Update #9 (Producing #2)

This week, few of the main things learned are "bus" and aux tracks. The term "bus" is often used to describe an audio sub-group (to gather a number of related sources to allow overall control via the bus or sub-group fader). An auxiliary output is used to send a channel to a shared effect, for example, delay or reverb, so that changing the fader level doesn't affect the dry ratio.

Reverb creates depth and space while pre-delay is used to alter the time taken for listeners to hear the "first" sound; closer sound (pushed forward) is created when pre-delay is increased while decreasing it will create the sense of hearing it pushed backwards. The three main types of reverberations include spring (typically used for guitar amps), plate (metal plate hanging in a box-- has a higher echo density as sound travels faster in metal than air) and chamber which is a room (with very reflective surfaces and let the reverb tails on and on). Other types of reverb in Logic X include space designer (where impulse responses are collected from real spaces (not universe)), convolution, chromaverb (digital reverb) and SPX 90.

Now that Chloe's song has vocals, the focus has gone to fixing the vocals. One of the few things done was to select the best recordings, cancel out unnecessary sounds, add reverb to them and flex pitches. The two main audio tracks are sent to the same bus with the same level of reverberation. What is needed to be done next is using the pitch correction to correct the pitch for the vocals.