Pro tools mixing Question

[MERCENARYDIGITAL]

I have a Small project studio and I just recently purchased pro tools 6.1 le.
Most of the bands I record (METAL) have pretty much the same mixer/eq settings
on every song with the exceptions of fades and edits. is there a way to dial in
the mix of one song and easily copy the mixer, insert,aux sends etc.. to every
song and then do the fades and edits? I tried making a template but when I
opened it I still had the audio from the first song on It.

I'm recording to a HD recorder then transfering the wave files in Via firewire

Thanks for any helpful advice

Scott

[Sugarite]

> I have a Small project studio and I just recently purchased pro tools 6.1
le.
> Most of the bands I record (METAL) have pretty much the same mixer/eq
settings
> on every song with the exceptions of fades and edits. is there a way to
dial in
> the mix of one song and easily copy the mixer, insert,aux sends etc.. to
every
> song and then do the fades and edits? I tried making a template but when
I
> opened it I still had the audio from the first song on It.

Delete the audio, leave the track configurations, save as "Metal Template"
or whatever.

When you go to use it, open Metal Template, immediately save under the song
name, then start importing audio files, move audio into appropriate tracks,
delete new tracks from importing. Unfortunately at no point can you have
more than 32 tracks so you might have to import in smaller batches, but
that's the way it works.

I know a guy that uses the playlisting feature to basically have all the
song on an album stacked on top of each other in the same session, and a few
people that just line the songs up end to end to keep them in the same
session. Just ways of not having to rebuild identical sessions.

[Winter]

<snip>
> > Most of the bands I record (METAL) have pretty much the same mixer/eq
> settings
> > on every song with the exceptions of fades and edits. is there a way to
> dial in
> > the mix of one song and easily copy the mixer, insert,aux sends etc.. to
> every
> > song and then do the fades and edits?
<snip>
> Delete the audio, leave the track configurations, save as "Metal Template"
> or whatever.

Another option is to keep all the songs in one session. Although I usually
only do this for basic tracks, I will sometimes mix a demo or short album
like this if time & budget don't allow for more individualized attention.
Obviously in a scenario like this it's very easy to keep the same processing
for every song. Song-to-song processing changes would either have to be
automated or else be changed after mixing/bouncing the previous tune. Keep
in mind that working like this will tax your CPU & DSP a lot more.

Later,
--
Winter
www.EMBStudios.com
A World of Good Music
(510)325-1029

[littledog]

The suggestion about importing tracks from one song, deleting the
audio, and then dragging your audio from the second song onto the
first song's tracks will work just fine.

But sometimes it's easier to do it the other way around: import the
tracks from song one as before. But instead of dragging the audio from
song two's tracks to song one's tracks, option-drag all the plug-ins
from each song one channel to the corresponding channel on song two.
You can't drag aux sends, but they are easy enough to recreate. The
aux returns from song one just leave in the session - use them as is
for song two.

Then delete all the original song one tracks including their audio.
(Except for the aux returns you are still using.)

(NOTE: It's better to option-drag the plug-ins so that the original
tracks with multiple plug-ins stay intact until you succeed in copying
everything. Otherwise some of the lower-slot plugs might disappear
when you suddently drag away the first plug-in in a chain that turned
a track from mono to stereo.)

[Greg Thompson]

In article >,
(littledog) wrote:

> The suggestion about importing tracks from one song, deleting the
> audio, and then dragging your audio from the second song onto the
> first song's tracks will work just fine.
>

If you're running OS X on a mac and protools 6, the Import track
information in the File menu (similar to the old import tracks) allows
you to load everything from the tracks in another session (including or
excluding the audio) and allows you to map it to the tracks in your
current session. It's the biggest reason I upgraded to Protools 6.

Greg