My “Guitars” on a settee

[AndyTravis]

Setting off for a day at the studio tomorrow…

 

I’m packing a Les Paul Standard, 60’s reissue strat, 50’s reissue Strat with Baritone neck (27” scale) and a Guild Baritone 8 String.

 

It does seem I’m more the guitarist at the moment…I’ve sold 4 basses recently and @Dankology is doing a sterling job holding down the bottom end…

 

Enjoying the challenge - Not enjoying remembering to turn pedals on and off and playing the solos correctly…

[2pods]

I like the look of that Guild.

What's the tuning, considering it's a 8 stringer ?

[AndyTravis]

53 minutes ago, 2pods said:

I like the look of that Guild.

What's the tuning, considering it's a 8 stringer ?

B-b - double course on the A and D (what would be d/g on a standard tuned guitar)

Edited yesterday at 15:38 by AndyTravis

[MichaelDean]

That Les Paul is a bit tasty! Hope it's a good session!

[Dankology]

He played them all. And rather well too.

[AndyTravis]

15 minutes ago, Dankology said:

He played them all. And rather well too.

“Alright Hendrix” - made me chuckle.

[LukeFRC]

10 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

“Alright Hendrix” - made me chuckle.

#humblebrag

[AndyTravis]

9 minutes ago, LukeFRC said:

#humblebrag

If you’d heard the playing - you’d understand he was taking the piss 😆

[AndyTravis]

We gave it a good go today. Started at 9.30 (me) and we set the drums up and @Dankologyarrived around 11 as planned.

 

3 full tracks, aside from embellishments and vocals. 
 

decent days work - finished at 7.30pm.

[BigRedX]

10 hours ago, AndyTravis said:

 

 

As a Mac user I always wonder why others need to have the dock turned on, quite large, taking up valuable screen real-estate at the bottom of the screen. Especially as in Logic you would be able to fit another two tracks on the arrange page without needing to reduce their size (and being able to fit more tracks at a sensible magnification is always a plus IMO), and I doubt whether you dropped out of Logic at any time during the day, and even if you did it's generally easier to switch between open programs using Command-Tab. On my set-up the dock is arranged vertically on the right-hand screen where it is out of the way and not taking up valuable pixels on my main screen. If I'm using a system with a single screen like a laptop the dock is permanently hidden.

[Dankology]

47 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

On my set-up the dock is arranged vertically on the right-hand screen where it is out of the way and not taking up valuable pixels on my main screen. If I'm using a system with a single screen like a laptop the dock is permanently hidden.

 

Never even thought about this...

 

We're literally teaching ourselves Logic as we go (and I don't think any of the four of us are particularly Mac savvy in general) so little pearls like this are much appreciated. 

[BigRedX]

2 hours ago, Dankology said:

Never even thought about this...

 

We're literally teaching ourselves Logic as we go (and I don't think any of the four of us are particularly Mac savvy in general) so little pearls like this are much appreciated. 

 

Glad to have been of some use.

 

You're not alone in having the dock taking up valuable screen real estate. Most of the people showing how to use various Mac programs on YouTube are guilty of this too. I'm wondering if it's a self sustaining attribute, since the Dock is one of the interface items that automatically identifies MacOS and therefore anyone demonstrating a Mac program thinks it needs to be on their screen and consequently users looking at the videos never question it.

 

Because I come from a graphic design background where every vertical pixel is at a premium and therefore any interface elements make use these pixels at the expense of what is in the program window are banished. At the moment my bane is the Adobe "Home Bar" which is at the top of every Adobe program and for many users like myself serves no useful purpose, but can no longer be removed/hidden.

 

And you never stop learning Logic IMO. I've been using it for over 30 years now, when I got my first copy it was either late V1 or early V2 when it was just for sequencing external MIDI instruments rather than the fully-fledged DAW it is today. There is no correct way of using it; the two people I collaborate with each use the program in a completely different way to me, yet we all manage to get similar end results.

 

Finally for reference here's my "home studio" set up (which also doubles as my graphic design studio for my day job) You can just see the bottom of the dock on the edge of the right hand screen:

 

[Dankology]

That's is a wonderfully pleasingly clean set-up.