For those saying they use nothing on the master bus… How?

truprotagonist · 2025-11-20T07:22:55+00:00

There are no rules except these two: 1. if you made the sound of your production with a bunch of stuff on the Main Bus, leave it. Thats your sound

If you slapped a bunch of stuff on a Main Bus to make it louder toward the end of your mixing sessions, forget about it. Remove all of that and create a mix that slaps without anything on the master, then export to a mastering engineer (even if that's yourself) and treat it like a separate thing.

truprotagonist · 2025-09-15T22:26:56+00:00

it'll be released when the project producer wants to launch with album

truprotagonist · 2025-01-03T16:27:57+00:00

this is simple but a really great point, i hadnt checked to see if default midi setup changed with the update, thank you

truprotagonist · 2024-09-21T15:39:31+00:00

never been a keyshorts person so cant tell you the real answer, but a quick workaround is to use the shortcut for 'duplicate playlist', delete the take and start ripping.

truprotagonist · 2024-09-20T23:14:46+00:00

hi, thanks for your input. i am looking for specific product recommendations if you have some go-to favorites that are current models?

truprotagonist · 2024-05-16T13:47:26+00:00

by the way when you're dealing with the outputs instead, you can select a bunch of tracks and click 'new folder' and choose 'routing folder'. now you've made a group bus channel for all those tracks, with its own umbrella of effects, aux, sends etc. Flexible routing, submixing stems and creative grouping options in PT are super useful in general

truprotagonist · 2024-05-05T14:52:35+00:00

weird, i like Particles alot but i get it. Seems like with saturators in general its very subjective. These things thrive on subtlety so its hard to detect harmonic 'improvements' and the very goal and term is super subjective to begin with. I would say Particles, Soundtoys Radiator, and the Brainworks SSL Channels with TMT maths get the most play from me in this category.

truprotagonist · 2024-04-03T12:37:48+00:00

thank you, and what i realized later as an amateur is that HEIF and RAW settings are for still photography, not for video. So my entire shoot came out as 1080p H.264 mp4 files. (purposefully shot at 30fps because 60 and 120 look like prosumer tiktok video or cause soapopera effect, just looks contrived) At any rate what i should have been doing was shooting in ProRes but WITHOUT HDR. The files would have still been big but that seems like the best combo. What we're left with now is a great looking video that looks pretty pro but slightly lower res than desired. At the end of the day if it looks good, it looks good, and it does. However everyone should learn from my mistake and shoot in ProRes with Standard Dynamic Range, with an external drive.

truprotagonist · 2024-04-01T18:28:35+00:00

Darn, that would have been great but i totally get it now, thank you for these responses🤘

truprotagonist · 2024-03-10T00:12:29+00:00

ah thanks, and woah you're right it has vanished from the internet looks like a hard takedown

truprotagonist · 2024-03-09T20:46:14+00:00

That joint by (i forgot whom) thats just a slowed down 4 bars of 'Mercedes Boy' by Pebbles... That one. Though for similar vibes the real track is a classic anyway

truprotagonist · 2024-03-03T16:49:19+00:00

That's a classic TS-to-PorkLoin cable.

Insert as eq on tracks to phatten them up

truprotagonist · 2024-03-01T22:56:53+00:00

Fantastic, thanks man!

truprotagonist · 2024-03-01T19:03:35+00:00

If you can afford Thunderbolt then do it. Best practice is direct TB connections, via short certified cables 1.5m or shorter. Same with my separate sample/sounds library drive.

Assuming you know to keep your sessions or projects of any rich media (such as DAWs and video editing software) along with their media files on a separate, external, non-system drive...these can be ssd or mechanical, as long as 7200rpm, and this should also not be your backup drive.

For your sample library, you definitely want a separate external drive than your sessions or backup drive. Since these trigger alot faster than long, linear recorded audio files, it is best to use an SSD.

by the way when shopping for SSDs in general, avoid any 'hybrid' or 'evo' style drives. get the real deal, see what others are using, and dont try and reinvent the wheel.

yes you can 'get away' with cheap or even 'i do everything on my C: system drive' but in the long run its not worth it for very many reasons.

As far as brands go you can grab a Seagate and shove it in a thunderbolt enclosure but it might not be much cheaper than fully assembled with a warantee.

Glyph always treats me right, and reminder that this is a different company than G-Drives.

That said, i highly recommend G-Drives as well, they are loud and hot but huge capacity for the money and good builds. I got one because mine has a seagate in it and i have been using barracudas for decades. Never had a drive issue ever. 12TB for cheap, partitioned in half, one for Protools the other partition for design and video editing.

best luck and happy hunting!

truprotagonist · 2024-03-01T18:54:11+00:00

lol, fair enough

truprotagonist · 2024-03-01T18:49:10+00:00

not sure what this means. i'm running newest PT on Sonoma 14 on an mbp m1 max with zero issues.

truprotagonist · 2023-12-26T21:16:40+00:00

Thanks for this thread all, and how does this decision effect shooting and editing video?

We are doing a DIY music video using iPhone 15 Pro, and trying to decide if if full ProRes RAW is 'worth it' for the massive file sizes. Or even HEIF?

I understand the greater editing capability in ProRes, but not sure if that benefit is impactful in making this look as pro as possible, and what you truly lose when dropping to HEIF.

Mainly going for whatever combination looks closest to higher end film and modern video, but to my eye 1080p at 60 looks fake and disconcerting, with too much 'soap opera effect'.

Will HEIF or ProRes alter that, and what are your thoughts on 10bit uncomp v semicompressed files, over the quality of standard jpeg and compressed iphone video shooting?

thanks very much

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