Hello to all, I am a new member and am very excited to be part of this group. I am 69 years old and have been play music all my life. Mostly local bands as well as every band though my 12 years of school. I have always been interested in mixing and editing music ever since my first studio experience some 40 years ago. Now That I have reached retirement age I thought now or never.

I was just noticing Logic automatically assigns a myriad of plugins to their session players. For example: Session Bass uses 9 plugins. Seems like a lot to me. Right? The one I use often is Session Drummer. When you use the producer packs the tracks are separated which is what I want so a drum kit is around 14-16 instruments plus rooms plus sub groups plus fx returns. In total it's about 24 tracks. No problem with the tracks but the plugins? 46! Wow! Am I wrong? And the routing? 32 sends! I mean it sounds okay but creates a chore for me. I have no trust of other people making that many decisions for me. I have to touch it all and evaluate it. Brings to mind another thread where a user was having CPU issues with Logic. Session players were my first thought. I have noticed things play fine unless and until you flip the widget to display all the individual tracks and / or try to edit midi if you have converted to midi which I eventually always do. The work around is to only make edits while the drums are in solo when the whole mix won't play without CPU problems. My ultimate workaround is to use a laptop as a midi player and offload the entire task to a 2nd computer. I bring the audio back via Danté using Danté Virtual Soundcard.

In the Spring of 1978,I bought a Gibson RD Artist. The unique thing about it is at the time a company named Norlin owned both Gibson and Moog so they had Moog do some advanced electronics to include active EQ, compressor, expander and preamp circuitry. We are approaching 50 years together. I liked to experiment with electronics going way back and hacked on this one to add additional phase options and other unnecessary features. Through all the hacking and the natural aging process, the poor thing doesn’t play consistently due to end-of-life of the capacitors. Anyway I dove in today and have compiled a parts list on Digikey and will be restoring the electronics over the next few weeks. Here’s some before photos! Wish me luck!

I know I cant. Not like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yX2YeaWkaA

Hello! I find it difficult to do a volume balance when the effects are disabled. I mix only my own instrumentals so I always put some effects etc. during the production stage because I don't like the dry sound because it's uninspiring to me during writing. Then I disable the effects, convert MIDI to Audio, and keep the effects disabled for the volume balance, because I see everyone doing volume balances before adding affects. I would prefer to do the volume balance with the effects on though, as it sounds better. Is there a reason I should not do this?