“control-shift-option-3″ saved my life when I was a child growing up in a burning building. Now I am paying it back by bringing it to the masses. Make a selection on the time-line and hit “control-shift-option-3″ (A riff on “shift-option-3″:Consolidate selection) and you will get a sparkling new region of 1k sine wave at -20db.
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Wow, very informative tip!
Hi,
What would be the shortcut for -18 dBFS, if any ?
Thanks for the tip !
Cheers,
Olivier
Hey Olivier,
As far as I know there isn’t one for -18dbFS, I tried changing my “Calibration Reference Level” in the preferences window to -18 but it still wrote -20. I think you’re stuck with the audiosuite…
Thanks for the comment and come back soon!
I can’t see the keyboard character icons– in Firefox or in Internet Explorer! I’m on a PC.
Oh… thanks Shawn, did not know that PC’s can’t display them… I will see if I can fix this… in the mean time, I have included typed out key commands in this post and the ones above… thank you so much for the heads up!
wow, this just made my day.
Can anyone confirm that this trick works on PC? I can’t get it to work and I’m highly desirous of it.
I can neither confirm nor deny… don’t have a PC with Pro Tools on it… I will look into it, though, and see if I can come up with an answer for you.
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What if you saved the default plug in setting for the audio suite signal generator to your required levels?
@Mike
Nope… still just 1k @ -20dbfs
sorry!
great tip!
WTF I thought I was the only PT bro that knew that quick key… Whenever I show someone up in Pro Tools I bust out that guy for the finale… Or my acronym for all the steps for putting PT Online… Apple Deuce (2) and Apple Juice (J)…