Pro Tools Tips & Tricks-Vol 1
Editing
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Tutorial 1
Beat Detective Collection Mode
6:31Learn to use the Beat Detective Collection Mode on Multi Tracked Drums to quickly and easily tighten them up and make the performance groove.
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Tutorial 2
Kick Drum Replacement
6:51See how to easily replace and or enhance the Kick Drum track in your songs and sessions.
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Tutorial 3
Snare Drum Replacement
8:59Learn how to replace and or enhance the Snare Drum track in your songs and sessions with other samples.
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Tutorial 4
Tom Replacement
5:44Learn how to realistically replace and or enhance the Toms in your songs and sessions.
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Tutorial 5
Conforming a Click to a Drummer
4:04Learn how to make a click track follow a drummer’s performance and timing.
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Tutorial 6
Stuttering Guitars
5:19See how to create a cool Stuttering effect for guitars, keyboards, drums or any other instrument.
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Tutorial 7
Beat Detective with No Click
6:12Learn how to easily quantize a drummer or track that wasn’t originally recorded to a Click Track and make it groove.
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Tutorial 8
Using Beat Detective on Bass
9:36Using Beat Detective on bass instruments can be hard as their attacks are usually to weak to get good triggers… Kenny shows you the fix.
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Tutorial 9
Scratching in Pro Tools
4:32See how to recreate the classic DJ Scratching Effect on any vocal, drum, guitar, or other track in Pro Tools.
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Tutorial 10
Quantizing & Conform Loops
5:39Discover how to use Beat Detective to Quantize any loop to any tempo you choose and make it groove.
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Tutorial 11
Flexible Drum Loop Time
4:39Learn to make a standard drum loop fit any tempo and even adjust for tempo changes in your song.
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Tutorial 12
Making Grooves with Rex Files
6:45Learn to simply and quickly assemble REX Files into cool grooves and outline your song.
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Tutorial 13
Splitting Drum Loops
4:39See how to break up a drum loop and adjust its levels and add effects to its individual elements.
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Tutorial 14
Replacing Drum Loop Sounds
5:44Learn the steps to easily replace the elements in a drum loop such as its kicks and snares with better samples.
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Tutorial 15
Recording Background Vocals
4:18Discover the trick to easily record and manage background vocals in your songs by utilizing smart tracking techniques.
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Tutorial 16
Comping Vocals
6:13Learn the art of recording multiple takes of vocals and turning them all into the one Perfect Take.
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Tutorial 17
Relative Grid Mode
6:55Learn helpful ways to use Pro Tool’s Relative Grid Mode when editing large sections of songs and more.
Mixing
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Tutorial 18
Using Mono Delays
5:51Learn to creatively use Mono Delays in your productions. Discover how to make them change over time and introduce a filter type effect.
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Tutorial 19
Ping Pong Delay
3:33Learn to create an authentic Ping Pong Delay in your sessions. See how a real engineer reproduces the analog outboard gear effect in Pro Tools.
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Tutorial 20
Cymbal Compression
3:57Learn the tricks to make sizzling cymbals in your songs and sessions.
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Tutorial 21
Parallel Compression
4:09See how to create the Punch that’s heard on today’s recordings and productions in your songs and sessions.
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Tutorial 22
Kick Tone Enhancement
4:24Learn to create a fat, huge sounding bass drum in your songs and sessions by using the Pro Tools Signal Generator plug-in.
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Tutorial 23
Auto-Tune Graphic Mode
5:41Auto-Tunes advanced Graphic Mode is explained and demystified by showing it being used on an actual out of tune vocal track.
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Tutorial 24
Automating Eq & Pan
6:44See the steps on how to quickly automate EQ and Panning to create cool filter effects and sonic movement in your mixes.
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Tutorial 25
Wah-Wah Effect
2:51You will throw away your Wah-Wah pedals after seeing how you can easily create the best sounding and most responsive Wah-Wah effect in Pro Tools.
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Tutorial 26
De-Essing Vocals
4:29Learn a great way to reduce sibilance in your vocal tracks with laser sharp precision.
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Tutorial 27
Sidechain Gating
4:56Learn this tried and true studio technique to create dynamic effects and track enhancements.
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Tutorial 28
Sidechain Compression
3:06Discover how to create a more effective natural sounding compressor with this insightful studio trick.
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Tutorial 29
Using Extra Bank of Sends
4:56Learn some cool techniques for utilizing the extra bank of sends included with version 7.x of Pro Tools.
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Tutorial 30
Sidechain Gating Drums
7:39See how to make a highly accurate Drum Gate effect without the typical drum misfires.
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Tutorial 31
Sidechain Gating Triggered
8:46Know the advanced way to better trigger a Gate in your Pro Tools sessions.
