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Pro Tools Tutorial: Using ReWire
Pro Tools is well equipped for creative sound design, but you can massively extend the options open to you by utilising ReWire. Mike Hillier patches in in this Pro Tools Tutorial Anyone who’s...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Keeping Control
If you need to transfer your Pro Tools sessions to another DAW, good working practices will help you do it seamlessly. Mike Hillier keeps order in this Pro Tools Tutorial One of the benefits of...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: The Arrange Window
Learn to use the Arrange window in Pro Tools properly and you’ll find your workflow speeding up considerably. Mike Hillier shares some pro wisdom in this Pro Tools Tutorial When tracking and...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Resolving Latency Issues
Pro Tools LE and M-Powered projects can experience problems caused by latency, but, as Mike Hillier explains, there are ways around the various difficulties in this Pro Tools Tutorial One of the...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: 25 Pro-Tips
Version 9 of Pro Tools brings a number of relatively minor new functions that will make life much easier. Mike Hillier explores the options in this Pro Tools Tutorial Keyboard Focus Mode At the...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Step By Step – Mixing Drums Treatments And FX
Often the foundations and drive of a track, ensuring that the drums sit nicely in a mix is a skill made easier if you know your FX. Mike Hillier gets treatment in this Pro Tools Tutorial Mixing...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Audio Suite Processing
If you’re looking for a new way of working or simply want to delve deeper into Pro Tools, the AudioSuite format offers many possibilities. Mike Hillier explains in this Pro Tools Tutorial Offline...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Getting To Grips With Gain Staging
Setting up your signal chain correctly before you start recording will make for a smoother, less frustrating mixing process. Mike Hillier explains the rules in this Pro Tools Tutorial Proper...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Understanding Error Codes
Working with Pro Tools but finding yourself getting bogged down by unfathomably inexplicit error codes? Rob Boffard gets you back on track in this Pro Tools Tutorial Bounce Handler: This is what...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Advanced Mid-Side Recording and Processing
For this tutorial you will need the DVD project files – if you don’t have the disc you can download them from here If your experience of stereo recording goes only as far as coincident pairs, it’s...
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Pro Tools 8 Workshop – Creating Drones
Every musician making electronic music has their own unique methods for creating drones and evolving pads, whether it’s using found sounds and abusing them with effects and other sound-design...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Mastering In Pro Tools
Pro Tools is, of course, well equipped for mastering, having several very transparent plug-ins. Mike Hillier walks through his process in this Pro Tools Tutorial For this tutorial you’ll need to...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Become a Power User – Part 1: Setting Up A Power Session
A stress-free session will always make for a more successful one – and good preparation will make them more likely. Mike Hillier keeps his house in order. Tempting though it is when starting a new Pro...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Become a Power User – Part 1: Setting Up A Power Session 2
Mike Hillier continues his explanation of the best and most efficient ways to prepare for a power session in Pro Tools… Track Setup 1: Press [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[N] (PC) or [Cmd]+[Shift]+[N] (Mac) to open...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Become a Power User Part 2 – Organising Your Session
Following rules and regulations might seem counterproductive to creativity, but you’ll sure appreciate it when it comes to the mix. Mike Hillier puts everything in its place. For this tutorial you’ll...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Become a Power User Part 3 – Quantising and Editing Drums
A rock-solid beat is key to much of today’s music – but after all, every drummer’s only human… Mike Hillier makes the timing right. For this tutorial you’ll need the project files – Download Here...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Become a Power User Part 4 – Blending Audio and Samples
Editing isn’t always about removing sounds that you don’t want, it can also involve adding sounds into your mix. Mike Hillier layers it up. For this tutorial you’ll need these project files – Download...
View ArticleSecrets of the Studio: Jacob Plant
Jacob Plant is a producer, remixer, and DJ fast becoming one of the hottest properties in dance music. Over the last couple of years he has remixed some huge names including Example, Calvin Harris,...
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Pro Tools Tutorial – The Art of Side Chain Processing
Welcome to a new MusicTech series. Mike Hillier guides you through today’s most cutting-edge and effective production techniques, and kicks things off with side-chaining in Pro Tools… We’re often asked...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Processing with Distortion
Part 2 of a new series of features looking at cutting-edge studio techniques in Pro Tools. This month Mike Hillier uses Pro Tools to show how a little distortion can bring a lot of life… Distortion is...
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