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Pro Tools Tutorial: Cutting-edge Production Techniques – Mixing Into the...
Stereo buss processing can push your mixes forward at breakneck speed. Mike Hillier straps in for the ride… One of the most common problems we come across is a confusion between how to use the stereo...
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Cutting-edge Production Techniques: Mixing Into the Stereo Buss – Continued
Next stop With the compressor in place before performing any rides you will find that, as you push up, at some point it stops rising as quickly and the compression starts hitting harder, bringing...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Cutting Edge Production Techniques – The Multiple Buss...
Mixing into a single stereo buss isn’t the only approach. Mike Hillier looks at how to work with stems and multiple busses… The stereo buss techniques we looked at last time get a complete overhaul in...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Cutting Edge Production Techniques – Processing The Returns
Effects sends don’t have to end with the effect itself – there’s still plenty of scope for more sonic manipulation. Mike Hillier returns to the scene… Watch any experienced mixer and you’ll see they...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Cutting Edge Production Techniques – Delay Based Effects
Delay is a crucial tool, and it can be used for far more than just producing simple echoes. Mike Hillier plays with time… Delay is one of the fundamental effects we can apply. A short slapback can...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Cutting Edge Production Techniques: Know Your Reverbs
Reverbs come in all manner of shapes and sizes, and picking the right one is crucial. Mike Hillier reflects on what makes the perfect space… Reverbs are back in fashion, and in a big way. After what...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Cutting Edge Production Techniques: Aligning Multi-Track...
When it comes to recording with multiple mics there’s one aspect that you may not have considered. Mike Hillier looks at how to keep your tracks in line… Recording a drum kit is a complex task. It...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Understand EQ – Step-by-Step
Mike Hillier brings the EQ into play in this step-by-step For this tutorial you’ll need the project file – download here 1: This month we’ve used a variation on last month’s project, with a single...
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Pro Tools Tutorial: Understanding EQ
Knowing what makes your EQs tick will help you get the most from them. Mike Hillier looks under the curve… For this tutorial you will need the project files – download here Last time we looked at the...
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Mastering: Part One – Wrangling! – Step-by-Step
Mike Hillier continues the first part of a new mastering series with a step by step… 1: Fall starts with a solo acoustic guitar, and slowly builds up to a more full arrangement as it progresses. There...
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Mastering Tutorial: Part One – Wrangling!
In the first of a six-part series on mastering, Mike Hillier takes a look at the frequency domain of the mix. Download the Project Files and Video here Example Track: For this workshop, we’re using the...
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Mastering Tutorial: Part Two – Attack & Release Step-by-Step
Mike Hillier continues his second mastering tutorial with a step by step guide to using compressors effectively… For this workshop we’re using the song By The Horns by The Giving Style, available at...
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Mastering Tutorial: Part Two – Attack & Release
In our latest mastering workshop Mike Hillier turns his attention to the use and misuse of compressors in mastering… For many engineers, compression is one of the toughest tools to crack. The basic...
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Mastering Tutorial: Part Three – Mid-Side Processing Step-by-Step
Mike Hillier continues his mastering tutorial looking at mid-side processing with a step by step guiding through using it on a track… 1:The Great Divide hinges on a fingerpicked acoustic guitar and a...
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Mastering Tutorial: Part Three – Mid-Side Processing
Even among mastering engineers, mid-side processing is seen as something of a ‘dark art’. Mike Hillier unravels the mysteries of M/S… For this workshop we’re using The Great Divide by Edgar Wallace...
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Mastering Tutorial: Part Five – Setting Levels and Limiting
To many people, making the mix loud is the whole point of mastering, but to others it’s more contentious. Mike Hillier tries to hit the sweet spot… This month, we’re using the track Foreign Waters –...
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Mastering Tutorial: Part Six – Running Parts
The final process in the mastering stage doesn’t involve processing the audio at all. Mike Hillier readies his printer.. The final step of mastering comes once all the tracks for the release are...
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Mastering Tutorial: Part Four – Separating The Frequencies
Like mid-side, multi-band processing is one of the tools that gives mastering its mystique. Mike Hillier delves into this often misunderstood world… This month, we’re using the track Breaking Point...
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Using Track Presets in Pro Tools 2018: Step-By-Step (Continued)
Mike Hillier continues his guide to Pro Tools’ new track presets, where he looks at creating presets for live and virtual instruments… 7. To build our own Track presets, start by building up a template...
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Track Presets in Pro Tools 2018
Pro Tools 2018 brings with it a new way of importing your templates, based on a favoured “hack”. Mike Hillier helps you get to grips with the new Track Presets function… The switch from major updates...
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