God Damn I Hate Editing Drumz!

[Uladyne]

It took me 3 fucking hours to replace the drums on one song, and I'm still not totally happy with it yet (it's getting close, though) plus I have 7 songs to go. Argh.

Granted, most of the time was spent trying to find sweet settings for aptrigga, (Well worth the money, thanks for the recommendation Metaltastic!) so the rest of the songs should go much faster, but still, this shit is fucking gay and super boring.

I'm kind of digging how the snare is sounding, though. I had the drummer use my Yamaha 13" Musashi Japanese Oak snare and we sampled it, and it is sounding quite nice. Might have to share the samples later.

K sorry for the rant, I just had to get out of my head for a minute. Back to the dungeon!!!

Oh BTW, what is a fair price to charge mofo's for drum editing on a local band kind of level? I'm keeping track of my hours but I have no idea what would be fair.

 

[KeithTidd]

¯\(°_o)/¯ How do edit drums?


... I had to do it.

 

[Moonlight_Seeker]

Aaaaaah, I am not alone. I have no idea for a fair price though.

Bad drummers should get electronic drums imho.

 

[[UEAK]Clowd]

It took me 3 fucking hours to replace the drums on one song, and I'm still not totally happy with it yet (it's getting close, though) plus I have 7 songs to go. Argh.

Granted, most of the time was spent trying to find sweet settings for aptrigga, (Well worth the money, thanks for the recommendation Metaltastic!) so the rest of the songs should go much faster, but still, this shit is fucking gay and super boring.

I'm kind of digging how the snare is sounding, though. I had the drummer use my Yamaha 13" Musashi Japanese Oak snare and we sampled it, and it is sounding quite nice. Might have to share the samples later.

K sorry for the rant, I just had to get out of my head for a minute. Back to the dungeon!!!

Oh BTW, what is a fair price to charge mofo's for drum editing on a local band kind of level? I'm keeping track of my hours but I have no idea what would be fair.

I always include it in the budget from the start. I have only ever recorded a single band that didn't require drum editing.

If I was charging separately for editing... um, probably like $500/hour ? haha

 

[ahjteam]

wasn't it audiogeekzine who had drum editing service you could use if you really hate that shit?

 

[Uladyne]

I always include it in the budget from the start. I have only ever recorded a single band that didn't require drum editing.

If I was charging separately for editing... um, probably like $500/hour ? haha

Haha that sounds good to me!

 

[Uladyne]

wasn't it audiogeekzine who had drum editing service you could use if you really hate that shit?

I haven't the money to spare. I'm just gonna power on through. I guess I'll be slightly stronger when I'm done. I'll probably have a few thousand fewer brain cells, though.

 

[[UEAK]Clowd]

I haven't the money to spare. I'm just gonna power on through. I guess I'll be slightly stronger when I'm done. I'll probably have a few thousand fewer brain cells, though.

Eventually you get in a rhythm, or at least I do... the first song takes forever, the second song is a little easier, and by the last one you should be just straight up cruising.

Unfortunately it seems to reset from project to project. The first song is always slow.

 

[Zombietakeover]

i love editing.....smoke weed it won't be so boring

 

[jesus69lol]

i love editing.....smoke weed it won't be so boring

when i smoke weed and edit it kills me because i can't play any music and edit at the same time. almost ruins the high for me.

 

[Zombietakeover]

Also when I'm editing boring stuff.....I usually have howard stern playing on my Sirius/XM player and i have it turned way down so when the music is off and im making those boring cuts and pastes.....i got some background noise to listen too....

 

[006]

Zombie has the right idea guys. When I get stuff that needs the uber edit treatment a little weed goes a long way, if you smoke of course. Also good to have something entertaining in the background, literally exactly as Zombie says, so that in between listening back you have something going on to keep it from being mundane. One session the band stuck around for the editing process just because they had nothing better to do, we threw on a pr0n dvd that happened to be funny (over the top) so it was real fun laughing at it and whatnot.

Ula, you need to check out DrumTracker, no joke. It will make your life easier

~006

 

[Metaltastic]

"Hey guys, how tightly quantized do you think the kick should be here? Cuz I kinda like the feel it has of pushing the tempo"


(background) "I'm gonna fuck you in the ass"
"But that's where I poop!"
"Not today you don't!"

 

[006]

 

[Metaltastic]

Mike, why did you just repost the exact same thing?

 

[Uladyne]

Zombie has the right idea guys. When I get stuff that needs the uber edit treatment a little weed goes a long way, if you smoke of course. Also good to have something entertaining in the background, literally exactly as Zombie says, so that in between listening back you have something going on to keep it from being mundane. One session the band stuck around for the editing process just because they had nothing better to do, we threw on a pr0n dvd that happened to be funny (over the top) so it was real fun laughing at it and whatnot.

Ula, you need to check out DrumTracker, no joke. It will make your life easier

~006

I don't smoke weed, so I can't really go there, but the background noise thing sounds like a good idea. I'm going to have to start doing that. After a couple hours I start feeling like a zombie, haha.

Drumtracker looks awesome. I'll definitely have to get that before I do another project for sure.

 

[-J-]

"not today you don't!" LOL

reminds me of a funny line from Hard Pump: "you learn to take it up the ass and you aint' never gonna git pregnant!"

 

[ElektricEyez]

Try putting a transient designer in front of the ApTrigga to make those drums pop, giving you an easier time to work with the trigger settings. Digital Phish Phones has one called Dominion at no charge.

 

[pifos_2]

"Hey guys, how tightly quantized do you think the kick should be here? Cuz I kinda like the feel it has of pushing the tempo"


(background) "I'm gonna fuck you in the ass"
"But that's where I poop!"
"Not today you don't!"

ahahhahahahahahha

 

[krokit]

Try putting a transient designer in front of the ApTrigga to make those drums pop, giving you an easier time to work with the trigger settings. Digital Phish Phones has one called Dominion at no charge.

Good idea ElektricEyez! Somtimes I want 100% triggered sample for blending purposes and if the drummer aint wacking his snare the triggered snare can sound a little lame so this will hopefully spare me having to tab to transient and paste ect. Why doesnt aptrigga have the option of turning off the dynamic function so that it can trigger at 100% velocity if required?