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Bouncing the mix - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Pro Tools: Mixing and Mastering
Bouncing the mix
I'm sure by this point, you've bounced a mix out of Pro Tools using the File > Bounce to > Disk command. But I want to share with you another way for printing or bouncing your mixes internally inside the Pro Tools Mix Bus. How we are going to set this up, is after taking my entire mix and sub mixing it into an aux track; here I have got everything going to the Mix Bus bus, not the outputs 1 and 2, and I am gathering all of that on the aux track called Mix Sub, so you can see this is listening to the Mix Bus bus. So if I play the mix back-- (music playing) I have got everything coming into this aux track. (music playing) Now here, I actually have my Master Fader pointing to the Mix Bus bus, as opposed to my master outputs. And this is going to make sense, once I create my audio track for recording this mix, because I want to make sure all my mastering plug-ins, all of my master fader inserts make it into my bounce. So what I am going to do at this point is create a new stereo audio…
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Understanding mastering5m 13s
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Working with general mastering strategies9m 5s
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Using limiting and compression to maximize track level12m 6s
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Working with multiband compression5m 34s
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Bouncing the mix8m 4s
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Understanding sample rate, bit depth, file formats, and dither9m
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Metering with the DigiRack Phase Scope7m 46s
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Compressing audio for the web10m
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