Pro Tools 9: The Mixers Toolkit

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Halftitle
3. Title
4. Copyright
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgments
7. Chapter 1 Session Overview
   1. Intro and Overview
   2. Demo Files and Web Site
   3. Who You Are?
   4. Shortcuts and Menus
8. Chapter 2 Session Setup
   1. Listening Through the Original Tracks
   2. The Alt and Shift Key Secret
   3. The Fat Finger Secret
   4. Drum Editing Prep
   5. Creating an Escape Route
9. Chapter 3 Drum Editing
   1. Manual Drum Pocketing
   2. Roughing in the Drums
   3. Fixing Timing Trends
   4. Drum Transient Quantizing
   5. Beat Detecting Multitrack Drums
   6. Conforming Drum Edits to a Grid
   7. Smoothing Audio Gaps
   8. Method 3: Elastic Audio
   9. Getting into Trouble with Elastic Audio
   10. Quantizing Drums with Elastic Audio
   11. Combining Drum Editing Methods
10. Chapter 4 Bass Guitar
    1. Setting Up Your Bass Pocket
    2. Elastic Audio on Bass
    3. Quantizing Bass
    4. Warping to Preserve Bass Attack
    5. Pocketing Bass against Guitars
    6. Bass Pocketing Judgment Calls
11. Chapter 5 Guitar Mixing
    1. Roughing in Guitars
    2. Creating a Master
    3. Mono-Fy Your Mix
    4. The Filtering Secret
    5. Initial Guitar Levels
    6. Acoustic Guitar Compression
    7. ABing Compressors
    8. Toggling between Presets
    9. Mixing Auxillary Guitars
    10. Prioritizing Track Secret
    11. Fugue Guitars
    12. EQing Clean Guitars
    13. Improving Stereo Image with EQ
    14. Testing the Stereo Guitar Mix
12. Chapter 6 Bus Mixing
    1. Setting Up Submix Busses
    2. Solo Safeing
    3. Sequential Inputs Trick
    4. Reverb Returns
    5. Drum Verb
    6. Setting Good Reverb Levels
13. Chapter 7 Drum Mixing
    1. EQing Kick
    2. Drum Compression
    3. EQing Snare
    4. Tom Processing
    5. Phase-Checking Drums
    6. Capturing Safety Drums
    7. Manual Drum Replacement
    8. Parallel Drum Compression
    9. “All-Buttons-In” Compression
    10. Adding Urgency to the Drums
    11. Multiple Track Output Trick
14. Chapter 8 Vocal Mixing
    1. Vocal Compression Secrets
    2. Vocal EQ Technique
    3. Vocal Delays
    4. Verb versus Delay
    5. Filtering Delays
    6. Make Your Own Presets
    7. Vocal Riding with Automation
    8. Tweaking Your Vocal Ride
    9. Level Comparing with Pre- and Post-Roll
    10. Micro-Tweaking Level Trick
    11. Vocal EQ Effects
    12. Ear Referencing
15. Chapter 9 Timing Fixes
    1. Acoustic Guitar Automation Tweaks
    2. Mixing Electric Guitars
    3. Pocketing Electric Guitars
    4. Pocketing Fugue Guitars with Elastic Audio
    5. Quantizing Chunky Guitars
    6. Fixing Acoustic Timing
16. Chapter 10 Premastering
    1. Loudness Wars
    2. Premastering EQ
    3. Pre- versus Post-Fader Metering
    4. Maxim-izing Your Mix
    5. Identifying Overcompression
17. Chapter 11 Final Mix
    1. Master Fade
    2. Bouncing to Disk
    3. Closing Thoughts
18. Chapter 12 Pro Tools Systems
    1. Finding the Right Pro Tools System for You
       1. Pro Tools 9 Universal Needs
       2. Pro Tools 9 (Basic System): $699+
       3. Pro Tools HD Native: $5695+
       4. Pro Tools HD: $10,000+
19. Index
20. Bonus Chapter from Logic Pro 9: Audio and Music Production