In a professional studio when finishing a recording, it is important to organise your session before handing it over to your mix engineer. This allows the mix engineer to have a clear start to understand your recording.
In this session I was in charge of pro tools. We started off grouping all the tracks, we grouped the drum tracks together, the guitar tracks and the bass tracks. With each recording there was a limited amount of time so labelling tracks wasn’t a priority so we labelled each track in more detail so when it came to mixing we new what microphone was used and the position of it. We sorted some of the levels out on the tracks, only obvious ones that were clearly to loud or to quiet. After that we panned the tracks to get a stable mix. After that we played the song through mono on the speakers which allowed us to identify which tracks were loud or too quiet. After we finished that we listened back to the track without pro tools showing on the screen, this gave as a clear image from we were hearing so we weren’t tempted to change anything.
This session is incredibly useful as it tidies the whole mix up and gives you a great starting point to mix the track. Without this we would have to waste time labelling tracks and grouping them which could be spent on mixing.