6 Pro Tools Tips That Will Make You Love Life Again

[@ThrillaPark]

Kill that background music after a short while and you got a perfect vid.

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks man.

[@AUTOMATTICD]

Yes please!

[@aubreyaura3579]

Yessss it’s amazing but it’s so hard to focus but IM DOIN IT LOL

[@aubreyaura3579]

There’s soooo much good information here thank youuu

[@Leroy_allen]

yeah its really a bit to loud haha

[@mikecole4489]

Grouping changes your workflow. Saves you so much time

[@AndrewMasters]

Mike Cole grouping.. there’s always something. I think I briefly mentioned it..

[@dinobelli6360]

I love your channel, Andrew. You’re in my top 5 (maybe top 3) recording/mixing/mastering KZbin channels. It’s you, Graham, Colt, Joe, and Warren. Keep rocking, brother. Thanks for providing such valuable content.

[@AndrewMasters]

Dino Belli thanks dude!

[@moliver_xxii]

Joe Gilder? :-)

[@dinobelli6360]

@@moliver_xxii nailed it!

[@laz288]

Great video and tips. One thing was on you were a little off on the hardware buffer setting. Lowering the hardware buffer means the processor has to work “much harder” to keep up with the demand and has little room to buffer the processing. You can think of it like a assembly line where someone puts a widget on your table then you box it. With small buffer its one person handing one widget at a time to your table and you boxing it. If one worker lags or you lag the process is messed up. A large buffer you can have more widgets loading on one table while you box them. This is the basic function of all computers (memory, cpu slices, etc). That is why plugs kill the comp on low buffer settings. Also another tip is if you are looking for a low latency as possible, record at a higher sample rate. I record at 96 and I can run my buffer down to 32.

[@Cosme422]

Exactly. I started with ProTools in 2002.

[@MikeCurleyMikesLegion]

This video reminds me of how much SoundFlow has changed my life. Tons of great ideas for macros in here. Thanks!

[@edwardrummer]

Great video 👏 I was bopping along to the music while focusing in on what you’re saying. 👌

[@taftaudio]

One thing I like to do slightly different is on the playlist duplicate. I name the track something like “Lead Vocal” then the first thing I do is duplicate the track. Pro Tools will automatically add a “.01” to the track name. This is when I start recording, making the .01 take 1 .02 is take 2 etc. Then at the end, when I’m ready to comp, I go back to the original playlist that doesn’t have a number and that becomes my comp track. Pretty close to what he says to do, just a few less steps

[@josephmcginnis8073]

thankyou... i dunno why you duplicate the track? just make a new playlist on each new track they become 01! then use the comp with no number genius!

[@JohnnyPbitch]

^ What he said. So much easier to comp stuff on the same track instead of copying each part that you want over then editing them again

[@LaminarSound]

Great idea with the “recording track” vs final vocal track. Even with playlists things can get crazy quickly. I usually create a playlist dedicated for final but a whole track might even be easier.

[@AndrewMasters]

Sean Hebert yeah depending on the client, it can get messy. Haha.

[@brucemaier3943]

Great tutorial and I will be paying attention. I've had 5 years experience with 10 and fifteen years working in and around Pro Tools studios. Soon will be moving up to latest version but I've not yet run out of things to learn and perfect as it is. You make things clear. Thank you - WA state

[@D0peSince85]

You’re spot on with key commands!! I learned a new one with copy to send!! Thanks a million #GEM 💎

[@AndrewMasters]

That's a good one.

[@zayisdead]

Lil tip that I don’t see anyone talking about: I figured out if you have a UAD interface, you can use the console app, turn up your vocal monitor fader to 0 so the client hears themselves in real time, mute the record track on ProTools and you don’t have to play with the buffer size.

[@timothymcartney]

This video is fantastic!

[@dannykalei]

This is great. Extremely helpful info

[@AndrewMasters]

Hey, I'm glad it helped!

[@benmcconahy7371]

Great video, makes me excited to open Pro Tools for once.

[@recordman555]

So, you like throwing your money at a system that is mediocre at best?

[@EliVanFleet]

Honestly the background music was absolute awesome. Kept me hooked till the end cause I was just jamming to it.

[@Farcutracam235]

U are sooo cool man and easy to hear, pretty enjoyable and informative!! such good vibes, hope u keep doing this for loong time! thank you!

