Some DAWS call them "regions" other "Events". What I am talking about is the cone shaped sound wave you see in your DAWS editing grid.
When editing drums you'll usually see a cone shaped sound wave for each hit that shows the initial hit (largest part of the wave) and then it tapers as the what ever drum sustain tails off right? Even on a quick roll of 4 or 8 hits you usually can see the peak of each hit.
My problem is I have a couple songs I have to edit drums and the people that recorded the drums must have done something wrong with their set up as the quick rolls are all mush meaning there is zero distinction between each hit and makes it impossible to see where each hit is. Its all just one big long tall audio region that does not show ANY variation between hits. I can guess where the hit are, but they are soo fast that I feel I would screw the song up if I guessed wrong.
My question is.... is this a performance technique my the drummer ? Is it a gating setting set up wrong, are the Preamp trims set too high ? Is the drum heads too boomy that they sustain too long. I have never encountered this before and is very frustrating.
I am trying to figure out how to coach them so the next tracks are not so time consuming for me. Any ideas how should I tell them to change their set up ?
thanks for any tips. I hope I explained it ok.
When editing drums you'll usually see a cone shaped sound wave for each hit that shows the initial hit (largest part of the wave) and then it tapers as the what ever drum sustain tails off right? Even on a quick roll of 4 or 8 hits you usually can see the peak of each hit.
My problem is I have a couple songs I have to edit drums and the people that recorded the drums must have done something wrong with their set up as the quick rolls are all mush meaning there is zero distinction between each hit and makes it impossible to see where each hit is. Its all just one big long tall audio region that does not show ANY variation between hits. I can guess where the hit are, but they are soo fast that I feel I would screw the song up if I guessed wrong.
My question is.... is this a performance technique my the drummer ? Is it a gating setting set up wrong, are the Preamp trims set too high ? Is the drum heads too boomy that they sustain too long. I have never encountered this before and is very frustrating.
I am trying to figure out how to coach them so the next tracks are not so time consuming for me. Any ideas how should I tell them to change their set up ?
thanks for any tips. I hope I explained it ok.