Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

> Ooo, hi there \ufffd do you mind if I sit at your table...

Not if you're a cute girl. ;o)

> the plugin window \ufffd but the one thing I would like to do is control the
> plugin wet/dry amount on a track, rather than just each specific
> parameter....

The plugins where this makes sense (ie the plugins that add something to
the original sound rather than modifying it), have a control for this.

> I\ufffdd like to use my favourite Fat EQ

If you're switching to 7.1, quickly get used to the Channel EQ instead
of the Fat EQ. You'll love it! :o)


>\ufffd then be able to define with a line how
> much that effect is changing the track... A bit like sending via aux on my
> Mackie mixer I guess \ufffd but in an automation window with lines..

Well EQ is an example where "wet/dry" is not really appliccable (it
wouldn't be on a mixer either since EQs are inserted, not
sent/returned). The closest to what you're asking would be a single
control that turns all other controls to zero but if this is part of
your mixing technique, I'd suggest a different technique. ;o) (And if
you just want to hear the difference, the bypass button should be enough..)

Maurits.

> I think there are a lot of plugs which do not have this. For example, the 
> distortion plug ins, and the compressor plugs.

Exactly; these are plugins that do not simply add an effect to your
sound, but modify it completely. Hence a "dry/wet" balance has no
meaning. Unless you want to sum it with the original sound as Gary
suggested. Which is possible, but it's logical that the effect doesn't
provide this setting since it has nothing to do with the effect itself
really.

> If you could do wet/dry with a 
> compressor you could get both dynamic hits and smooth solid sound.

As I said there's no wet and dry with a compressor, but if you mean
adding the original sound and the compressed sound, I think you just
made up a very complicated way of changing the gain/threshold combination.

> > Well EQ is an example where "wet/dry" is not really appliccable 
> 
> maybe not normally applicable in a standard setting,

What I mean is that there is no such thing as wet and dry there. So
there's actually no way to implement that.

With a reverb, some sound is added to the original. There you can put a
switch on the balance between the original and the added sound. But
compressors and EQs modify the sound itself, so there is no "dry" sound
(and no "water") that can be defined in the result.

> but it would have its 
> uses. suppose you wanted to gradually make a track brighter by adding
in some 
> high harmonics.

Well then just increase those harmonics. Or use an exiter, which _adds_
sound like a reverb (I think it lacks a wet/dry mix, but the level is
just one knob anyway). :o)

> actually it might be very useful to have a separate buss with a 
> eq and bitcrusher that could be automated.

No trouble there! :o)

Maurits.