[@flamindigo]

the last two tricks are good stuff

[@x1plus1x]

I've seen several PT videos mention R and T for zooming. Personally, I find Option + Mouse Wheel more intuitive and easier (also Shift + Mouse Wheel to scroll left and right). Option + A is the gold nugget that I found in this video.

[@CaveCeo]

Command bracket is the best

[@billB101]

On my Mac it's Control R and T?

[@johnnythomas7314]

Great Tips and a good refresh as well!

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks! Glad to hear it

[@ryanmckenna3088]

great end section, make this your signature.

[@erikjohnson1365]

Thank you.

[@ryansullivan7804]

Some great tips! Isee that you're a Peter Mc Kinnon fan. He's cool!

[@5ision]

Great information 🔥🔥🔥

[@walterleemusic]

Great vid! 🤘🏻🤠🤘🏻

[@hixrat]

Love the info and love your vibe. Smashed like. Smashed follow.

[@Ang197O]

@10:44 remember to hold down CTRL when you drag to the track/playlist so it stays locked in time

[@ChristopherTesta]

Background music is not only too loud but horrible. “Apple m”. Your new favorite shortcut

[@AaronTrimbleMusic]

Great advice! I knew the vertical fit command, but had missed the option a horizontal one. Totally forgot about it.

[@vocalpro]

What a great video! Good job man.

[@frankpaws]

numeric pad. Dot number enter. with Windows config is what you want. So do . 1 Enter and you get the options to save your track heights as well as recall a windows config. One thing to note. If you have set up markers and then setup marker memory locations you will have to renumber the previous markers to clear out the keypad numbers. There is a specific way it has to be done though. If you double click on the marker, and the marker property is selected, you can change the number. If you double click on the marker but the property is set for none, and you have any of the general selected and you double click on the marker and change the properties, the marker will disappear. In other words, changing the general properties on a marker will cause it to disappear. If you mess with it, you will see it for yourself. With the start of a new session, I allocate 1-9 as none and track visibility and track height selected. I put a marker at the top of the session and change the properties back to Marker and no general properties selected so all markers after don't carry things like track height when you click it.

[@MelodiousEtude]

Like that Cody Fry in the background lol

[@brettallen7275]

How does this video not have more views. I feel like I learned more here than I did in 3 months of school in this topic haha.

[@recordman555]

Because the truth is Avid (Protools) is a money pit. It has this"industry standard" banner about it, but the truth is, Avid just wants your money - and it never ends. What do you get in return? Chronic compatibility issues, subscription issues, hardware connectivity issues. If that's the studio you want to offer your clients, knock yourself out.

[@brandonblue5037]

Your a Godsend brother!

[@TheSilkoth]

Thank you man, this is great!

[@AndrewMasters]

Thank you! You. Are. Great.

[@LakshayKukreja11]

13:25 🤯 Damn, dude! Thanks for this!!

[@ramarak8156]

That intro was very engaging, man!

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks! It's tricky finding that right balance that's not too long.

[@skipstream2]

Windows configuration. You can save heights etc. Just choose other option when creating or updating. Also, keyboard shortcut is .1* on numeric pad for configuration 1. Obviously use different num for each configuration saved

[@omed7635]

Thank you ..

[@LJOS21]

Great Video bro, Cheers from Venezuela. Brick

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks!

[@kfrederick6378]

Great video! A ProTools routing to external gear tutorial would be helpful too!!!

[@juntin810]

the floating transport can be viewed within the edit window without that hovering over.

[@johnvcougar]

That Muzak … eek! Smears ya dulcet vocal narrative tones, my man!

[@johnvcougar]

lol, I’ve been here before. sos. 😅

[@nicholaslepp1502]

the buffer is actually the amount of space each sample holds in ram before it is dumped to the disk, i.e. 1024mb is one gigabyte. so, the smaller the buffer the faster it dumps from the ram and the larger the buffer the more time it has to not make mistakes but also meaning the longer it takes to dump from the ram the higher the latency is. it's a measure of size in megabytes not cpu allocation

[@omed7635]

Thank you for the explanation ..

[@ChiefofThangz907]

great video...i am thrilled that producers still use panning...artist mostly rappers ask not to pan lol...

