For example, when I record verse riff and stop, and then record chorus. The garbage on the end off the verse riff, and on the start off the chorus riff get layered and sound horrible.
What causes 'snapping' when cutting tracks?
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For example, when I record verse riff and stop, and then record chorus. The garbage on the end off the verse riff, and on the start off the chorus riff get layered and sound horrible.
Ermz
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That's why you record onto one track using QuickPunch then adjust the start and end times of both takes until it sounds reasonably natural. Then you subsequently crossfade with a length that's inaudible.
Torniojaws
They call me Juha
I don't have Cubase at hand now (at school), but if I remember, it's:
Project (in the top menu, next to File, Edit and such)
Auto-Fades | Auto-Crossfades (checked)
and adjust the fade modes to your liking.
You need to enable it every time you start a new project! Unless you load the project from a template that had auto-crossfades enabled before saving it as a template.
There's also two different modes:
- Auto-Fade = Cubase fades in/out the takes before the end and during the beginning of it (like a very fast song fade in/out, or like the volume drop/rise you hear in album teasers that show many different songs)
- Auto-Crossfade = Cubase fades takes between each other without the volume drop
blackbird
Toltec
I just switched these settings on one of my current project in Cubase 4 and I really cant see any fades and cross fades in the wave images...on the project track window.
I'm doing all my fades and crossfades manually looking at he waveform of the DI track...I'm a controlfreak
i do this too
automation is your friend
Noumenon
Obsidian Productions
grywolf627
Member
Why?
Play all the thing like real men do!
Cut and paste... ...bah...
everyone i ever get wants to copy paste shit liek they can only play it one time or somethign.... take into consideration i am an engineer/mixer first and foremost and i think its shittty to copy and paste.... i wont do it and wont jepordize my recordings by doing it...
James-Doolan
Member
I dont see how using cut and paste will jepordize your recordings I would think that having a poorly played, untight guitar/bass part would be far worse.
You have to remember this is not a live gig nobody cares if the artist can play it all perfect in one go. What people care about is the end product and if using cut and paste can produce a better end product im all for it.
JeffTD
Senhor Testiculo
kev
Im guybrush threepwood
not necessarily i like a little different variety on the guitar parts that come from playing the parts again ..copy and pasted parts just sound stale to me..
when you know another take could have been done the correct way ... .......i just tell them to do it untill they get it right.... or there stuck with a shitty take as simple as that and 99 percent of them will get it right.. the other 1 percent get sent home to practice untill they can get it right
i don't work with unprepared projects in the studio............................my time is worth more than these people want to spend to write/practice songs in the studio on my time....
first studio rule i tell the cliants i work with is .Be prepared and know your material you are playing...
if you dont, i will ask them to leave and not waste my time
Dude, what is with these ellipses? This:
is so ridiculous it looks like self-parody, and really kinda makes you sound like "super-pretentious audio engineer man." Not doubting your abilities here, just saying, it comes off as pretty over-the-top...
is so ridiculous it looks like self-parody, and really kinda makes you sound like "super-pretentious audio engineer man." Not doubting your abilities here, just saying, it comes off as pretty over-the-top...
over the top, not at all .....this happen way too often.I have rules in my studio and stick to them. every client i work with knows the rules before hand,and be prepared is the first one.... i put 100 percent effort into every project i work on..its my job to give my best, its the bands responsibility to give me 100 percent as well, and being unprepared knowing your coming into the studio is not part of that 100 percent...
noone i know wants to pay $50-200 an hour to sit and try to write a song in the studio. minus the engineers fee , that you know you could have practiced and arranged it before entering the studio ... i give them every ample opportunities to get it right and to make changes if necessary there's a point where you have to cut it off and say practice this.. its not worth it to the band and can take a project way over budget..... not trying to rip people off i would rather be honest with them.
being prepared shows the minute a band hits the studio...
Why?
Play all the thing like real men do!
Cut and paste... ...bah...
Well this particular song was with a clean sound, and alot of chord changes and sliding around on the fretboard, with often produced alot of unwanted noise, which was very hard to get rid of and bugged the hell out of me, even if they were just slide-noises. So playing the stuff all the times that they were repeated and not getting any noise was somewhat impossible, hence getting it down once or twice, and then c+p seemed the better alternative.
I see your point.
Still, I prefer to struggle and maybe keeping some slides and noises in (and backing the clean tracks with some strings/keyboards, very subtle but they gel every clean part together really well) in the case you're pointing out.
But hey, it's my two cents and I can understand that in an environment where the band is paying for the time cut and paste is an effective compromise. When it's personal projects and no money involved...
...playing everything from start to finish not only it improves my (and anyone else's) hands but it's more real and rewarding to have it done well.
