Logic Pro X: Sends, Buss & Aux (Beginners guide)

If you've ever wondered how professional producers and mix engineers achieve that polished, larger-than-life sound in Logic Pro X, the secret lies in understanding Sends, Busses, and Auxes.

These three features might sound daunting at first, but don't worry! In this video I breakdown how, when and why you should use them, and demystify sends, busses, and auxes, helping you unlock their magic and take your tracks to new levels.

Hope you enjoy the video :)

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[estielorie]

finally understood this. gonna give mixing a proper go. like i said, your videos are great, straight to the point, no 50-minute fluff. how about a beginner’s EQ video? cheers! (pro Q3)

[TheTonyAndreas]

Yo! Thx bro! I've spent years wondering how to do this and most video tutorials don;t get stright to the point! You rock bro! Much apprciated! I finally had the patience today too LOL

[ersatzcraigswan]

Massive thanks for comprehensive guidance on an elusive topic.

[cutetrxsh]

One of the best tutorial I've send. Great video man, it help me a lot to understand what busses are

[prodbyzenithh]

I go to college for audio engineer and my teacher who got two grammys could not get me to understand it man . Had to come here 🤣

[heathermease]

Super clear! You're a great teacher :)

[cone-stone]

Genial explicación tío!
Saludos desde España.

[artistpartyman]

Excellent tutorial. I will practice using bus's. The struggle is now over and thank you for sharing this content.

[duskatdawn]

Pro tools has a channel that you can create called master mix giving the user full control over all tracks to change the volume levels for each track at once with the slider, keeping your mix volumes in tack on each track.
How do I find this and create it for a project in Logic 11?

[FreddyFaith]

why when I make the vocal bus it lets me choose between mono and stereo plugins? I feel like using all stereo plugins on my mix doesn't sound that well, but when I use all mono for some reason towards the end of the mix the Vox starts playing louder in one ear than the other, plz help

[EscapeWithGeorge]

hey mate,
I’m trying to add a heavy reverb effect across all the tracks to help transition into a slowed and pitched-down ending for a beat I’m making. Essentially, I want to slow down and pitch down the main chorus towards the end.

I don't want to manually adjust each track individually. In fact, there are several other plugins I want to automate for specific sections as well.

I tried using a stutter effect on the main stereo, which works for one plugin, but I can't stack multiple plugins in this way. I assume this isn't the best approach.

Next, I linked all the tracks to a bus with reverb and automated the volume, but the volume automation affects the entire track, not just the few bars at the end. It’s also strange because it impacts the overall volume of the song.

To try a different method, I routed all the tracks to Bus 10, made the bus appear on the timeline, but the volume automation still affects the entire track's volume, if that makes sense.

What I really want is to automate any plugin effect across all tracks for specific sections without affecting the volume of the entire project. Is there a way to do this?

[shan]

Thanks for the info, greatly appreciated 💪🏾

[sthames]

BRUH YOU GO CRAZY EVRTHING WELL BE AND IS EXPAINED ON MY SOUL. IMA MAKE YOU AND OUR ANCESTOS PROUD. THE UNIVERSE ONLY ALLOWS WHAT IT WANTS TO HAPPEN IN THE MYCEELIIUM NETWORK

[eltaynoymachetero]

IM VERY INTERESTED TO LEARN HOW TO USE THE BUS WHEN I OPEN A TEMPLATE I BASICALLY PUT THE SAME PLUGINS IM USE ON ALL THE TRACK AND LEVEL ALL TO HAVE THE SAME SPICE SOUND NOW IF I LEARN HOW TO USE THE BUS I WANT TO LEARN HOW CAN START BY TO BUS THE VERSE VOCALS INTO ONE BUS TO USE THE PLUGINS MY IMPACTS TO ANOTHER AND HIGH PTCHES TO ANOTHER AND HOOKS TO ANOTHER TO USE BASICALLY USE 4 CHANNELS TO USE PLUGINS FOR ME NOT TO OVERLOAD WITH SO MANY IF YOU CAN JUST MAKE ONE VIDEO WITH THE PROCESS I PUTTING HERE I WILL GLADLY APPRECIATE IT MAN ..🙏

[Ramin-ps]

So if i create a vocal bus for sidechaining only with no fx, do i zero out the volume fader on that bus? cuz the parallel bus would add a duplicated signal that i dont want

[alex-sew]

so you said that it helps with space but I would think that it helps everything sound more in tune as well, or am I mistaking ???? I say this because if you have the same reverb on many instruments or many vocals it help bring them to a more common sound rather all kinds of reverb jumping around on different parts throughout the mix..

[flashpest]

If you put all vocals in a sum folder do you even have to use a bus for them? Cause a reverb will affect the whole sum folder right? Wrong?

[riasure]

Hey KC sounds, I am still using sends, busses & auxes, like you, but was just wondering do you ever use summing tracks instead to achieve similar results? And if not any reason why not?

[Celticsaint]

How much is the level if you just add the effect plugin to a channel vs if you set aux channel?

[gerocane]

Why does my music sound so sick if i only added….. Feverb? 😂🎉