How to Use the Pro Tools Master Fader | The RIGHT Way!

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When mixing or recording in a DAW, using the master fader correctly can be crucial to reaching your desired outcomes. This tutorial will explain the function and demonstrate multiple ways the Master Fader can be used in your recording or mixing session. This tutorial is in Pro Tools but the techniques can be used any any DAW including Logic Pro X, Studio One, Fl Studio, and more!
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You can also create another Aux track that all your tracks and busses are routed to and then feed that into the SubMaster (or MixBus as I label it). This allows you to create volume automation that will hit your compressor on the SubMaster. So during choruses for example, you can automate the aux track level going into the SubMaster to hit the compressor a little harder to get some more aggression.

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It's normal to use master to adjust the level. Because Protools use 32 bit floating point mixer since 2016. You can experiment with this. Generate 0 dbFS signal on track, set channel fader to +10 and master fader to -10. And it wiil be OK on the output. You should only care to prevent overload on master, because it will provide distortion in DAC.

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I use it as a trim master fader to check the internal level of the mix engine.

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thank you so much! i kept running into the issue of a particular track not being quite the volume that i want it to be but when i get it where i want it, it would peak everything else. putting a submaster fader into a submaster is genius!

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Big thanks about the brilliant lesson, really important understand post fader inserts about the master.

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Nice bro, cause my PT master fader has been clipping red, this opens up more options to deal with that issue

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Using the submix, you also can print in real time by recording to the print track, and you use reference tracks that aren’t routed through the submix.

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Saying that you should never touch the fader on the mixbuss master is a bit short-sighted. It is quite classic to drive the 2buss inserts 0.5-1dB when going into choruses etc. It might not change the level, but it will make the compressor (if any) react a bit more, giving you the feeling of a more powerful chorus. And I really mean like 1dB at the most :D

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Love all your vid brother. Thank you so much for all you do. I was wondering if there was a way to lock a floating fader on you screen. Meaning let's say I wanted the master fader to always be on the screen without ever changing the fader as I choose another floating fader without hitting shift to bring up another floating fader?

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