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Here’s a tip for those of you that record a lot by yourselves. I keep a demo session around, basically set up for two microphones and a virtual instrument. It’s the quickest way for me to play guitar/piano/bass/whatever, sing something and see if it works or not. Often I don’t even record entire songs, just [...]

Myth: It’s better to use aux tracks over master faders [because master faders change how Pro Tools operate]. Truth: While there might be some workflow advantages to using aux tracks in place of master faders, inserting one makes no difference in the pure operation of Pro Tools. Master faders are actually in your session whether [...]

If you’re anything like me, you’ll eventually find yourself scrolling through your plug-ins while realizing that plenty of them are actually never used. Why have them there? They’ll just slow you down. Instead of uninstalling them, just move them to the unused plug-in folder. On Mac it’s located in: Library/Application Support/Digidesign. EDIT: With Pro Tools [...]

My favorite combo at the moment, what’s yours? Did you know that you can setup a default EQ and dynamic plugin? And also choose which plugins you need quick access too? The benefit of this is that you don’t need to dig into that looong list of plugins.

One very nice thing you can do to speed up your workflow is to make your own default presets. If you find yourself using the same plugins with the same settings over and over then this will save you a lot of time.

Myth: There’s nothing wrong with bounce to disk. Truth: Bounce to disk does not always play back (and thus record) the session correctly, at least it didn’t before. Avid/Digidesign employees can say whatever they want, I’ve experienced this myself. Sometimes automation will not be able to keep up when bouncing but will when played back. [...]

Some claim you can’t have pink nightmares. Infected Mushroom says you can, and this is how you create them…