Pro Tools 9: The Mixers Toolkit

In This Chapter

Listening Through the Original Tracks

The Alt and Shift Key Secret

The Fat Finger Secret

Drum Editing Prep

Creating an Escape Route

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Session Setup

  Listening Through the Original Tracks

Depending on who you are talking to, the 1970s were the greatest decade in recent history. Oh sure, we had to put up with all the crappy disco music we would ever need, but for a few blissful years, little programmable sequencers freed us from plague of human drummers. (Ba-Zing!). But seriously, as a wannabe drummer myself, I sympathize with the plight of any musician who has to have four limbs playing different rhythms simultaneously. Above all, however, I sympathize with the engineer who has to fix a challenging drum performance. Fortunately, ...