Maybe someone can help clarify the 3 buckets method for Spatial processing to me. This is my thinking in it so far but I feel like someone from the community could probably help explain it to me better. OK so you basically have 3 busses called Buckets. 1 for Drums and Percussion with a short verb and a long verb. A 2nd Buss for Vocals with a short verb, long verb, short delay and long delay, and a 3rd Buss for Everything Else with a short and long verb. You then select specific tracks that you want to send to these busses for a sense of space. Now here is where I get confused on the routing, and correct me if I am wrong because I don't use Logic and I am not familiar enough with its functions to understand its routing setup (also I have to squint super hard to see the names on the bottom of the tracks, so that doesn't help Lol), but from what I can tell, those buckets are all routed to a 4th Bucket/Buss called a WET FX Buss, and it is that Buss that is Routed to the main out, and NOT any of the actual 3 Buckets being discussed. Is that correct? None of the actual 3 buckets are being sent to the Main Stereo Out. All 3 of them are being sent to 1 WET FX Buss that is then sent to the Main Stereo Out, where it all gets summed together with the Group Busses. I just want to clarify if that is correct. If not, please explain! I just want to make sure I am following along correctly to the videos. Thank you, friendly people!

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I've been doing some research on the topic listed above and wondering if there is a preference? From what I found, what we learned was the automatic normalizing function found in Logic, but it sounds like gain staging can be a separate process done to each track. Am I understanding that correctly, or is it really so simple as using the normalize function?