Using the Sound Busses in Pro Tools

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I have a basic Pro Tool session here with dialog music and effects. In order for me to have better control over those gained individually what I can do is I can put all my dialog tracks together on one bus and all my music tracks together on another bus and my effects on another. That way I can do a sound mix. I can get all my levels that I want and then I can control the entire group of dialog tracks with one fader. It also gives me the ability to do a final sound mix with everything combined but separated. So, let?s take a look at how we would do that. Right now Pro Tools sends the audio out to the analog output which is just the output of the box. But, I have the ability to route the audio internally. So, lets go ahead and make some auxiliary buses. We are going to go over to our track window and we are going to make tracks. I want to make three tracks right now. There going to be stereo and not going to be audio tracks this time there going to be auxiliary inputs. Right now I have one, two, and three tracks of auxiliary inputs. Now, I want to make the input of my dialog track bus one, and two. Input of my second track bus three, and four and the second input five and six. I'm going to rename these tracks real quickly. Auxiliary one is going to be my dialog aux. Then my next track is going to be my music aux. Then my next track is going to be my effects aux. So, now I have these three tracks going to one and two. All of them going to the right output but, I still need to get the audio from the individual tracks to theses auxiliary buses. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to my dialog track I'm going to select bus one and two and my other dialog track select bus one and two. Now my audio is going to be playing from dialog through the auxiliary bus. So now you can actually see the audio coming from the dialog track and not going out directly to the analog but, it's going through a bus. Now, I can control both of these tracks with just one master fader. I would do the same thing with the following tracks. Music tracks would go to bus three and four. Then my effects tracks would go to bus five and six. Now, every single track that I made effects one, two. If I go up to 32 tracks I all have them routed to bus five and six. Any combination of sound effects can be control by one fader. That's a great advantage.

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