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Setting up for stereo mixing

Setting up for stereo mixing - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Setting up for stereo mixing

On bigger productions it's common to perform pre-dub or premix prior to the final mix or re-recording session. This practice allows you to cut down the number of tracks and simplify our track count for the final mix. You would for example combine all your dialog tracks, background fill, ADR, and production effects onto six or eight checkerboard tracks for your final mix. Although when you do your premix you'll be printing your volume levels and some processing like EQ and compression, you should keep it somewhat minimal to keep some possibilities open when all the elements are heard together in the final mix. Here is an example of how you'd set up your dialog pre-dub. So I have my dialog tracks split out here for two scenes like we talked about for doing the dialog edit, but down here I have the tracks that I'm going to premix too and I'll show you how I've broken them out. I gave myself three dialog tracks, Dialog A, B, and C. So Dialog A is going to be your primary print track, say…

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