Setting up Grid Mode in Pro Tools and using the related Nudge feature can really speed up your work. In this Premium Tutorial, Julian Rodgers explains how to take control of these settings from the keyboard and looks at some of the less well-known features of these settings.
Mid Side processing can achieve things that can’t be done in other ways, it’s a well-known stereo microphone technique but a stereo signal can be treated as a Mid and a Side channel just as readily as it can be a Left and a Right signal. In this Premium Tutorial, Julian looks at how you can access the mid and side components of a stereo signal without having to use any third-party plugins.
This week's featured free plug-in from our free plug-ins database is Midside Matrix from Goodhertz that pares down their mid/side processor plug-in - Midside, to just the essentials: mid/side matrixing, gains, monitoring, & metering.
Pro Tools 2020 promises to bring Folder Tracks, a feature I’d never wanted until I saw it. Then I wanted it a lot. What can those of us who don’t have control surfaces do to quickly show and hide related groups of tracks like a basic Folder Track will be able to Pro Tools 2020? In this Premium tutorial, Julian Rodgers shows his approach.
Capturing sounds using an MS array of a cardioid mic with a Fig 8 offers several advantages over coincident arrays like XY. One potential disadvantage is that MS material can be more complicated to deal with in your session. In this Premium tutorial Julian Rodgers offers three different approaches, each with distinct advantages.
In this week's Friday Free Plug-in, we are featuring MSED from Voxengo, a professional audio encoder-decoder for mid-side processing which is able to encode an incoming stereo signal into mid-side and vice versa, decoding a mid-side signal pair into stereo signal.
In this free video tutorial, brought to you with the support of Plugin Alliance, Pro Tools Expert team member Julian Rodgers uses the Alpha compressor on the output of a mix using the M/S mode to introduce width. To audition more easily when setting up the mid and sides channels Julian uses bx_control V2 which has mid/side solo functions to help set up the Alpha compressor.
In this free video tutorial, you will see how easy it is to monitor M/S recordings live in Pro Tools without any special plug-ins.
In this free video tutorial, Pro Tools Expert Team member Julian Rodgers looks at the Elysia MusEQ from Plugin Alliance. This Plug-In offers a meticulous software model of the original hardware unit, with all its colour and nuance. Learn as Julian tours the UI and illustrates three useful tricks which aren't immediately obvious.