Producing with Pro Tools

View a video of course author Dave Franz discussing Producing with Pro Tools.

Prepare yourself to be a great producer using Pro Tools software in your home studio. This course teaches Berklee's renowned production techniques and will provide you the vital skills you need to know. This course introduces you to recording in Pro Tools and provides technical training in sound recording, from setup to mix-down. Plus, you'll get more detailed discussions and animations of technical terms, and a chance to talk gear, studio configurations, and philosophies of production, even speaker placement, monitor mixes, and acoustics for your studio. You'll become a better, more professional producer, when working on your own music and the music of others.

Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:

• Set up and run recording sessions in your home studio
• Utilize basic Pro Tools recording techniques, such as sends, returns, and busses for recording through an effect
• Place microphones properly to capture superior sounds
• Record with reverb, delay, compression/expansion, and equalizer plug-ins
• Use all editing tools and modes in Pro Tools
• Use fades and crossfades
• Work with tracks, regions, and selections
• Edit between playlists
• Prepare your edited audio tracks for mixdown
• Set up MIDI in your studio and connect all hardware and software
• Create and edit real-sounding MIDI parts and tracks
• Input orchestral instruments, samples, sound effects, and additional percussion

• Yes, I'm ready to enroll
• I'm interested and have a few questions