Chapter 7: Making Your Mix
In This Chapter
Submixing your tracks
Mixing within Pro Tools
Mixing to an external recorder
The final step in mixing your music involves taking all your EQed, panned, processed, and automated tracks and recording them into a stereo pair of tracks. This is often called bouncing your mix. In the old analog days, bouncing meant sending all your tracks to two separate tracks on the same tape deck or to a different tape deck. Nowadays, with Pro Tools, you can create bounces several ways — all of which I cover in this chapter.
In this chapter, I lead you through making your mix either within Pro Tools (in-the-box) or by sending your tracks to a digital or an analog two-track machine — usually a Digital Audio Tape (DAT) or (yes, even today) a reel-to-reel tape deck.
Unless you have a seriously great analog deck and you want to add some of that sought-after “warmth-of-analog” tape sound to your final mix, your best bet is to go with the in-the-box approach — using the Pro Tools Bounce to Disk feature and keeping your music in your computer.
Submixing by Recording ...
