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Setting up your session

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Setting up your session

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Before you even get into mixing, it's best to set up your session so the mix is both a lot more efficient and keeps you from making any mistakes as well. In this video, I will show you all the different things that you can do to prep your DAW session. Before anything else, the first thing I would like to do is make a copy of the file. So if this was the file that we recorded into, the first thing I will do is I will right-click on the mouse, I will bring up this dialog, and I will go down and say Duplicate. Next thing I want to do is I want to rename it, and since this is going to be a mix, I am going to call it mix1. The reason why I want to call it mix1 is, if you are doing this right, you may have a lot of mixes. You will go 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and there may be up to 100. It's not unheard of to go that far. Many times what I'll also do is add a date right behind it as well. That's not absolutely necessary because you can see every file over here is time stamped so it tells you when the…

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