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Table Of Contents
- Soundtrack Pro 2 Getting Started
- Contents
- Welcome to SoundtrackPro
- Starting Your Project andAssembling Media
- Assembling Your MultitrackProject
- Working with Multitrack Projects
- Playing and Saving a Multitrack Project
- Creating a SoundtrackPro Multitrack Project fromaFinalCutPro Sequence
- Adding Clips to the Timeline
- Editing Clips in the Timeline
- Adding Markers to the Timeline
- Creating a Fade in an Audio Clip
- Adding a Crossfade Between Two Clips
- Adding Tracks, Busses, and Submixes to a Multitrack Project
- Working with Stereo and Surround Track Panners
- Routing Your Multitrack Project
- Adding Effects to Your Multitrack Project
- Automating Track, Bus, Submix, and Master Bus Parameters with Envelope Points
- Working with Individual AudioFiles
- Solving Audio Problems
- Mixing Stereo andSurroundProjects
- Exporting Your Multitrack Project
- What’s Next?
- An Introduction to the SoundtrackPro Interface
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5 Mixing Stereo
and Surround Projects
Mixing involves balancing the items in a project to create a full, complete sound. This
chapter takes you through a simple mixing process to teach you the basic principles
of mixing.
In this chapter, you’ll learn about:
 Fundamentals of Mixing (p. 61)
 Working in the Soundtrack Pro Mixer (p. 62)
 Steps for Mixing a Project (p. 64)
Fundamentals of Mixing
You follow the same basic steps to mix both stereo and surround sound projects:
 Balancing tracks’ relative volume levels
 Panning tracks to create a balanced stereo or surround spread
 Adding EQ, compression, and other final processing effects
 Setting the project’s final volume and eliminating clipping
You can perform these steps in any order, moving between steps as appropriate for
your specific project. However, in most situations it makes sense to first finish mixing
your project’s tracks and then adjust the entire project’s levels.
After working through the mixing process described in this chapter, you’ll have created
your final mix.