[@ayyonmichaels9731]

omg thanks for the zoom keys...

[@zakaroonetwork777]

I do Have an Uncle Named Bob. Thank You.

[@manvince]

Hi. I like your channel but you put the background music too loud compared to your vocal. This becomes too distracting for me. I hope you could consider reducing the background music in the future. Cheers

[@michaelc7207]

Background music and narration mix is fine Andrew...amazing how some people view someone else's hard work for free and then criticize. some even go through the hassle of creating a KZbin account just to post a hateful response....unbelievable. Your videos are well done and very much appreciated my friend.

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks dude! Appreciate it.

[@johnvcougar]

Aw, man, we're just commenting, not flaming. It's great content. Everyone said so, just trying to help make it even better.

[@melodyman9162]

Great Vid man. I was also wondering if there I can move multiple tracks at the same time without gouping or creating a VCA?

[@seangrim3293]

good stuff man

[@AndrewMasters]

Thanks!

[@zakaroonetwork777]

4:50 You Have to Save the Session First then Save the template setting and then it will carry over.

[@vsatya4364]

Fabulous Bro!👍✊🙏

[@lambo1306]

Thanks for the tips. I'm mainly doing audiobook narration so much of the video didn't apply to my field, but the quick commands will come in very handy. One suggestion...it's a minor issue but your background music was kind of distracting. Thanks again!🤓👍

[@zackingraham5864]

Killer!!

[@teddym2808]

Don't forget you need to have focus enabled to use R & T.. otherwise it's command [ or command ].

[@gotyaphotocom]

I was going to say ... my " R " & My " T " DOESN'T WORK ??? What ??? PLEASE HELP ???

[@gotyaphotocom]

I " GOOGLED IT " !!! Yay !!! Click the little tiny AZ button at the top right side of the edit window ... WALA !!! Yay Me !!! Yay YOU Teddy

[@theshenco.]

What's the best way to make use of the background vocals L, C, and R tracks?

[@zakaroonetwork777]

17:07 Photoshop - After FX insert a Sweetwater Victory flag in your hand that you are waving around.

[@Cosme422]

T & R for about 20 years now. I use them 35k trillion times a session. lol

[@AlanProdMusic]

Good tips man, thank you. Just don’t put that music on the background, it’s annoying. Sounds like a tv commercial haha good video

[@zonarecordingstudio]

Lately ,if I get a notification on my Mac it can halt protools, and I get a error message?

[@banditqueenpress]

You are great ! I rather be without background music.

[@himynameissascha]

Hey man! I really dig your space. What’s the of your room walls?

[@AndrewMasters]

Sascha Michi are you asking about the wall color of the room in this video? If so I have no idea haha. This was an apartment and they painted.

[@himynameissascha]

Andrew Masters Yeah like the wall color. Is it more of a sand / stone tone or grey?

[@AndrewMasters]

Sascha Michi I think it’s more of a grey. The white balance on my camera was set to auto so it always looked a little different depending on the lamps I was using in the background.

[@karlwright2593]

Thanks for your information, but your background music is too loud and distracting. Thanks again for the info.

[@nicholaslepp1502]

fun fact, even if you know a recommended buffer size for your interface, play with it, i have 2 laptops one i7 and one i5 and the i7 is much more powerful and twice the cores but for 24bit 192k the i7 needs an 8gb buffer while the i5 only needs 2gb or 2048mb, same ssd, same ram sticks, same software, same interface...

[@norfsyq9660]

Idk if any one knows but if you hold alt while using the scroll wheel it zooms in as well.

[@JMLRecording]

great video brother but maybe drop that distracting music a bit? Thx tho

[@aeiplanner]

Couldn't get through the video Thx to background music.

[@alejandrorivera3068]

The video is great and this uplifiting music made me forget that I still have to do over 40 hours editing.

[@lousekoya1803]

Love this video but at 7.18 minutes , the shopping mall music got to me , very ennoying after a while when a teacher is teaching complex content.

[@Rambonbon]

will it fit 33s with no cutting

[@andrecardu]

Great tips! but terrible music in the background!

[@giabgr]

With that stacking tracks method your clips aren't going to be labeled helpfully. Could get confusing visually.

