Lord bless drum editing...

[Ermz]

I've got a question actually. I've been dumping all unused audio files as I go, but it seems the fade folder has retained about 17,000 files. I have no fades in my project after consolidating. What's the best way to empty these out? Does ProTools have a feature, or am I cool to just go into the folder and wipe them manually?

 

[ahjteam]

I've got a question actually. I've been dumping all unused audio files as I go, but it seems the fade folder has retained about 17,000 files. I have no fades in my project after consolidating. What's the best way to empty these out? Does ProTools have a feature, or am I cool to just go into the folder and wipe them manually?

Do a new project folder and keep that one as a backup?

 

[Ermz]

Yeah just did that now. 'Save Copy In' and chose not to transfer the fade files. Went down from 20 to 2.88GB.

And here's the very last one for this project....

I noticed that my editing got better as I went along. The last track was the 'easiest' and came up the strongest, needing the least amendments.

Elastic Audio definitely owns for moving the kick around. Since everything else is relatively simple, bar the fills, it all comes together fairly fast, even with no multi-track beat detective.

 

[greyskull]

pah!

 

[JEY666]

Try this stuff for shitti drummers who can't play double bass It feels almost like a normal drum head,much better than trigger pad or something like that.
http://www.thomann.de/gb/tdrum_th22_triggerhead.htm
Cheers

 

[digitaldeath]

...It feels almost like a normal drum head...

No it doesn't!

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I just plain refuse to do that anymore, at this point I am pretty up front about things:

"I am going to sample replace the whole kit if the drums are sloppy."

I have not had a complaint yet.

 

[greyskull]

Hi guys! Is there a good tutorial how to edit and quantize live drums in Protools here in the forum?
I'm new in the Protools DAW and it is hard to learn all this new stuff...

Thanks!
Dimi

heres how i do it

Bd greyskull style

 

[Executioner213]

Forgive my ignorance...."consolidated"??

 

[Metaltastic]

Turning all those little slices into one big beautiful new wav file

 

[Executioner213]

Duh...sorry

 

[doclegion]

I just learned how to do this and i been doing it all week now, Luckly the drums i click tracked
Its just a pain in the ass, i been recording our bands CD and i play drums and i mapped everything, I did really well and couldve left it BUT??/ I had to mess with it and actually see how tight i can get it now im dreading the last song hahahah

 

[::XeS::]

can't imagine why you'd want to leave it totally unconsolidated all the way through the whole song like that.

How much frequently do you consolid your edited tracks?
I mean, in every section I edit, cut, separate and smooth but after that I edit the next section...and I do the consolidation at the end.
Do you consolid every section you edit?

 

[James Murphy]

no, but i do it once ever few sections... around a minute of music or so on average i think... depends on length, number of drum tracks, and complexity of the drums

 

[Lasse Lammert]

Oh man, I can't imagine anything worse than having to edit in that DAW.

check my tutorial vid in this thread:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/equipment/502235-how-do-beat-detective-cubase-tutorial-_o.html

still, PTTHD BD is the shit and can't be touched

 

[if6was9]

Using something to cover the BD helps reduce mids and highs in the OH tracks, which is pretty much all you need, since they are filtered below ~600hz

Thats what I was thinking. You don't want the blanket to kill everything, you just want your highs and mids to get killed cause you're eqing the lows and low mids out of your OH's anyway

I haven't done much crazy editing in my projects yet, I tend to do more to guitars and bass than I do with drums. Then again alot of the guys I've recorded are stoner and doom metal so drum quantization hasn't really been called for

 

[Ermz]

check my tutorial vid in this thread:

http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/equipment/502235-how-do-beat-detective-cubase-tutorial-_o.html

still, PTTHD BD is the shit and can't be touched

Yeah that's cool man. I appreciate that you took the time to really get your method in working with that DAW down. I just have no love or desire to do so myself. I would much rather do it in LE, even without multi-track BD. Just looking at the Cubase UI makes me sick, especially if there are a lot of edits.