question on pro tools sessions.

[thirdeye11]

hi,

I'm relatively new to tools and i am about to start recording a bands EP on it.

I am wondering if it is a good idea to put all the songs in the one session one after another or if I should have a new session for each song?

I have seen multiple songs in 1 session before, but I have no idea if it slows down the computer too much or what.

thanks

 

[bennychico11]

you can do it either way. there are benefits to both.
personally i prefer having different EQ/automation settings for each track for their individual songs. I don't always want the guitar to sound the same way. But sometimes it's easier to manage you audio that way.
it's up to you.

 

[Cloneboy Studio]

Track everything in one session, when you are done *consolidate regions*, purge extraneous data from drive, and save the session. Open up the session, rename as the song and have a seperate session for each song.

Allows for fast tracking all-at-once, and individual mixes per song.

Alternately, you can put a "default mix" on the session before you break it up into parts. That way you can have your aux busses, basic EQ/compression, drum sound or whatnot already setup before you tackle the songs individually.

 

[giraffe]

Track everything in one session, when you are done *consolidate regions*, purge extraneous data from drive, and save the session. Open up the session, rename as the song and have a seperate session for each song.

Allows for fast tracking all-at-once, and individual mixes per song.

Alternately, you can put a "default mix" on the session before you break it up into parts. That way you can have your aux busses, basic EQ/compression, drum sound or whatnot already setup before you tackle the songs individually.

as far as i can tell, this is the best of both worlds, i'll do my rough mix... including setting up some eq, comp and aux returns (muted, but with stuff bussed to them at random volumes to be tweaked after i've decided on reverbs)
one less thing to do ten different times.

 

[thirdeye11]

thanks

thanks for the responses guys

they were all really helpfull,

cheers