From the course: Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools
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Bouncing the mix - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools
Bouncing the mix
So I'm sure by this point, you've bounced a mix out of Pro Tools using the File > Bounce to > Disk command, but I want to share with you another way of printing or bouncing your mixes internally inside of Pro Tools using the Mix Bus. So remember what I'm doing here in this demo session is I'm taking everything, and anything that's not already been submixed is been mixed into the Mix Bus bus that I named. Now all of that is making it's way down here to the end of this session and filtering into the Mix Sub aux track. So you can see this aux track is picking up everything that's coming off of that Mix Bus and funneling it down onto this single fader. Now we also have a Master Fader that's set to that same Mix Bus and that's allowed me to get a sense of how those signal are summing together. Remember, I could trim that Master Fader down to prevent clipping at output, and I'm also going to attach any effects that I'm working with here on the Master Fader. Now what I want to do is I want…
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Understanding mastering4m 15s
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Bouncing the mix7m 9s
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Working with general mastering strategies8m 50s
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Using limiting and compression to maximize track level10m 57s
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Working with multi-band compression7m 9s
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Understanding sample rate, bit depth, file formats, and dither7m 30s
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Using Pro Tools for CD track sequencing10m 11s
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Compressing audio for the web9m 41s
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