From the course: Mixing and Mastering with Pro Tools

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Working with plug-in settings

Working with plug-in settings

In the past, engineers had to use complex recall sheets to manually record and recall the settings of analog gear in their studio. Sometimes taking hours to recall a complex mix. Fortunately today, all plug-ins in Pro Tools support a built-in librarian system for storing and recalling settings or presets. These presets allow you to quickly access a preset sound for that plug-in and are a great way of working across multiple sessions. For example, having the same EQ on a singer across multiple songs. So if we look at a plug-in, I'll look at the plug-in on the KickBus track, the EQ. We can see that every plug-in in Pro Tools is framed by the same plug-in window, and here in the center, I have the Librarian menu, which allows me to access all of those presets that came built-in to that plug-in. So if I wanted to access one of these Kick Drum presets, like Kick Monster, I could select that and it would recall that setting for that specific plug-in. Now many plug-ins come with these…

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