Cutting up Chords

[Steve M]

I'm recording a solo jazz guitar piece. The overall performance is fine but I'd like to reduce the duration of a couple of chords without playing the whole thing again. I understand that I can do this easily in Cubasis by using its automation function. But just to see if it would sound OK, I've been trying use Wave Lab Lite to cut off the last of the chords I want to shorten, and then apply fade-outs to simmulate stopping the chord quicker than it is already. The result sounds like nothing more than turning the volume down very quickly and lacks the mildly percusive sound of fingers dampening the strings. I'll do fine without the Wav editing for this purpose (play the chord again shorter and automate to mix) but I was curious to see if anyone has had luck editing a guitar chord to be shorter in duration, and still be able to simulate the natural cut off sound of strings being damped by fingers.

Thanks,

Steve M

 

[Torpid-x]

Hey Steve
Have you tried to cut after the attack naunce and remove the blank space. if you try this it may help to overlap the pick nuance over the follow sound a couple of millliseconds.

 

[foo]

Try a noise gate. If you set it up right it can be a very percussive effect.

foo