Pro Tools Insert & Effects Tips

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 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 including multi-band EQ inserts and reverb. Make better recordings and understand how to use the Audio Suite in Pro Tools 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

"What I'll be talking about in this section is really about using and applying different techniques within pro tools. Now within pro tools, there's a lot of different ways of doing certain things as far as doubling tracks and adding EQ's and adding effects. Now, there's certain types of ways to add certain things, in order to achieve certain sounds, which I'm going to go over today, like the right way to like add an EQ, the right way to add a reverb, the right way to add you know, certain effects and create play lists, you know what I'm saying, creating play lists so that you can copy tracks easily and switch between different types of arrangements, you know what I'm saying, so if you have you know you know a certain track with two different types of arrangements on it, two different patterns, you can switch between the two very easily and I'm going to show you how to do that today. When using pro tools, it's very important that you know all of these things for the mixing process, because the mixing process is only as good as how much you know about the program. If you don't know how to do certain things within the program, it's going to be very hard for you to mix the way that you want to mix."