Slip Editing multi traked guitars

[Ericlingus]

How do you guys slip edit doubled or quad tracked guitars? Do you edit them one at a time or together? If you double a track and them edit one and then edit the other couldnt it make it sound weird? Could anyone explain in detail how to do it?

 

[Heabow]

One track at a time of course as each one is different.

 

[AudioGeekZine]

if it's multiple mics, you group them. If it's multiple takes, you edit separate.
Either way you have to listen.

How to?
split, drag, scroll, repeat.

 

[DanLights]

Yeah one by one, all to the grid. Of course, as said above, of it's multiple mics of the same take, you have to do it together, like with drum overheads, you'd get weird phase issues otherwise

 

[IronApe]

if it's multiple mics, you group them. If it's multiple takes, you edit separate.
Either way you have to listen.

How to?
split, drag, scroll, repeat.

Best editing tutorial ever.

 

[Ericlingus]

when you are aligning the tracks do you keep the snap button off and just eye it. If you do it by eye, are you able to get it really close? It seems hard to get it perfect. Do you find guitars are harder to do than drums?

 

[AudioGeekZine]

I think all this stuff will be clear once you start doing it.

 

[Ericlingus]

i've started to experiment with it and I have a hard time finding the transient. On one track i'll grab a transient and the other track i'll grab one but it's not always at the exact spot. For example, one track i'll maybe grab slightly before the transient and the other, slightly after or something. This is or course zoomed in a lot but how do you guys slip the audio at the same spot relative to the guitar track?

 

[AudioGeekZine]

It's usually pretty clear if you're looking at the DI signal. If you don't have the DI then you can't rely on how the edit looks as much.
Grid should be on and visible through or over items. Auto-crossfade on, 3-5ms. Snap off.

Edit a bar or two, then listen. adjust if necessary.

 

[Ericlingus]

how do you know those are the transients? for example on the second row first hit, how do you know that's the spot opposed to the very first one to the left?

 

[IronApe]

Wikipedia: "a transient is a high amplitude, short-duration sound at the beginning of a waveform that occurs in phenomena such as musical sounds, noises or speech."

 

[AudioGeekZine]

I've pointed out the start of the note. That's what the transient is.

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