bluesfordan
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I bought Logic Pro the other day and have been experimenting with it. Pretty much the same things I've been doing with GarageBand. The level of detail is light years beyond what I've been doing and that's not a bad thing. I'm glad that I've mucked around with GB for the last 2-3 years because otherwise I'd be intimidated as heck. But I've got the basics down and they're pretty much the same program.
A couple of observations. The first being that my humbucker guitar and single coil guitars using the same settings on the AI gain are surprisingly different. The humbucker was lower but more consistent, the single coils were louder but wider variances. I did three tracks, the first with the humbucker, the next 2 with the single coil.
with the improved metering, I could not only see when I exceeded +0 but by how much. What I found interesting was several times the guitar tracks were staying below 0+ individually but when they hit the same note at a certain point of a phrase, the stereo out bounced into the red.
through experimenting with the native plugins and adjusting the track faders (mostly tracks 2 and 3 with the single coil), I was able to get a good sounding mix that didn't hit the dread red zone. I was using the headphones since I have neither real monitors nor treated room to give the playback justice.
I don't know what the output of the single coils are but it was kind of counter intuitive that there would be so much more signal at the same input gain level. It didn't sound that much higher when I was recording, but I had to pull the faders down almost -9db to stop the saturation at the stereo out when I was playing it back.
Do you normally have to lower the gain input level for single coils if you're going to mix them with humbuckers? Is this what they mean by fixing it in the mix?
A couple of observations. The first being that my humbucker guitar and single coil guitars using the same settings on the AI gain are surprisingly different. The humbucker was lower but more consistent, the single coils were louder but wider variances. I did three tracks, the first with the humbucker, the next 2 with the single coil.
with the improved metering, I could not only see when I exceeded +0 but by how much. What I found interesting was several times the guitar tracks were staying below 0+ individually but when they hit the same note at a certain point of a phrase, the stereo out bounced into the red.
through experimenting with the native plugins and adjusting the track faders (mostly tracks 2 and 3 with the single coil), I was able to get a good sounding mix that didn't hit the dread red zone. I was using the headphones since I have neither real monitors nor treated room to give the playback justice.
I don't know what the output of the single coils are but it was kind of counter intuitive that there would be so much more signal at the same input gain level. It didn't sound that much higher when I was recording, but I had to pull the faders down almost -9db to stop the saturation at the stereo out when I was playing it back.
Do you normally have to lower the gain input level for single coils if you're going to mix them with humbuckers? Is this what they mean by fixing it in the mix?