Very informative video. I'm watching, and learning, from the engineers at the studio I work in. A lot of times they're in the middle of a session, and they're moving like greased lightening. Obviously I would not dare interrupt to ask questions, but I take mental notes, as well as jotting things down. Just last week, the lead engineer told the artist he was going to "print that." He moved so fast, I missed what he did. But now I got it.

Hey Jordan, hope you and your family are staying safe and well. Here it is 8 years later and I’m just now stumbled upon this tutorial and I’m so elated I did. Your video is the most detailed and clear on printing and bouncing. I must add it’s the easiest way I’ve seen. I say that to say this keep up the good job .I’m not sure if your channel still exists but if so I’ll subscribe. Thanks much

...a very clear and concise presentation of a very useful technique.

Since the output on the Master Fader was set to mixbus, wouldn't that send the signal from the tracks through the mix bus fader without having to change ALL the track outputs to mixbus?

My engineer had this on a template and I figured out the side chains etc, but was wondering what a print was.

Super helpful time-saver Jordan. Thank you!

I am a beginner and I was taught to create a mix bus and add stereo widening. So I already have a mix bus AUX set up in most of my songs with stereo widening. However I was using the bounce to disk and becoming frustrated because I would listen to songs on my iPhone and they sound completely different. I mean panning not always correct, EQ completely different, and worst of all sounding brilliant on pro tools and the levels are completely different after bouncing. Hence the reason I am here. I have been tearing my hair out for a long time over this issue . And tie myself in knots having to go back and start again countless times. I struggle to follow teaching videos because they are aimed at people who are already pretty knowledgeable. I understand what you are saying, but it's still a bit complicated for me. I am really struggling.

Thank you so much!!!

I get what he did, but I'd just rather make sure everything is properly mixed the way it should be, and then just bounce it... Seems like if everything is how you want it in the mix, bouncing would just be easier... IJS THOUGH... Sometimes all that other stuff is just more technicalities for nothing...

if I print to another computer running another daw and since it shall be a D to A and then A to D conversion, could I get some analogish warmth.. ? kind of off topic.. just curious..

This is incomplete because this only applies to print tracks for sharing not for finalizing and distribution. You didn't mention anything about the dithering levels. PT will actually downgrade the quality of the audio as you show.

Great video. But I just don't understand why you created the Aux Track. Is it really necessary?

Nice video...just got one (my biggest) problem: I use Pro Tools and my mix sounds exactly the way that I want. After bouncing to a stereo track and play it on windows media player it sounds different, kind of lifeless or dull. The reverb and the clarity isn't that present and crisp as in the PT Session...and all I did was just bouncing with the same sample rate. PLEASE GIVE ME THE ADVICE THAT I NEED

Thank you time saver you rock God bless

Why I can have a diferent sound in print vs. bounce? In my case in bounce the bass and kick sounds kind of louder and they don't have any diferent plugins than others or something like that. ANY IDEAS?

I love that track! That's cool you mixed it :D

Also, wouldn't you need to add crossfade to the punched section of the printed track? Surely it'd click or pop without doing so.

THANKS FOR TUTORIAL !!!!!!!

Punching in a final mix can be tricky if you have long reverb or delays

can i choose bounce this recorded print track, not export? Does it will be in better quality or something? Just select this track from the left panel with tracks and choose “bounce it..”

Thnx for vid ,my mac doesn't have e jam so I've been bussing ,printing stems BUT my aux FX busses AREN'T PRINTING? HOW DO U PRINT FX ? Mastering plugin usually on master fader and verb,delay etc?

I can't get the audio to play out of the print track, from the master bus

So, Is there any quality difference?

What about dithering when you export a 16-bit file from a 24-bit file... as you're doing when you print then export in a 24-bit session?

I notice you did not use any plug-in.can you add plug-insbefore or after.

Thank you this was really helpful

What do you do if you have some tracks running through outboerd? Do they record at the same time or do you have to print them individually first to their respective tracks?? I'm a pro tools noob so still figuring it all out

That's awesome Jordan ! Thank you.

@jordan valeriote can you answer a quick question?

when I try to route my master fader to a bus....it doesn't give me a huge list of numbered buses....only a handful of buses named "Spring Verb, SpaceEcho, etc." why is that ?

what is meant by slip the track?

WITH QUICK BOUNCE THIS IS NOW OBSOLETE FOR THE MOST PART CORRECT? SORRY FOR CAPS

so do i print as a wav or mp3?? or does it matter

Pro Tools (bounce to disk) gives me the track bounces to mp3 .wav that plays silent on any media. So I get a 18 Mb track of silence mp3, or 108 mb .wav that is silent in itunes - media player- real time, vlc, usb thumb drvs, on different computers and iphone =The file takes up Kb to mb in space according to info of the file index of the mp3 or wav file bounced by PTools. MEDIA PLAYS NO AUDIO FROM PT BOUNCE TO DISK FILES .wav or mp3. The files are not bounced as .ptx files either but nothing reads Pt bounced mp3 .wav. files. Will exporting the PRINTED FILE read in other media? unlike PT's bounced 50/100 mb .wav mp3 silent bounce glitches.

thank you.

how did you select all the tracks at once before putting it through your mixbus?

Hi Jordan, great tutorial. Just one thing though. For some reason though, when I select all the tracks to go to mixes, even with all the tracks highlighted I can't get them all to go to mixbus like you do in one action. I have to individually change them all. Am I doing something wrong? Can you tell me what keys strokes you are using. Cheers mate.

Thanks !!!

shiteee, wish i learned this a long time ago, so much time wasted from bouncing so many times, i feel like my mind just promoted itself

You recorded fall out boy?!

@Riche Ahmed: No, he's just remixing a FOB song.

THANK GOD we have REAPER now.

interesting

I don't understand your concept. It's relevant..

Hey dude, good video. Everything is dead on. Just going to make a note here, in the future try to avoid having so much mouth noise sneaking into your commentary. It's a bit distracting to hear your tongue and lips moving around behind your voice.

this video is too quiet.