Introducing: The Mixtool

Great Things Come In Small Packages

Never a truer statement has been made when it comes to the stock plugin known as the Mixtool. This little somewhat insignificant plugin definitely punches above it's weight. It has several functions and would sit quite happily amongst the company of Pro Tools Trim tool but it improves on that by giving a few more options.

Stereo track version.

Mixtool provides common track utilities, including independent left- and right-channel inversion, left- and right-channel swap, and MS transformation of stereo signals. Use Mixtool when inverting channels to correct for phase cancellation and correlation issues, as well as to provide MS transformation to decode signals recorded with Mid-Side stereo configurations.

The following parameters are available for Mixtool when used on a stereo Track:

• Gain Set overall output Gain (Volume).
• Block DC Offset Re-centers the incoming waveform, to remove any DC Offset in the audio signal.
• Invert Left Click to invert the phase of the left playback channel for a stereo Track.
• Invert Right Click to invert the phase of the right playback channel for a stereo Track.
• Swap Channels Click to swap left and right Mixtool input channels. Stereo Tracks only.
• MS Transform Click to perform a Mid-Side transform on the Mixtool input channels. Stereo Tracks only. Generally used to decode MS-recorded signals or to create MS signals for stereo image processing.

When used on a mono Track, the Mixtool plug-in has one control to invert the phase of the signal.

Mono Track Version.

Watch the short video below as I show a few examples of this excellent little utility.