Setting the Equalizer in Pro Tools

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Okay, let's talk about inserts. What is an insert? An insert gives me the ability to put a plug-in on any particular track. So if you go over to dialog one, let's, the kinds of things I like to put on my dialog tracks with equalizers. I don't get too fancy, I like to do things in specific places. So the dialog tracks and all the effects tracks will be added equalizer. They don't get reverbs, they don't get anything else. They don't get any, any kind of extra dynamics, compressions, and so forth unless they really specifically need that. We'll put compressors later in, we'll put compressors in our dialog chain a little later on. But let's take a look at what our basic set up would be. So, we'll go over to our first track here, dialog one. And we'll pick the best equalizer that they have, a seven band e.q., very powerful equalizer. Really, they've done a great job with this equalizer. I used to use waves plug-ins, well I still use waves but these sound just as good as they hold up to the waves plug-ins, I should say. Now I have the ability with this plug-in, to control my bass and treble. It gives you a little graphic display here. There's a little rubber banding tool, I can make bass higher or lower and the treble higher or lower and so forth. I also have the ability to automate these so, just before I was doing touch with the faders, I can do the same thing with this automation. I can control things, okay. Now once I get the equalizer that I like, what I like to do is I make sure that everything is set to a nominal position, or every thing is set to, the way the equalizer comes in basically which is called flat, and that's the way that it comes in when you first open it. I was just playing around with it. Now if I want to put the same equalizer on each track, what I need to do is I hold the option key, click on it, and drag it down. And that's a real fast way of getting equalizers on all your tracks. Now I want to go down to my stereo track here, I'm going to do a multi-track dynamic, I'm sorry, multi-track equalizer. And I'm going to go pick the same one seven band e.q., there it is. It's coming up as a flat e.q., that's just what I want. And now I'm going to move this e.q. down to the track below so instead of going and searching for it, all I have to do is hold the option key, drag it down. A quick way of getting all your tracks set up with equalizers, very, very fast. So let's go hold the option key, right there.

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