Pro Tools Mixing: Rules for Mixing

Series Summary

Today’s digital musical equipment and recording software like Pro Tools and GarageBand have made it possible to get professional-quality recordings from your own home recording studio. Some of the most creative and innovative music being produced today is made by those outside the mainstream music industry. With the right combination of quality microphones, amps, instruments and inspiration, you can put together your home studio and start creating the album of the year today. In this free video on mixing audio tracks in Pro Tools, a professional music engineer demonstrates how to fine-tune an audio track. Learn how to use master tracks, track icons and auxiliary inputs in Pro Tools. Adjust audio tracks using muting and copying inserts in the mix and edit windows. Make better recordings with the tips in the music software lesson, and soon the major labels will take notice. Many of the tracks on the radio were created or mixed using Pro Tools.

Video Transcript

"Mixing is a very important process within the whole production face like of your music. When you mix, there's a lot of different things to look at and a lot of people do a different ways. I mean, there's really no real way to mix but there's a lot of rules. So you got to know the rules before you can blend them. First things first is just learning to hold way that recording works, it's the same old process the way the channels just work within Protools. Understanding how the sound travels through the different machines and effects and inserts and in the faders is really important to understanding how the sound, it can be manipulated, how it sound. Everything like EQ and Compression and Reverb and different effects, I'm going to show you how to apply those to your track and how to really use the Protools system to clean up your tracks and get the sound that you're looking for. Depending on where you're recording, you might be recording at your house, you might be recording in a million dollar studio, but, the mixing is really what's going to help it sound the way you want it to sound. The mixing and the mastering is going to be able to clean up and change certain things about the sound of your music that you might not like and you may be able to fix them, you may not, but you can always try."