Editing the Wav File?

[TelePaul]

Hey guys, I've been trying to track some acoustic guitar...at one point i juts coem in a little early with my accentuation. When I try and cut and move, its severely noticeable. I try and set up a crossfade and fade just rior to the cut and quickly fade back in, but it sounds terrible! What am I doing wrong?

[travelin travis]

cut at precise points. cut before and after any peaks around the note that you're moving. don't cut in the middle of a peak. zoom in on the wave form to make it easier.

[TelePaul]

I do that alright, and it seems like it should be easy enough, though there seems to a noticeable difference where the track is cut...could this be from using compression?

[travelin travis]

Compression should'nt do anything like that, as long as the compression is applied to the entire track. If you're cutting mid note/chord (like a sustained chord), it's going to be alot more noticeable. Can you post a clip of the section you're working on?

[Farview]

Editing acoustic guitar is a pain. Timing mistakes have to be fixed using time stretching techniques.

[TelePaul]

Thanks Far....can ya explain a little more about time stretching? I think the problem with aocustic is that you rarely strum one sustaining chord...rhythms are constant, even if its just palm mutes or an upstroke or whatever.

[Farview]

The big problem is nothing is consistant, the sound of a string changes as it decays so you can't cut and crossfade it without it sounding strange.

In Nuendo/Cubase there is a time stretching option, I just use that. You will have to check the manual for your software to see if you have it.

What you do is: Cut the part before the transients (the notes), move them to where they need to be, then stretch the audio to fill in the gaps and crossfade.

[TelePaul]

Originally Posted by Farview

The big problem is nothing is consistant, the sound of a string changes as it decays so you can't cut and crossfade it without it sounding strange.

In Nuendo/Cubase there is a time stretching option, I just use that. You will have to check the manual for your software to see if you have it.

What you do is: Cut the part before the transients (the notes), move them to where they need to be, then stretch the audio to fill in the gaps and crossfade.

I have Cubase, ill look at the glossary.

[Farview]

Originally Posted by TelePaul

I have Cubase, ill look at the glossary.

If you have SX, you just hit the arrow tool button until the cursor has a little clock attached to it. Then just pull the audio. That's it.

[NL5]

Originally Posted by Farview

If you have SX, you just hit the arrow tool button until the cursor has a little clock attached to it. Then just pull the audio. That's it.

Cool! I did not know that.

[TelePaul]

Hrmmm I have SE....