How to Prepare a Mix in Pro Tools: Colour, Group & Bus Your Tracks (Part 1)
Prepare your Pro Tools mix by colouring and arranging tracks, creating edit and mix groups, and routing related tracks to auxiliary submixes with solo-safe returns. In this video, using Pro Tools, we demonstrate the steps required before mixing. This can be a huge time saver and will help you concentrate on listening once you start the mixing process. Here are the topics covered: Coloring Arranging of Tracks Grouping of Tracks Bussing Please check out the continuation of this in Part 2 which focusses on Effects, Markers and Memory Locations Please visit our website : http://nathanielschool.com/ Follow us on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/nathanielmusic #ProTools #MixingTips #MusicProduction Chapters 00:00 Prepare and organise a Pro Tools mix 00:51 Colour the tracks 02:13 Arrange related tracks together 03:40 Create track groups 06:00 Group controls: volume, solo and mute 07:09 Route related tracks to a submix bus 09:02 Solo-safe the auxiliary track 09:43 Apply EQ to the guitar submix 11:10 Create submixes for the other groups 12:22 Control backing vocals with one fader 13:39 Recap: ready to start mixing
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