Compression Dos & Don’ts
To wrap things up regarding compressors, I will offer 3 Dos and Don’ts as my final word for now. These are things to always keep in mind...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 13, 2020
- 1 min
Creating a Click Track (in Pro Tools)
Using a click track during recording is, of course, imperative. We can’t do our work if we can’t play to the beat! Luckily for us Pro...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 13, 2020
- 4 min
6 Recording Myths – Busted!
It is hard to learn how to record and mix music today. With so much information available on the web, sometimes it is hard to know if the...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 13, 2020
- 3 min
10 Tips for a great vocal recording
Here are ten quick tips to think about the next time you record vocals: 1) Warm Up: Every vocalist needs to warm up. You wouldn’t run...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 13, 2020
- 2 min
Calculating File Sizes (How much hard drive space does it take to record a song?)
So . . . you want to record a song and you’re running out of space on the computer or external hard drive? Wondering if you have enough...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 12, 2020
- 3 min
Organization Pt. 3 (patchbays)
Patchbays Having a patchbay helps to optimize your signal routing and organization. Even the most modest of studio setups can benefit...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Timebase in Pro Tools
In Pro Tools, material (audio or midi) on a track is associated with a type of Time Scale. All track types can be set to either...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
Powering Up Your Music Production System in the Proper Order
Did you know that it is important to power up your system and equipment in a certain order? In the early days, for me, I didn’t know that!...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Recording from sound modules without effects
If you’re involved with a lot of production work and do a lot of MIDI work like I do, you record a lot of projects using your sound...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Unmount hard drives from within Pro Tools
Have you ever tried to eject a hard drive from your system that you used in a Pro Tools session while Pro Tools was still up and running?...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Oct 12, 2020
- 2 min
Organizing sessions in your DAW
I don’t like wasting time while working on a mix. Being organized in a session is critical. A lot of time can be wasted looking for...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Demystifying Pro Tools Preference Settings part 3/3
OK today let’s first go over the Editing tab. There’s really only one item I want to make sure you know about. At the bottom of the page...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Demystifying Pro Tools Preference Settings part 3/3
OK today let’s first go over the Editing tab. There’s really only one item I want to make sure you know about. At the bottom of the page...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Demystifying Pro Tools Preference Settings part 2/3
In the last blog post I covered the first tab under pro tools preferences – Display. Today I will cover Operation Preferences. First...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Demystifying Pro Tools Preference Settings part 2/3
In the last blog post I covered the first tab under pro tools preferences – Display. Today I will cover Operation Preferences. First...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Demystifying Pro Tools Preferences part 1/3
I remember how terrified I felt going to the Preferences (under Setup) tab! I looked at all that and said “Maaann! I am NOT touching...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Demystifying Pro Tools Preferences part 1/3
I remember how terrified I felt going to the Preferences (under Setup) tab! I looked at all that and said “Maaann! I am NOT touching...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Stay organized by colorizing the tracks in Pro Tools
To help stay organized in Pro Tools, I colorize my tracks, MIDI channels, and sometimes regions. My master fader is always one color, the...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Stay organized by colorizing the tracks in Pro Tools
To help stay organized in Pro Tools, I colorize my tracks, MIDI channels, and sometimes regions. My master fader is always one color, the...
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Timothy Wheeler
- Jan 24, 2018
- 2 min
Creating and using templates in Pro Tools 8
Even though Pro Tools offers QuickStart session templates, you may choose to do what I do, which is create your very own unique template...
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