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Tutorial 32
Trim Mode Trick
2:07See how to use Trim Automation to quickly and easily adjust settings such as volume.
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Tutorial 33
Six Ways to use Trim Mode
10:19Learn six slick, time saving ways to adjust the overall gain of the tracks in your songs and sessions.
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Tutorial 34
Relative Trim Mode
7:41Learn some cool techniques for Relative Trim Mode.
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Tutorial 35
Reverse Effects
10:06See how to recreate the classic backwards reverb effect easily in Pro Tools and align it perfectly with your tracks.
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Tutorial 36
Using Indigo as a Vocoder
3:49Learn to get the best results from the Indigo TDM Synth plug-in when used as a Vocoder. These tips can be applied to LE and M-Powered systems too!
Utility
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Tutorial 37
Making a Click Track
3:23Discover how to make polyrhythmic - zero latency click track that will even follow the tempo changes in your songs and sessions.
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Tutorial 38
Talent Dimming
2:57This handy studio utility trick shows you how to automatically control your talent’s level in between takes.
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Tutorial 39
Advanced Markers
20:18The definitive tutorial for learning how to creatively use Markers in Pro Tools. This info will greatly enhance your track management, session navigation, recording sessions and more.
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Tutorial 40
Talkback Ducking
3:51Learn this cool studio utility trick to automatically lower and raise your talkback mic level when the music starts and stops.
Kenny Gioia is a Multi-Platinum producer, engineer, and mixer who has worked with Mandy Moore, Lee Ann Womack, LFO, Marcy Playground, Hall & Oates and many other top name acts. Totaling almost 4 hours of run time, these 40 highly insightful Pro Tools "Tips and Tricks" videos cover indispensable Mixing, Production and Utilities topics.
This collection is shown in Pro Tools 7 and is fully compatible with versions 8 and 9. It reveals techniques used by Kenny to get great sounding tracks, create tight loops and rhythm parts, and shows you cool effects and utility tricks to get the most out of your Pro Tools sessions... This is a must have for every Pro Tools user!
Reviews
Submitted 2 weeks ago
These vids are awesome!
Kenny is the best at training. He has such a great attitude and makes everything so easy to understand. There is just something special about someone showing you what to do as they explain and at the same time communicating in a very easy to understand way.
I am a: Hobbyist, Musician, Pro Tools
Submitted 8 months ago
Makes me want to buy autotune
As always Kenny sounds calm, competent and friendly - another superb tutorial from the mixermeister
I am a: Semi-Pro, Musician, Producer, Audio Engineer, Sound Designer, Mastering Facility, Sound for Film/TV, Pro Tools
Submitted 1 year ago
Extremely Helpful
glad i watched this videos! every pro tools user should view them too
1. When did you start dabbling in music?
I've played an instrument since I was 10. Drums and Trumpet. I'm 40 now. I can play a little bit of any instrument. Master of none. Rock bands most of my life.
2. What training have you had?
I was taught trumpet classically from grade school up until I graduated high school. I went to Five Towns College for engineering and learned that you can't just learn this stuff from school. I did graduate though.
3. When did you get into recording?
I've been recording since I was 15. Two cassette players wired to a Radio Shack mixer. Eventually I got an 8 track reel to reel by Fostex. I've used just about every DAW and I started using them before they even recorded audio. Vision and Performer were just MIDI sequencers at the time. Before they became Studio Vision and Digital Performer. I got studio jobs because I knew computer MIDI and most studios didn't. I eventually moved up to Sound Tools which was two track. Then Pro Tools made a Audio Media III card which let you have 4 inputs. Gradually I moved up from there with Pro Tools D24, Pro Tools Mix to HD.
4. People you have worked with/for?
Marcy Playground
Mandy Moore
LFO
Willa Ford
Lee Ann Womack
Paulina Rubio
Hall & Oates
Bayside
Head Automatica
Cute is What We Aim For
FTSK
and many more...
5. Why are you so good at training people?
Hmmm. My Mom always said "Self Praise Stinks". I think it's because I have no ability to talk like a professional announcer, or plan out my teachings. So I teach as if you were sitting next to me. Pretty much off the cuff. I think that engages people more. We're so used to hearing everything done so properly and planned out with unnecessary explanations and proper wording that the brain will actually ignore most of it. Your brain tunes it out like you're back at your desk at school. But if the teacher grabbed you aside and just explained it to you, I believe you'd get more out of it. That is what I try to do.
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The Delay effect is one of the oldest effects to be used on recordings, and there are many different types and ways to apply it. Multi-Platinum mixer / producer extraordinaire Kenny Gioia returns with a must have series for anyone recording, mixing, engineering or producing music. See how delay can be used to make tracks bigger, wider and just cooler! Learn the important fundamentals and advanced techniques of delay, and you'll find yourself using delay smarter and more creatively.
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