From the course: Music Production Secrets
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Use phase cancellation to change tracks - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Music Production Secrets
Use phase cancellation to change tracks
- [Voiceover] Years ago someone gave me a mix to work on that contained one stereo instrumental track and some vocal overdubs. The instrumental was really cool, but it was very static, was always the same volume, the same instrumentation, and at some point in the song I wanted something to shift, and I wanted to hear one instrument pop out, and other instruments to be reduced, so to speak. So what I did is I used this phase-cancellation trick to make it happen, and I'll show you how to do this. So here's our mix of the song, we got this section here where a guitar solo starts. (rock music with prominent guitar lick) So what I wanna do is have something change there. We'll make a copy of this track, duplicate, and then this whole section where the solo's happening, I'm gonna just cut that out of our new duplicated track, and then I'm gonna put some kinda fade-in and fade-out action. So now if I play this back, it's just going to boost that section of course. (guitar solo plays) You…
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