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Building the mix from the toms - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Audio Mixing Bootcamp
Building the mix from the toms
Many mixers feel that when they build their mix from the kick or snare the tom fills get lost when they enter the song. That's why some mixers prefer to build their drum mix from the toms and build the rest of the mix around them. In this movie, I will show you just how to do that. So in order to start from the toms, the first thing we're going to have to do is find a place in the song where the toms are playing. What I am going to do is hit Command+5. That's going to bring up our memory locations. And I have already selected a memory location where the drum fills happen. So we come down here to Drum Fill, click on that, and now we should have a nice drum fill to start from. The first thing I will do is I will bring up tom number one. It doesn't matter which tom you start from in this case. I will just bring up tom number one because it says number one. We'll be able to adjust it a little bit later. The big thing is we want to be able to hear this and all the other toms without…
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Learning the principles of building a mix1m 1s
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Assigning the drums to a subgroup3m 55s
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Building the mix from the kick10m 8s
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Building the mix from the snare8m 46s
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Building the mix from the toms5m 25s
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Building the mix from the overhead mics3m 53s
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Checking the drum phase4m 44s
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Balancing direct and miked bass channels3m 36s
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Building the mix from the bass3m 26s
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Building the mix from the vocals4m 19s
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Balancing the rhythm section2m 44s
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Balancing the rest of the instruments with the rhythm section5m 22s
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Making a mix without building it4m 20s
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Balancing the harmony vocals2m 35s
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