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The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By : Emiliano Paternostro
Book Image

The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook

By: Emiliano Paternostro

Overview of this book

Pro Tools has long been an industry-standard Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) for audio professionals, but it can often be overwhelming for new and experienced users alike. The Pro Tools 2023 Post-Audio Cookbook acts as a reference guide to the software and breaks down each stage of a project into manageable phases. From planning a session, editing a sequence, performing a mix to printing the final masters, you can approach this book either sequentially or peruse the self-contained recipes. You’ll come to grips with workflows for music production, motion picture, and spoken word production, helping you gain expertise in the area of your choice. You'll learn aspects of music mixing like side chain processing to keep instruments from overshadowing each other and conforming for motion picture. The author’s expertise with Pro Tools will help you discover and incorporate different techniques into your workflows. You’ll also learn to build consistent and replicable workflows and templates by understanding what happens behind the scenes in Pro Tools. With this cookbook, you’ll be able to focus on the creative aspects of your audio production and not get mired by the technical hurdles. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to handle even the most complex features of Pro Tools to deliver immaculate results for your clients.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Shaping Sounds with Plugins and Effects

Volume is an integral part of the mixing process, but the most creative and challenging parts of any mix are deciding which plugins and effects to use and how to apply them. You can use plugins to repair audio that has technical problems, and you can also shape the way they sound and interact with each other. Used to good effect, you can invoke powerful reactions from the listener and provide information to the audience that wasn’t there in the audio on its own. In this chapter, we’ll look at the fundamental tools used to mold and sculpt sounds and how to combine them for specific use cases. You’ll learn when and why to apply things such as Equalization (EQ), and how to best use it for different situations. All the examples shown will use stock Pro Tools plugins, but we’ll also touch on some of the other popular plugin offerings by third-party vendors.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following key topics...