Mixing in Pro Tools - Skill Pack

Mixing in Pro Tools: Skill Pack is designed to help you boost your understanding of the art and craft of creating great-sounding mixes using Digidesign's industry-standard DAW Pro Tools. Starting with the basics of essential processors and working up to advanced signal routing and sophisticated sonic manipulation, this book will help you to produce polished professional-sounding mixes. As you work with the sample sessions on the included CD-ROM and the hands on tutorials in the book, you will develop your ears as you expand your knowledge.Unlike other books with companion discs, the source files on your Skill Pack CD-ROM are an essential part of the book's tutorials-they are not there as mere examples; they are the raw materials you'll use to work through the hands-on exercises. The result is a fully integrated learning experience-you'll learn by applying the skills you've been taught through real-life experience.

Brian Smithers teaches music technology at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida

Equalization	p. 1
High-Pass and Low-Pass Filters	p. 2
High and Low Shelving Filters	p. 5
Controlling Clipping	p. 7
Emphasizing Higher Frequencies	p. 9
Peak Filters	p. 9
Removing Hum Using the Peak Filter	p. 10
Basic Kick Drum EQ	p. 12
Basic Snare Drum EQ	p. 15
Auditioning All Your EQs	p. 16
Instant Stereo	p. 17
United Nations of EQ	p. 18
Dynamics	p. 21
Compression	p. 21
Threshold	p. 22
Ratio	p. 24
Knee	p. 26
Attack and Release	p. 27
Bus Compression	p. 28
Limiting	p. 30
Maximizing Volume	p. 31
Expansion	p. 33
Enhancing Dynamics	p. 34
Reducing Noise	p. 36
Gating	p. 37
Silencing Bleed-Through	p. 37
Big '80s Snore	p. 39
Time-Based Effects	p. 41
Delay	p. 42
Routing a Time-Based Effect	p. 42
Delay Time and Feedback	p. 45
Artificial Gymnasium	p. 46
Mono-to-Stereo Delay	p. 48
Hitting the Wallfs)	p. 49
Stereo Delay	p. 50
	p. 51
	p. 52
Reverb	p. 53
Natural Reverb	p. 54
Saving Plug-In Settings	p. 56
Pre-Delay	p. 57
Algorithm, Size, and Decay	p. 57
	p. 59
	p. 60
Dual-Mono Reverb	p. 61
Special Effects	p. 63
Chorus	p. 63
	p. 64
	p. 65
Flanging	p. 66
De-Essing	p. 67
A Look Under the Hood	p. 68
Real-World De-Essing	p. 70
The Rough Mix	p. 73
Organizing Your Mix	p. 73
Creating Memory Locations	p. 74
Refining Memory Locations	p. 76
Track Order	p. 77
Track Sets	p. 79
Fader Groups	p. 81
Mixing with Groups	p. 82
I/O Setup	p. 84
Panning	p. 87
Balance	p. 89
Setting Drum Levels	p. 90
Setting the Rest of the Levels	p. 92
Advanced Signal Flow	p. 93
Getting On the Bus	p. 93
Subgroups	p. 94
Compressing the Drum Kit	p. 96
The Bus As Multiplier	p. 97
Instant Stereo Again	p. 99
Pump Up the Snare	p. 99
Subgroup Mult	p. 102
Multiple Outputs	p. 103
Master Faders	p. 104
Alternate Monitors	p. 106
Automation	p. 109
Writing Automation	p. 110
Updating Automation	p. 111
Latch Mode	p. 112
Touch Mode	p. 115
Drawing Automation	p. 118
Selective Delay	p. 120
The Line Pencil Tool	p. 121
Other Pencil Shapes	p. 123
The Trim Tool	p. 124
Editing Automation	p. 125
Paste Special and Copy Special	p. 126
Not Fade Away	p. 128
Bouncing Your Mix	p. 131
Bounce to Disk	p. 131
The Bounce Procedure	p. 132
Bounce Parameters	p. 135
The Real-Time Bounce	p. 136
Dither	p. 137
A Brief Bounce Experiment	p. 138
Bouncing Synthesizer Parts	p. 141
Bouncing MIDI "Live"	p. 141
MIDI Offset	p. 143
Printing MIDI Parts	p. 145
The Other Bounce	p. 146
Doubling Parts	p. 149
Strength in Numbers	p. 149
Better Late	p. 150
On Location	p. 152
Fever Pitch	p. 153
Time and Again	p. 155
Stems and Submixes	p. 157
Mixing with Stems	p. 158
Stems Within Stems	p. 160
Submixing	p. 161
Advanced Dynamics	p. 165
Side-Chain Processing	p. 165
Ducking a Music Bed	p. 165
Fun with Gates	p. 167
Drums with Gates	p. 169
Parallel Compression	p. 171
New York Compression	p. 172
Stereo Enhancement	p. 175
Wider Stereo	p. 175
Breaking Down the Walls	p. 175
Preserving Mono Compatibility	p. 177
Mid-Side Processing	p. 179
M-S Encoding	p. 180
M-S Decoding	p. 182
Checking Your Mix in Mono	p. 183
External Effects	p. 187
Making Connections	p. 187
Latency Compensation	p. 189
Other Considerations	p. 191
Managing Mix Resources	p. 193
System Settings	p. 193
AudioSuite Plug-Ins	p. 196
Printing Effects and Submixes	p. 198
Printing Effects	p. 199
Printing Submixes	p. 200
Epilogue-Final Mix	p. 201
Index	p. 203
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