Week 31 - Introduction to Surround Sound, Phase Aligning

Question 1

What is the highest amount of channels you can have on 1 track?

Answer 1

8

Question 2

What do the divergence controls allow you to do?

Answer 2

Let you determine panning “accuracy”

100% allows discrete panning to speakers

Below 100%, tracks will be heard in neighboring speakers even when hard panned to one speaker

Question 3

What does auto glide do?

Answer 3

Lets you pan by clicking new locations in the panner grid

The panning position will glide from point to point using the auto-glide time (in the mixing prefs)

Question 4

How do multi-mono plugins work in pro tools?

Answer 4

Creates a mono plugin on each track channel

A multi-mono EQ3 plugin on a 5.0 track is like 5 copies of a mono EQ3 (one for each channel)

Controls can be linked for all channels, or tailored for each channel

A multi-mono EQ3 plugin on a 5.0 track can be used to EQ the centre differently from the left or right

Question 5

How can we change how controls are linked between channels on a multi-mono plugin?

Answer 5

In the plugin menu you can set how controls are linked between channels

The channel selector shows you a specific channel’s parameters

Controls of all channels are linked with the masterlink

The link enable buttons allow you to link specific channels controls

Question 6

How can we sample align with stock plugins?

Answer 6

Pro Tools comes with a stock delay plugin called Time Adjuster

Time adjuster allows for 1 sample increments starting at 4 samples

You can also use any stock delay plugins and delay by millisecond amounts

Question 7

How can we sample align manually?

Answer 7

Set your nudge value to samples

Set your amount to 1 sample

Nudge your audio around 1 sample at a time