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
- Nov 12, 2020
- 1 min
Compressors – What is the Knee and What does it do?
As you get better with compressors, you will start playing with other knobs and features. One of these is the knee. The knee refers to...
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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
- 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
- 2 min
Organization (in your Production Studio) Pt. 2
Group Cabling Keep cables grouped together by type (audio, MIDI, mains, etc.). This makes it easier to find faulty cables, patch...
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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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