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Hello Craig @Anderton, I have Max Your Mix and am working through it - enjoying very much and learning a lot. I'm into the chapters on the actual mixing process now and have started to build my own checklist (name all channels, colour-code, make groups where necessary, fix glitches etc etc). It's all straight from the book so I was wondering whether you actually have a mixing workflow checklist available anywhere which would save me from re-inventing the wheel? I found this which is a good high level summary of the book content and consistent with what I've seen so far, albeit it's missing the diagrams that it references: https://blogi.savonia.fi/mlt1/wp-content/uploads/sites/3636/2017/02/The-Mixing-Checklist.pdf It's actually too high level though, I was hoping for somewhere between that and the detail in the book! For example in the EQ section, my notes from the book are: - Adjust for most important elements first; typically vocals, drums, bass - Think about linear / mid-side processing [I have Cubase Pro / Frequency plug-in] - Audition some of the DAW presets - Review some of your 'presets' shown in the book - Tame resonances Is there a list like this available anywhere, and if not, could it be a useful addition for the next edition of the e-book? Many thanks, JP.

I hadn't heard of this unit until a couple of days ago and I'm now very interested in it, but can't find too much info online. While I understand your comments @Anderton, I think all of the same things could be said about the Softube Console 1, and they seem to have found a market? This unit looks great for Cubase users imho because it's similar in concept but uses the Cubase stock channel strip rather than having to add a plugin to every track. Interested to hear any feedback from users who have one. TIA.

I now own four of your books Craig - I can't say that I've finished reading them all yet but I will, fastatic resources. The one that would fill a gap for me would be a Cubase book similar to your Studio One / Pro Tools books. I've recently upgraded to the Pro version after years on the more basic products and I don't really know where to start with the extra functionality - or even whether I would ever realisitically need some of it. My knowledge and workflow is pretty basic... I've tried a couple of times to dip into the manual but there's *too much* of it, unless you have something specific you want to find out about then the only way to find the real nuggets is to read it all. Nearly 1400 pages.... You might think that there are good resources already out there, in which case feel free to signpost Best regards, JP.

Great advice 😄 Thank you! Funnily enough I watched a YT video this week where a guy called Tony Lee Glenn (props) did exactly this, i.e. played through all of the 3.15 amp/cabs on stock settings - and it started me on the thought process that there's an easier way to do things than my thorough one-by-one. Doing a couple of minutes myself on each of the 3.50 amp/cab blocks is hopefully the missing piece of the jigsaw that will allow me to let go of trying to explore EVERY possible permutation in search of something "better". The forums are great but I've found myself reading way too much about topics like "which amp is best for clean to dirty" when I need to focus on "which amp shall I start with" - there's some brilliant stuff on them but sometimes I wish every topic came with a beginner / intermediate / expert rating! Thanks again for the advice, much appreciated.

Hi Craig @Anderton, thanks for the response. I'll try to explain my issue, but this might be a very personal thing. If I get to try out a new pedal or a new amp, I like to play through it / tweak it for at least half an hour to see what it can do and what I can get from it that I like. The problem is that I've only ever played through maybe 3 of the amps and 5 of the pedals in the Helix, so if I wanted to adopt that approach to everything that I don't already know (rather than flip through blocks on stock settings), that way lies insanity. Your book has been great in terms of helping me to understand the differences between the various different new (to me) fx models, and what a good use for each might be. Without it, it would have just been a sea of sliders with similar looking parameters, and I wouldn't have known where to start. The section on amps and cabs by comparison seemed to be suggesting a virtual version of my real world "try everything" approach but worse - in the real world, I wouldn't have swapped out cabs and then mics on the same amp, and then swapped out amps again - the Helix options are actually explontentially more. I think the short cut I'm looking for here might have arrived with the new cabs... the new stock amp+cab blocks sound good, I think I should just pick one and build on it rather than spending ages tweaking it. I'm mainly a home / home recoding player, with occasional jamming and ever more infrequent gigs. The main reasons for creating my own patches are 1) being able to sit down with a blank preset and quickly get to a tone I like, rather than spending hours geting to one by accident and 2) making tones that inspire me to play. I'm not chasing a particular tone, and although I enjoy the process of creating tones, I want to better / quicker at it... basically I want to put myself in a position where I play more and spend less time being a virtual sound engineer Hope that makes sense!

Hi @Anderton, I'm sure you'll be at least mentioning the new cabs in your updated version for 3.50. Would you be able to expand the section about "Option overload" on auditioning amps / cabs in the Helix? I nearly asked you about this anyway as I just wanted to check my understanding - it sounded like run through all the amps then all the cabs then all the mics then all the amps again... given the new cabs options I'm definitely feeling option overload and would love to get an idea of "best practice" for setting up my own patches as opposed to using the stock or others' presets. Many thanks!