In light of the recent launch of REthink Pro Tools, I wanted to share a sample video from the tutorial series. In video 6 I go over putting the finishing touches on your mix and in one section I cover your options for bouncing your tracks down to a stereo audio file, ready for distribution.
Of course you can just simply use the built in Bounce To Disk option, but there are some great benefits to using the sometimes little known record to disk option. This video should shed some light on the issue. Enjoy!
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Hey Graham,
Quick question: Doesn’t routing all the pre-master fader tracks to bus 31-32 negate the need to route the master bus to the new track, since the master no longer has those inputs? Wouldn’t this leave out any mastering plugins you have on the master fader? And (finally
), why wouldn’t you just route the output of the fader to that specific bus, then use that bus as the input for that new track, in effect bypassing the need to reroute all of the tracks of the entire session?
Thanks, and dig the site!
Great questions Kevin! Routing the master bus to the new track in essence makes all tracks routed to bus 31-32 run THROUGH the master fader. It’s just the way master faders work in pro tools. They are slightly different than just an aux track.
You’re right in that you don’t need to run all your tracks through the master in order to get it to the new bounce track, BUT if you want the effects on the master fader (which you usually do when you’re doing a mix) then you’ll keep the master fader just route it to the final bounce track.