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Summary: Inserts in Pro Tools can be used to adjust output levels of a track. Equalize audio channels with Pro Tools inserts using tips from an experienced music engineer and producer in this free video on music recording.
"The Inserts are the slash where you, which allow you to put and plug ins on your tracks. Now, only certain tracks can get plug ins, the master, the audio and the auxiliary tracks. The midi-tracks you can't put any effects on it and you can't send them because it's just data. Now with the audio, you're going to find at the top of your mix screen, these are all the inserts. You got five inserts per channel. So what I can do is I can add different things like go, clicking on of them and adding EQ. I have bunch of different plug ins, I have waves, pile and bundle, so this how gives me, you know, a few extra options as far as EQ, things like that. I could also add compressor, things like that, it's pretty easy. If I want to view multiple windows at the same time, I'm going to make sure I click this bull's eye target, so that the next one I pull up, it also will come up again. But if I put, let me put up, pitch shifting, put the pitch shifting on, it's going to show both screens now. This is very important, if you want to do multiple things at the same time, things like that, this is how so at. You can also put things on your other tracker too. So I'll take this pitch off right, and since this is being busted there, I'm going to put just a little re-rewind it. This is a pretty good set-up for vocal, vocal track. It has an EQ then it's going to a compressor, it's also being bust out into a Reverb. So you know, you could do a lot with just this little set up right here."
eHow Article: Pro Tools Mixing: Inserts