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64 Chapter 5 Mixing Stereo and Surround Projects
Steps for Mixing a Project
This section takes you through a generic mixing process for a film project made of
voiceover, dialogue, effects, and music tracks. This mini-tutorial is intended to give you
a general sense of the goals and outcome of mixing a film audio project: to adjust the
individual audio tracks and create a balanced master mix.
Step 1: Mix the voice tracks
Adjust the volume and balance of the voiceover and dialogue tracks.
Step 2: Mix the effects and music tracks
Adjust the volume of the effects and music tracks.
Step 3: Adjust the overall mix
Make overall adjustments to the project.
Step 4: Correct clipping on the Master bus or for exported items
Verify that none of the audio exceeds the maximum volume.
Step 5: Listen one more time
Listen one more time, just in case.
Mixing the Voice Tracks
In this step, you check the volume and balance of the voice tracks.
In the Cafe example, there are two groups of voice tracks: the primary voice (VO Debra
and VO Jacob) and the secondary voice (Dialog 1 and Dialog 2).
To mix the first set of voice tracks:
1 Solo each main voice track by clicking its Solo button.
Click the Solo button to
solo one or more tracks.