Editing the Wav File?

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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?
 
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.
 
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?
 
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?
 
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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.
 
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.
 
Farview said:
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.
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I have Cubase, ill look at the glossary.
 
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TelePaul said:
I have Cubase, ill look at the glossary.
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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.
 
Farview said:
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.
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Cool! I did not know that. :D
 
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