Your faders are almost maxed out, your plugin gain staging, well, you may have not adjusted it while mixing. Your master fader is pegging and you keep on trying to adjust your level to no avail. I see this question on Forums on a regular basis and it’s really quite easy.
In less than 5 minutes I’ll show you how I get more headroom in my mixes and you can too.
Pro Tools short cuts. How to insert multiple plugins and sends at one time to speed up your workflow. Super Fast and Super Easy!
When working on a mix there are times where it can be a challenge to get things to pop in a mix. Sometimes adding the right compressor gets an instrument to pop, sometimes it’s the right eq or even as simple as getting the instrument balanced or the volumes right in the mix. But sometimes none of that works and here is one way to get the job done.
In this video, I go over session guitarist work and playing the right parts that work for the song. When recording guitar parts I always take the approach of what’s best for the song, can I put a “hook” guitar part in that will be memorable? Is what I’m doing enhancing the song or taking away from it?
A handful of shortcuts for pro tools users that will help you speed up your workflow. The last shortcut on the video (at 5:35) shows you how to delete a whole row of plugins at once allowing you to start a fresh mix if needed. Other shortcuts are showing you how to bypass multiple plugins at once, how to send multiple channels to a buss/aux, how to copy and duplicate a plugin to another channel. Quick and easy shortcuts in pro tools.
Here’s what’s in it: