110: 12: Advances Mixing Techniques

Question 1

What is the purpose of a master fader? How do you assign a bus to a master fader?

Answer 1

Use as a stereo master volume control

Use the audio output path selector

Question 2

When is it necessary to apply dither? Where should you insert a dither plugin?

Answer 2

When mixing down to a different bit depth. Dither is applied on the master fader (post)

Question 3

What is the difference between “types” of POW-r dither?

Answer 3

Type 1: used for solo instruments, spoken word
Type 2: used for rock and pop music
Type 3: used for classical and orchestral, also effective for pop and rock

Question 4

What is the purpose of grouping tracks? What is the keyboard shortcut to create a group from the selected tracks?

Answer 4

Having the tracks in a group be edited and/or mixed in the same way. Cmd click to select multiple tracks. Cmd g to group.

Question 5

What are some of the parameters that are affected by edit groups? What are some of the parameters that can be affected by mix groups?

Answer 5

Edit: track views, track heights, Timebases, elastic audio plugin assignments, audio and midi editing functions, playlist views, automation editing functions.

Mix: main volume level, track mute settings, track solo settings, send levels and mutes, automation mode settings

Question 6

How can you activate or reactive a single group? How can you globally disable or re-enable all groups?

Answer 6

Clicking the group name in the groups list.

Groups list popup> suspend all groups OR cmd shift g. To reactivate, repeat the last step.

Question 7

How can you show only tracks that are members of a given group? How can you select all members of a group?

Answer 7

Right click on the group name in the groups list and select “show only tracks in group” OR control click the group’s name in the group list.

Select the group in the groups list (left column circles)

Question 8

How can you identify group members of tracks in the mix window?

Answer 8

Click a channel’s group ID, choose tracks from the popup submenu.

Question 9

What are some options for modifying or deleting a group? Can you modify or delete the All group?

Answer 9

Modify the name, type, option, and track membership.

No.

Question 10

Describe type process of creating a drum submaster. What kind of track is commonly used for a submaster?

Answer 10

Create a new aux input track
Select all drum tracks
Hold option and select a specific bus for all drum tracks
Set the input of the aux track to the corresponding bus
Set the output for he aux track