Lesson 10: Plugins & Processing - Posted on 2014-03-12 by Brian Mulvany

This week's lesson has been a blast to get into, being that I'm a huge plugin nerd. The information i have received about the stock Pro Tools plugins will come in particularly handy, being that with Pro Tools 11, the formats of most of my purchased plugins are no longer supported. This means that those stock plugins will be seeing much use. However, from what I already know, they sound great and should do the trick for 90% of my mixing needs anyhow. Also, in a sense, I feel that having the limitations of stock plugins can actually be liberating. It frees the user from sifting through a hoard of software - thus speeding up workflow, it limits the time a person spends on deciding WHICH eq/compressor/effect to use, and focuses their attention to actually PERFORMING the action, that main priority of action being balancing. Another area of interest is definitely the sinewave project, something I likely would never have taken into consideration. Actually, when the time arrived where i could comprehend sound, the thought had crossed my mind - "what combination of frequencies and harmonics would a person need to reproduce a specific sound?" However, that was the extent of my thought with regard to sinewave frequencies. The thought was not: "what can i do to a single sinewave to produce a song?". This project was both extremely enjoyable and educational.