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LESSON 13
Sweetening Your Sound and Mixing Audio
1
Open Lesson 13-4.prproj. This project picks up where you left off with the 
Sonoma Choir.
2
Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) an audio track header in the 
Timeline, and using the figure shown here as a guide, choose Add Tracks. Set 
the Add values for Video Tracks and Audio Tracks to 0, set the Add value for 
Audio Submix Tracks to 2, and set Track Type for Audio Submix Tracks to 
Stereo; then click OK.
That adds two submix tracks to the Timeline and two tracks to the Audio Mixer 
(they have a darker hue), and it adds those submix track names (Submix 1 and 
Submix 2) to the pop-up menus at the bottom of the Audio Mixer.
3
Click the Left track’s Track Output Assignment pop-up menu (at the bottom of 
the Audio Mixer), and select Submix 1.
4
Do the same for the Right track.
Now both the Left and Right tracks have been sent to Submix 1. Their 
individual characteristics—panning and volume—will not change.
5
Send the three instrument tracks to Submix 2.
6
Apply Reverb to the Submix 1 track by clicking the Show/Hide Effects triangle 
and adding Reverb as an effect. Click its Solo Track button, play the audio, and 
adjust the Reverb parameters to make it sound like the choir is singing in a large 
auditorium (setting Size to about 60 is a good place to start).

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Apply Reverb to the Submix 2 track, click its Solo Track button, switch off the 
Submix 1 Solo button (remember you can solo more than one track, but in this 
case you want to solo only Submix 2), play its audio, and set its parameters to 
create a sound a bit less dramatic than the voices.
8
Click the Solo button on Submix 1, and listen to these two submixes as a single 
mix to see how they sound.
Feel free to tweak the Volume and Reverb settings.