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The Precision Bass Guy
Part III
There's something else that bugged me about 2.0, in contrast to the earlier versions: it seems like I can easily cut and paste, mix and paste, delete and so on without it affecting the length of the files. When I do the same with 2.0, I end up with a track out of synch because it's now shorter or longer. I'm willing to believe there's something I'm overlooking, but -- with the other things I don't like about 2.0 -- I've never gone back and tried to find out what.
My recordings incorporate live performances with overdubs, or pieces from other recordings inserted into whatever I'm working on. As noted previously I don't do sequencers or loops or other "cheaters" (no offense, everyone I record has a stage band background, and wouldn't know a synth if it ran up to them on stage and wagged its tail).
Tuesday I pieced together a 96-minute lecture with audience questions and edited it down to 76 minutes, so it'd fit on a CD for distribution to persons who had missed the event. The speaker had a wireless directional mic clipped to his shirt, and was recorded into a computer on the premises loaded with CEP 2.0. I set up an additional condenser mic facing the audience, but the configuration of the original wireless setup didn't allow me to record that to CEP simultaneously; I plugged it into a Korg D888 and recorded that track independently of the first. As a consequence, not only were the two tracks not synchronized, they were different overall lengths since the two machines had been started and stopped at slightly different times.
I copied the lecture onto a thumb drive and took it and the Korg home, where I imported both into a single session of AA 1.5.
The first chore was to move the lecture track to Edit View so I could edit out enough time to meet the CD max time limit, so I went through the whole hour and 36 minutes and [ctrl/C] cut out verbal stumbles, false starts, coughs etc until I had a natural sounding track under the 80 minute time limit. Of course, I also did noise reduction and compression as needed.
The audience track then got the noise reduction and compression treatment. I then found the places where the speaker paused to listen to questions, found that particular question on the second track, did a "Bounce to empty track" for that segment and then slid it into place (hard to do perfectly, so I did a crossfade for each instance of inserting the questions).
When I was done, I had a listenable CD with intelligible questions and clarity in all elements.
It was time consuming but next week will be easier (the guy who set up the single-channel wireless will be back from Panama, and we'll have both tracks going into the Korg).
My point? This was all so easy -- if time-consuming -- in the earlier version of Audition. My experience trying similar chores in 2.0 has been frustrating and has usually ended in failure.
There's something else that bugged me about 2.0, in contrast to the earlier versions: it seems like I can easily cut and paste, mix and paste, delete and so on without it affecting the length of the files. When I do the same with 2.0, I end up with a track out of synch because it's now shorter or longer. I'm willing to believe there's something I'm overlooking, but -- with the other things I don't like about 2.0 -- I've never gone back and tried to find out what.
My recordings incorporate live performances with overdubs, or pieces from other recordings inserted into whatever I'm working on. As noted previously I don't do sequencers or loops or other "cheaters" (no offense, everyone I record has a stage band background, and wouldn't know a synth if it ran up to them on stage and wagged its tail).
Tuesday I pieced together a 96-minute lecture with audience questions and edited it down to 76 minutes, so it'd fit on a CD for distribution to persons who had missed the event. The speaker had a wireless directional mic clipped to his shirt, and was recorded into a computer on the premises loaded with CEP 2.0. I set up an additional condenser mic facing the audience, but the configuration of the original wireless setup didn't allow me to record that to CEP simultaneously; I plugged it into a Korg D888 and recorded that track independently of the first. As a consequence, not only were the two tracks not synchronized, they were different overall lengths since the two machines had been started and stopped at slightly different times.
I copied the lecture onto a thumb drive and took it and the Korg home, where I imported both into a single session of AA 1.5.
The first chore was to move the lecture track to Edit View so I could edit out enough time to meet the CD max time limit, so I went through the whole hour and 36 minutes and [ctrl/C] cut out verbal stumbles, false starts, coughs etc until I had a natural sounding track under the 80 minute time limit. Of course, I also did noise reduction and compression as needed.
The audience track then got the noise reduction and compression treatment. I then found the places where the speaker paused to listen to questions, found that particular question on the second track, did a "Bounce to empty track" for that segment and then slid it into place (hard to do perfectly, so I did a crossfade for each instance of inserting the questions).
When I was done, I had a listenable CD with intelligible questions and clarity in all elements.
It was time consuming but next week will be easier (the guy who set up the single-channel wireless will be back from Panama, and we'll have both tracks going into the Korg).
My point? This was all so easy -- if time-consuming -- in the earlier version of Audition. My experience trying similar chores in 2.0 has been frustrating and has usually ended in failure.
