather than the effects just being added on the track stack, besides controlling the amount of effect? Sorry I hope that makes sense!

[@itstonyholiday]

Thank you for the kind words, really glad you found the content useful. Yes, you will get a duplicate of the track including it's volume, so having 3 or 4 stacked on top of each other could be a lot of audio signal coming from that specific sound. Typically you wouldn't have all of them sending to the bus at 0db, and also at full volume, you want to use the effects tastefully and therefore would have them as lesser volumes. The benefit of doing this is having more control over each individual effect. If you have a delay after a reverb on the actual track (not bussing it out), then your delay is affecting the already reverbed track. If you have a reverb bus and a delay bus going out from the track, you can set the parameters based on the dry signal from the track, and blend in the wet signal of the bus. This on top of many other benefits like using less plugins to ease CPU load, keeping your tracks more organized, EQing out or boosting certain parts of the bussed effect are some of the many reasons to use busses.

[@rmxmslowverb]

@@itstonyholiday Thank you! This is really helpful and makes sense :)

[@itstonyholiday]

@@rmxmslowverb Glad to help! Thanks for watching + the comment

[@djnroxanne]

When I create a track stack it doesn't appear to be a Bus but a Sum. How do I turn it into a Bus?

[@itstonyholiday]

There’s two types of track stacks, summing stacks is one of them. It should be all good, unless it’s behaving differently?

[@jackpast]

Still not sure…do I need a token to get on the bus? LOL. Nice video!

[@itstonyholiday]

No tokens required! Thanks for watching.

[@MrJonesy2121]

No just wanted to thank you for all this great information

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[@leestanford2452]

I'm pretty familiar with the short bus.

[@Jtaguines]

Bussin bussin

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[@vewilli]

This is very interesting, but very difficult. It’s somehow „double-Dutch“ to me. I‘d need someone to show and explain this to me on my computer in a project. Or watching this several times and at the same time practicing it on the computer. But nevertheless „Thank you“.

[@itstonyholiday]

Thanks for watching GAD. What are you struggling with specifically? Maybe I can explain it differently. Cheers!

[@vewilli]

@@itstonyholiday Thank you very much. I‘d like to be the expert you are, but I‘m miles away … My problem is that I can’t learn everything from KZbin videos. Especially in this case, in EQing, Compressing, it would be necessary that someone could show me these things live. But there is no one far around who could show me DAWs, in my case in Logic!

[@itstonyholiday]

@@vewilliI think you're getting ahead of yourself here and tackling a too many topics at one time. The best way to get better is to clearly define what your goals are and then work towards that. In the case of busses, if you haven't dove into EQ or compression I would say don't worry busses. While busses isn't advanced, it's not necessary for you to be learning until you've understood compression and EQ, and why you need busses. I'm not sure what your skills are, but if you're feeling overwhelmed with music production, I made this free course detailing how to go from knowing absolutely nothing to making your first song. It touches on basic concepts and how they apply to making songs, ultimately it's designed to show you the bare minimum, and then get you asking the right questions... which then turns into watching the right videos at the right time. Here's the course: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fn6zZWmgfbmlf5I

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