YanKleber
Retired
A couple days ago close to finish the master of one of my albums as usual I put all the tracks in a folder to listen to it as I would do to any regular album to feel how it sounded overall.
Everything seemed to be fine except that I noticed a subtle dropout in two songs (that I never had noticed before).
Then I came back to the mix to investigate what was causing it. It wasn't too hard to find: in both cases they were exactly in a part of the song where I cut the medias and repeated them (to stretch the duration of the song).
Looking very close to the tracks graphics I noticed that I had slightly cross-faded the joint (fade out at left media and fade in at right media) and immediately I suspected that it could be the reason of the dropout. I started to mute the tracks one by one while listening but the problem seemed to remain until I muted the drum ride track and the problem vanished!
The solution was as simple as to remove the cross-fade in THIS track and the problem has gone. Lesson learned!
In short: Don't use cross-fade when pruning and grafting drum ride media.
I thought that it could be something interesting to share to others.
Everything seemed to be fine except that I noticed a subtle dropout in two songs (that I never had noticed before).
Then I came back to the mix to investigate what was causing it. It wasn't too hard to find: in both cases they were exactly in a part of the song where I cut the medias and repeated them (to stretch the duration of the song).
Looking very close to the tracks graphics I noticed that I had slightly cross-faded the joint (fade out at left media and fade in at right media) and immediately I suspected that it could be the reason of the dropout. I started to mute the tracks one by one while listening but the problem seemed to remain until I muted the drum ride track and the problem vanished!
The solution was as simple as to remove the cross-fade in THIS track and the problem has gone. Lesson learned!
In short: Don't use cross-fade when pruning and grafting drum ride media.
I thought that it could be something interesting to share to others.