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Summary: The master volume in Pro Tools can be used to adjust levels for all of the tracks. Use master volume to adjust sound levels of Pro Tools with the tips in this free video on music recording software from a professional musician.
"The next thing I'm going to show you is the Master Volume Fader. The Master Volume Fader can be assigned to any type of BUS or any type of master volume. If you have some, as you have all your tracks within a track going to analog 1-2, as the outputs, what's going to happen is if you make a Master Track Fader for the analog 1-2, it's going to control every single track that goes to 1-2. So it's kind of like cutting everything off at the last second, just putting a Fader there, so you can affect them all. With this one, you can also add automation, different things like that. As far as like putting fades at the end of songs and turning the volume down. Things like that, is very helpful. So just go to the Master 1, and you can look at it, and it's just a volume. The volume you can change by just using either the Draw tool or the Hand tool. The Hand tool you can actually, if you put it on grid, you can grab it from a certain bar and change it, and actually do a bar mixture. Your bars a perfect and your fades are perfect. You could also do different drawing things, like you can do free hand with this Pencil tool, to draw in your volume, and draw in your fades. You can also change different automations and things like that, if you want within a track, if there's like parts that get a little too loud you can just kind of drip them a little bit and you can actually turn parts up a little bit, at certain parts."
eHow Article: Pro Tools Editing: Master Volume