Pro Tools Mixing: Audio Tracks

Video Transcript

"The first track I'm going to go into is audio tracks. Audio tracks are the ones that allow you to record vocals, guitar, any type of audio that you might want to record. Now, the audio tracks usually, they come from microphones that are usually plugged into pre-amps or, you know, like, tube pre-amps, like the AV-WA seven thirty-seven, or even the digital tube pre-amps on the back of, like, the M-Box, or any, use any type of pre-amps that allow you to, to amplify the mike signal, is definitely a necessity as far as recording, things like that. You want to make sure that when you're recording on some audio, that you get good signal to noise ratio, which basically means that you're not, you don't have a really small, little signal, and it's not showing out at the very bottom of your fader. It's actually occupying a majority of the space in getting as close to zero as possible for, for a majority of recordings. I mean, for things like, maybe a high hat, you might want out want to record all the way to the top. You might want to get a lower level. But, things like vocals and drums like that, like, as far as, like, the kick in the snare, you want to get a good signal to noise ratio. You want it to be three fourths of the way. Not, never quipping, but you want it to be pretty high. Audio, the audio track is very important, because this is a track that you can always manipulate and change, and do all your effects to."