68 Chapter 5 Mixing Stereo and Surround Projects
To make changes to the overall mix:
1 Press Shift-Return to play your project. Listen to it. Does it need any final adjustments?
For this example, a compressor will be added to the Cafe project’s submix track to even
out the final mix.
2 Select the submix track in the Mixer. When you do, the submix track in the Timeline is
automatically selected.
3 To add a compressor to the submix track, select the Effects tab, select Dynamics and
Compressor, and click the Add (+) button.
Select the submix
track. In this example,
the Mixer tab is a
floating window and
has been resized.
When you select the
submix track in the Mixer,
the submix track in the
Timeline is also selected.
Click the Add (+) button.
Select Dynamics and
Compressor in the
Effects tab.