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Hey guys welcome back to another mixlessons.com video quick tip. Im Dezz Asante and I’ve
got a real short one for you today, a real quick one. Something that’s another time
saver in the sort of theme of our speeding up your work flow, I’ve done a few quick
tips about that. And this one is, save your plug in presets. If you dialed in a tone or
an effect or a sound that you find really works on a certain type of track, save these
things as presets. Its that easy to do and it takes up no hard drives space virtually
whatsoever and theres really no excuse not too. But it will allow you in the future to
get right back in the spot that you left off and then you can tweak from there as the individual
circumstances fits. So real simply, I’ve got a lead vocal up here from a tone by Katrina
James and let me just play a couple bars here so you get a vibe for what I’m working with.
Okay? So I’ve got a Pultec style eq on that vocal and that I’m just using for the sake
of example here, okay? And lets say that I really dialed that in just nice and on this
type of female vocal that sits in that kind of freak range and the frequency spectrum
that this plugin, that this eq setting tends to be very, very ideal. So all I wanna do
is go up in here and save this as a preset. I can go in here and give it a name. I can
even, what I recommend that you do is name it specifically like per project so that later
on, a year later when you say, “man what was that eq I used on katrina’s voice back
in the day”, you can go to your presets and see. Well here lets see. Katrina james
vocal and save that as a preset. And anytime that I want to this is the jjp by the way,
from wave, the Jack Joseph Puig collection. If you don’t know jack joseph preeg is then
you got a little bit more “youtubing” to do before the day is out. But he’s got
a beautiful signature series collection of plugins from wave that I highly recommend,
if the budget allows, get them because they are really really good. So now anytime, lets
say for example, I go to another track here, randomly. And I go under eq’s and I look
for the Puigtec, where is it, oh shout! Lets find out where that plugin was. That was Puigtec.
Okay? So lets go over to this other track right here and look for the Puigtec. There
it is! And if all is well, I should be able to go in here and load my Katrina james vocal
preset. And there it is! Okay? So I’ve loaded the preset. These controls have snapped into
place and now I can start off from where I left off in the previous mix and I can tweak
to taste. So hopefully you can find that useful as it’s a real simple trick. Maybe you’re
already doing it but it’s the little things that add up to a really quick work flow and
a really good experience. The whole goal is to get to the fun part quicker and to minimize
the laborious aspect of the mix.
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