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Essential Mastering Techniques for Pro Tools
This is a basic but complete course to introduce beginners and improvers to mastering techniques in Pro Tools. The course covers all commonly-used professional techniques and the student will achieve a full knowledge comparable with the requirements of a professional music producer or sound engineer.
Students who are already advanced in their knowledge and skills will find the course useful to fill in any gaps they might have in their experience.
Course components are relevant to other digital audio workstation mastering plug-ins, to third-party mastering plug-ins, and to hardware mastering processors as many of the concepts, techniques and operational methods are similar or the same.
Course content
The course includes a selection of mixes that would benefit from mastering and starts with basic preparation techniques, covering the following...
- Trimming the start
- Fading/trimming the end
- Removing clicks
- Improving or concealing problems
- Improvement of frequency balance
- Control of dynamics through fader riding
- Control of dynamics through compression
Once the mix has been optimized then the mastering process can begin, using the Maxim mastering limiter plug-in that is included with Pro Tools...
- Threshold
- Ceiling
- Release
- Dither
- Noise shaping
- Mix
- Attenuation meter
The course also further explores how multiband compression prior to the mastering limiter can be performed with only the standard Pro Tools plug-ins.
The course concludes with an examination for loudness requirements for various outlets and release formats...
- WAV download
- Compact disc
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- YouTube
- SoundCloud
- Broadcast to ATSC and EBU standards
Demonstrations
Demonstrations are given on a variety of audio material including...
- Speech
- Acoustic guitar ensemble
- EDM
- Pop
- Rock
Course materials
The course is delivered in video format with detailed audio demonstrations. All audio files are available for download. The course is also provided in HTML format with embedded audio. All materials are downloadable to keep permanently.
Student support
Students of this course are entitled to two years' access to our Student Advice Team to ask any questions directly concerning the topics of the course.
Requirements
Equipment and software:
- Avid Pro Tools (any recent version)
- Audio interface with two or more microphone inputs and phantom power
- Headphone or loudspeaker monitoring
Essential Mastering Techniques for Pro Tools
COURSE CONTENT
- 2 hours video tutorials
- 48 WAV audio files
- HTML version with embedded audio
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IN DETAIL
This is a basic but complete course to introduce beginners and improvers to mastering techniques in Pro Tools. The course covers all commonly-used professional techniques and the student will achieve a full knowledge comparable with the requirements of a professional music producer or sound engineer.
Students who are already advanced in their knowledge and skills will find the course useful to fill in any gaps they might have in their experience.
Course components are relevant to other digital audio workstation mastering plug-ins, to third-party mastering plug-ins, and to hardware mastering processors as many of the concepts, techniques and operational methods are similar or the same.
Course content
The course includes a selection of mixes that would benefit from mastering and starts with basic preparation techniques, covering the following...
- Trimming the start
- Fading/trimming the end
- Removing clicks
- Improving or concealing problems
- Improvement of frequency balance
- Control of dynamics through fader riding
- Control of dynamics through compression
Once the mix has been optimized then the mastering process can begin, using the Maxim mastering limiter plug-in that is included with Pro Tools...
- Threshold
- Ceiling
- Release
- Dither
- Noise shaping
- Mix
- Attenuation meter
The course also further explores how multiband compression prior to the mastering limiter can be performed with only the standard Pro Tools plug-ins.
The course concludes with an examination for loudness requirements for various outlets and release formats...
- WAV download
- Compact disc
- Spotify
- Apple Music
- YouTube
- SoundCloud
- Broadcast to ATSC and EBU standards
Demonstrations
Demonstrations are given on a variety of audio material including...
- Speech
- Acoustic guitar ensemble
- EDM
- Pop
- Rock
Course materials
The course is delivered in video format with detailed audio demonstrations. All audio files are available for download. The course is also provided in HTML format with embedded audio. All materials are downloadable to keep permanently.
Student support
Students of this course are entitled to two years' access to our Student Advice Team to ask any questions directly concerning the topics of the course.
Requirements
Equipment and software:
- Avid Pro Tools (any recent version)
- Audio interface with two or more microphone inputs and phantom power
- Headphone or loudspeaker monitoring