Pro Tools 9 : the mixer's toolkit / Nathan Adam, Kevin Ward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Adam, Nathan, author.

Contributor:

Ward, Kevin, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pro Tools.

Digital audio editors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 p.)

Place of Publication:

Burlington, Mass. : Focal Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this exciting new book learn the secret toolkits used to to develop a professional, radio-ready rock mix out of tracks recorded in a garage. In Pro Tools 9: The Mixers Toolkit you will get hands-on with a real Pro Tools session as you start arranging, EQing, compressing, bussing, effecting and automating a modern demo into a hard hitting, radio ready production. See the in-depth use of micro-editing, Elastic Time, and Beat Detective across Drums, Bass, Guitars and Vocals, and learn how to use Multi-Compression, Reverbs and Delays to make your tracks really jump out of a mix. Fin

Contents:

Cover; Pro Tools 9: The Mixer's Toolkit; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Session Overview; Intro and Overview; Demo Files and Web Site; Who You Are?; Shortcuts and Menus; 2 Session Setup; Listening Through the Original Tracks; The Alt and Shift Key Secret; The Fat Finger Secret; Drum Editing Prep; Creating an Escape Route; 3 Drum Editing; Manual Drum Pocketing; Roughing in the Drums; Fixing Timing Trends; Drum Transient Quantizing; Beat Detecting Multi-track Drums; Conforming Drum Edits to a Grid; Smoothing Audio Gaps; Method 3: Elastic Audio; Getting into Trouble with Elastic Audio

Quantizing Drums with Elastic Audio Combining Drum Editing Methods; 4 Bass Guitar; Setting Up Your Bass Pocket; Elastic Audio on Bass; Quantizing Bass; Warping to Preserve Bass Attack; Pocketing Bass against Guitars; Bass Pocketing Judgment Calls; 5 Guitar Mixing; Roughing in Guitars; Creating a Master; Mono-Fy Your Mix; The Filtering Secret; Initial Guitar Levels; Acoustic Guitar Compression; ABing Compressors; Toggling between Presets; Mixing Auxiliary Guitars; Prioritizing Track Secret; Fugue Guitars; EQing Clean Guitars; Improving Stereo Image with EQ; Testing the Stereo Guitar Mix

6 Bus Mixing Setting Up Submix Busses; Solo Safeing; Sequential Inputs Trick; Reverb Returns; Drum Verb; Setting Good Reverb Levels; 7 Drum Mixing; EQing Kick; Drum Compression; EQing Snare; Tom Processing; Phase-Checking Drums; Capturing Safety Drums; Manual Drum Replacement; Parallel Drum Compression; "All-Buttons-In" Compression; Adding Urgency to the Drums; Multiple Track Output Trick; 8 Vocal Mixing; Vocal Compression Secrets; Vocal EQ Technique; Vocal Delays; Verb versus Delay; Filtering Delays; Make Your Own Presets; Vocal Riding with Automation; Tweaking Your Vocal Ride

Level Comparing with Pre- and Post-RollMicro-Tweaking Level Trick; Vocal EQ Effects; Ear Referencing; 9 Timing Fixes; Acoustic Guitar Automation Tweaks; Mixing Electric Guitars; Pocketing Electric Guitars; Pocketing Fugue Guitars with Elastic Audio; Quantizing Chunky Guitars; Fixing Acoustic Timing; 10 Premastering; Loudness Wars; Premastering EQ; Pre- versus Post-Fader Metering; Maxim-izing Your Mix; Identifying Overcompression; 11 Final Mix; Master Fade; Bouncing to Disk; Closing Thoughts; 12 Pro Tools Systems; Finding the Right Pro Tools System for You; Pro Tools 9 Universal Needs

Pro Tools 9 (Basic System): 699+Pro Tools HD Native: 5695+; Pro Tools HD: 10,000+; Index; Bonus Chapter: From Logic Pro 9: Audio and Music Production

Notes:

Includes Bonus Chapter From Logic Pro 9 : audio and music production.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-136-11158-1

1-283-07433-8

9786613074331

0-240-81871-7

9780240818719

OCLC:

714569559