I’m reposting this section of Q&A 31 because not a lot of people saw it but I think it’s super important. Automating a mix shouldn’t be a chore or intimidating. The way I suggest doesn’t break the creative flow (for me at least), and I can get things sounding exactly as I like for each section of the song.

In Q&A 31 Matthias asked:
What’s the best way to organize, if I want processing chain to change radically between verse, bridge, chorus on 4-5 tracks (lead voc, bg voc, guitars, drums)? Ie. have completely different eq, dynamics and special fx in different sections of the song. Automating fx on same tracks seems complicated, and separate tracks for each section is cumbersome to work with.

My personal preference for this is to work in Latch Preview mode, using the global automation mode, and a cycle action I built to make it all possible with a single hotkey.

I think this is by far the best workflow improvement I’ve ever made with mixing.

Automation used to be a chore and take me out of the creative flow and now it’s something I enjoy and use without hesitation. I’m using this on music mixing and mastering and in my video production.

For more details please see my older video on the topic, where I spend more time on this and explain the cycle action. The cycle action can be downloaded with my subscriber bundle.

To see this in use on a real mix project check out my Mixing In REAPER vol 3 course


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