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Downmixing, encoding, and using Neyrinck plug-ins - Pro Tools Tutorial
From the course: Pro Tools: Audio for Film and Video
Downmixing, encoding, and using Neyrinck plug-ins
Your surround mixes might sound great in your 5.1 equipped studio, but with all the flexibility of Pro Tools, you might need to work on them when a six channel speaker setup just isn't possible. Downmixing is the concept of folding down your 5.1 mixes into less channels. In this movie we'll explore how to take a 6-channel surround mix and downmix it to monitor and stereo using the Neyrinck surround tool that come with a complete production toolkit. The mix of this project has a few surround mix moves going on in it. If you wanted to listen in two channel stereo like we are now, we would miss some of the surround mix moves that are happening. For example, in this crash scene we've got one of the crash sounds we've enhanced with surround reverb. Right now we are just listening to stereo and if I play it back, we miss it. Let me solo the track and let's hear it. (Crash!) So all we hear is just the left/right component, but I'm not hearing any reverb and surround. Of course~ Because we…
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