Guitar tracks editing: searching Beat Detective tutorials.

[Heabow]

Hey,

I hate to edit rythm guitar tracks and I usually do it by hand, it takes time and now I have to do it faster and better. I tried Beat Detective several times on DIs o save time on, say, machine gun like riffs but it never worked. I know some engineers use BD this way so I searched on the web for tutorials 'metal oriented' but I found nothing. Any link to such tutorials would be appreciated Thank you!!

 

[Jormyn]

I literally just Googled "beat detective guitars" and got these just on the first page:

https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug03/articles/protoolsnotes.htm
https://www.soundonsound.com/sos/dec05/articles/protoolsnotes.htm
https://premium.production-expert.com/media/beat-detective-on-guitars-in-pro-tools/21585

There isn't anything super specific about doing it for metal, you're just editing a lot tighter than you would for other genres. For metal, anything more than a few milliseconds of "slop" might be noticeable.

 

[Heabow]

Thanks man. I did see these ones. I was not very clear actually, I wonder if some guys here made more specific tutorials.

 

[Machinated]

what issues are you having?

 

[waav studios]

honestly, that kind of stuff is better done manually. if you want to continue trying it with beat detective i totally support and understand that, but it usually taken me more time going through and finding spaces where beat detective mangled things than it would have just doing it by hand.

in the interest of doing things faster, sometimes what i will do is find a part where the riff is repeated and i'll find the best take and copy and paste it. its kinda cheating, but sometimes you gotta cut corners when budgets are running out. if it sounds natural enough then why the hell not. this might seem like sacrilege to some people, but what the hell, drums are barely real anymore, so much processing goes into recording to make something sound the way it never really does, why not. nothing is sacred anymore, ha.

 

[Heabow]

@ Machinated: Usually bad detection and bad placement. So maybe it just doesn't work for DI guitar tarcks or I do something wrong (I have no problem with BD for drum editing tho)

@ waav studios: Of course I don't have any problem copying good sections, I'd like to find some tools to work faster in certain situations

 

[greyskull]

TBH, I've never had the greatest of luck doing guitars with BD. It can work on some slower stuff, but I don't think it's the magic bullet you may hope it to be.