[@Cosme422]

It’s hard to watch. I wish KZbin had a way of muting the music. Dialogue should never have BG music.

[@austinnichols5191]

wow us cubase/nuendo people are literally laughing historically.. man i watched this video hoping protools has made improvements since its release but nope not really..

[@AndrewMasters]

Yeah that's kind of their thing, not improving. haha.

[@jjjuhg]

You could play a good character in a Hollywood movie, but also a killer. Easy. Your face transforms very fast. I would not want to make you angry. Believe me, i can read people well.

[@AndrewMasters]

Honey? Is that you?

[@jjjuhg]

@@AndrewMasters ha ha ! Nice. Yes, but you are also handsone and less people try to mess with you, because of your face. Cheers from England, Manchester

[@justjohnmusicchannel8327]

Great video, very informative but PLEASSE get rid of the background music. It's very distracting and not neccessary. THanks!

[@markclason2272]

Dude, can you remix this video for ... um, obvious ...

[@nicholaslepp1502]

are you also the hand puppet??

[@_d_h_]

ughh

[@daveparker007]

The background is annoying and makes it difficult to understand you.

[@gotyaphotocom]

I cannot get " R " and " T " to work .... I duunnoo ??? What am I doing wrong ???

[@shaelana]

Kimberly Phipps you probably have short keys turned off. If you look to the right of the session window just above the scroll bar, there’s an icon with “az” on it. Click it so it’s yellow

[@shaelana]

There’s also different shortkeys for the clip window and for the group window, you’ll see the same icon on the upper right side of those windows too. Only 1 can be enabled. I find the session window one is most useful.

[@chanonmat5563]

good but why this poor music continually behind? super annoying

[@lemonlazer6397]

I would have liked to see the screen mroe and less of you. I want to see what your'e doing and see the screen and check things out. I don't need to see your face so much.. SOmetimes you only give a quick shot of the screen and Im wondering what you jsut did. Very furstrating!

[@Chael_J]

Hahaha Vocal Town huh?

[@andrewmesh]

Why the hell did I watch this.. I don't even use Pro Tools wth

[@thesoundresidence]

Please get rid of that background music... it's just annoying

[@AndrewMasters]

For real, it is WAY too loud.

[@EppingForest16]

Andrew Masters it is ok! But you can turn it down a bit!

[@prisonpapers765]

Please stop that high energy music contrasting you low voice. It's very DISTRACTING BOOM!

[@AndrewMasters]

Don't watch it?

[@AaronTrimbleMusic]

😂😂😂

[@johnnelson2462]

Excuse me I thought this was gonna be a Pro Tool Video not a Pro Tool Video. Where is your manager

[@johnnelson2462]

I was here for bolts not beats

[@johnnelson2462]

this is like Hammer Time all over again

[@andywickett22]

Too fast to follow the moves

[@fernandodiezCA]

Some good stuff but switching back to you face all the time gets very annoying, just saying...

[@SverrekJohansen]

And a fine ting would have been if we actually could see the Pro Tools session and not your face all the time.

[@AndrewMasters]

Yeah This video is pretty terrible, I think it was one of the first times I did a video with a screen recording.

[@aneyeforsound]

please stop the annoying music

[@teddym2808]

Ok you have no idea what you are talking about...You do a whole section on buffer size and are clueless to how modern PT works. Just leave the buffer to whatever you feel comfortable in for input monitoring and VI playing. The lowest your computer can cope with. *The buffer you choose in playback preferences is ONLY active when a track or tracks are record ARMED*. You never, ever need to change it, EVER. Because pro tools puts ALL tracks that are NOT record armed on 1024 playback buffer *anyway*. It's called a hybrid buffer.. Do not do what this guy does and drive yourself crazy changing the buffer back and forth as it will make no difference whatsoever for mixing as PT is always on a buffer of 1024 samples for mixing. I have tested this myself.. 32 or 1024 makes no difference, only when tracks are armed for recording.. and you need a low buffer for that anyway. If your cpu is full and you can't record more tracks in realtime, that's what commit or freeze is for.

[@truth135]

I dont want to see your face I want to see what you're doing in pro tools

[@Austin4098]

Please don’t “Boom!” So adolescent….!

[@Morpheus_yt]

Stop showing your face every 2 sec

[@AndrewMasters]

Watch a different channel