Got a really quick and useful tip for you in today’s installment of Pro Tools Diary. In this post you’ll learn how to fire up a session with all its plugins inactive. I know what you’re thinking: “Why the heck would I need this?”. Well, I think there are pretty good reasons, indeed. When You …
A tasteful use of reverbs is one of those not-so-secret things that set the pros apart from the amateurs. I would argue it’s almost as important as things like compression and EQ. For instance, if you lose that chorusing effect on your piano, your mix won’t likely fall apart; if you lose the reverb, I …
I love hardware toys, twisting knobs, working with microphones and all that stuff, and I love plugins as well, especially if they can bring something different to the table. (You know, there are too many plugins doing roughly the same stuff out there!) With today’s post I want to introduce you a really cool plugin I …
No. You read it right. The headline is correct. It’s quite common for many of us home studio mixers to think the answer behind a super-wide mix resides behind using lots of stereo tracks, while in fact that’s not true. Sure, stereo instruments are a great thing, but over-abusing them it’s not a good idea. Paradoxically, …
If you’ve been mixing or recording for a while, then you might have heard people talking about checking mixes on the car stereo. It is actually a very good habit you should get… But why? Why that car stereo perspective is so important? And why shouldn’t you skip that test before setting a mix done? …
Sometimes you may need to open up multiple instances of the same plugin while working on a session (console emulation anyone?)… Unfortunately, by default each plugin opens up with a factory preset loaded, that may or may not be what you need. It might be just an empty preset, meaning it will do nothing, for instance… Or …