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Crafting your mix from start to finish

Crafting your mix from start to finish - Pro Tools Tutorial

From the course: Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools

Crafting your mix from start to finish

Every mix engineer has his or her own method for starting and finishing a mix. Some like to start with the drums while others like to start with the vocal. Because each mix starts at a different place, especially now that many producers are mixing their own music during the arranging process, I can't tell you where to start your mix, but I can tell you how I approach many of my mixes. The first thing that I generally do is import Effects templates of Aux return tracks in my I/O setup, and then I start routing my tracks, routing my sub mixes. Now I'll talk about making and importing things from templates in another video, but what this is going to do, it's going to speed up the mixing process. So I have a lot of my common tools already laid out for me. And then generally what I do in a song like Take Me Down, sort of a rock pop tune, is I'll start getting the drums and the bass. So I got a really solid rhythm section. So I'll start by bringing in the drums. (Drum solo.) Then when I…

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