Pro Tools Mixing: Muting Inserts

Video Transcript

"Muting inserts is a pretty easy operation. You can, there's a couple different ways of doing it. You can hold down the Apple button. It'll actually mute the insert. What you can also do is just take the insert off by taking the insert, doing no insert, or change the insert to the one you want. Like make sure you click that little sidebar thing. Switch to the...there's a bunch of different options and there's a bunch of different plug-ins you can put in here. There's a lot of different ways to move - you can also move your plug-ins from track to track. But you just got to make sure that the track is the same type of track. Sometimes there's R task plug-ins or TDM plug-ins. TDM plug-ins are plug-ins only made for HD. They run off the HD XL cards, so when you're recording it doesn't use any CPU power, so it would do a few different things that you're not able to do on the LE systems like record with plug-ins already on the track, or busings while you're recording. These are things you can only do on the HG and not on the LE system."