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Setting up your effects

Setting up your effects - Pro Tools Tutorial

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Setting up your effects

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Mixes go a lot faster if you set up your effects before you begin your mix. In this movie, I'm going to show you a couple of quick and easy effects setups that'll sound good for not only mixing, but tracking and overdubs as well. It's a good idea to have at least some effects set up before you start the mix so you won't break your concentration to set them up later. The first thing we're going to do is set up two effects, and these are going to be just reverb. I'm going to go up to the Track menu, I'm going to say New, and since reverbs are usually in stereo, we're going to have two stereo aux inputs. The first thing we'll do is name our aux inputs, and we'll name them Short Rev and Long Rev. Now the next thing is we'll insert some reverbs into these channels. So on the Short Rev, we'll come up to Insert A > multichannel plug-in, and come down to Reverb. I happen to like the D-Verb, so we'll add that. And usually a short reverb is added to the drums, especially the SNARE. So we're…

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