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Considerations for bouncing audio

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Considerations for bouncing audio

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- [Instructor] Mixing down is the process of recording the output of your session to a stereo file. This process is also commonly called bouncing your session, and it's often the last phase of production. Two common methods of creating a stereo mixdown are one, record your mix to a stereo audio track within your session, sometimes called bounce to tracks, and two, render an external file of your stereo mix, also known as bounce to disk. Regardless of which technique you use, a basic principle applies. What you hear is what you get. So that literally means that the mix you hear during playback, is exactly what will be included in the bounced file. Let me give you some examples of things to watch for and believe me, I've heard bounces that exhibit all of these flaws. First, muted tracks. If you have a track in your session muted, such as the lead vocal track, then the bounce is going to sound incomplete. (rhythmic music) So we don't want that. So another potential problem is a soloed…

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