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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)

Considerations for Music Production

The tools and workflows for music production can vary depending on the genre of music being created, and how that music is being recorded. A bluegrass band may simply need one mic in a room as the players move around it (I’ve seen this in person a few times – it’s quite impressive!), whereas an electronic music producer may have no microphone recordings at all and either generate the sound within Pro Tools using Instrument tracks or externally with different synthesizers and record the audio into Pro Tools. Given the massive variety of ways a music project can be implemented, this chapter cannot encompass all methods. Instead, the goal is to provide a number of workflows and recipes that can be applied to different situations.

With this in mind, here are the topics we’ll be covering:

  • Setting the correct mix level
  • Keeping drums in phase
  • Using expanders to create more “punch”
  • Applying...