Pro Tool v7.4 editing voice leaves ticks sometimes

[jbcampo]

Hi all. I started voiceovers in 2008 with PTv7.4. After a few years, I gave up, but have revived doing voice work this year thanks to Amazon ACX.

I do my own production editing/mastering with PT. In a track, many times when I select a portion of the track to cut and delete, or to move elsewhere, or to insert silence, the newly inserted region, at the border edges of where I cut or pasted, leaves a tick sound. I replay the general region and hear this tick sound. I go back over the region edge to cut off more, and eventually, I get the tick to disappear.

Am I doing something wrong, or have I set something wrong in my setup that leaves these tick sounds sometimes? It's very annoying and adds a lot of work to my QC checks.

I would appreciate advice from you PT users. thank you.

 

[bouldersoundguy]

You need to manually add fades or crossfades. Or bail on PT and get something else that does that kind of editing more efficiently. Sony Vegas automatically adds a 10ms fade at all edits and it makes crossfading super fast and easy. I believe Reaper also behaves in a similar way.

 

[ido1957]

Yes I cross fade every comp / clip in Sonar because it does the same "tick" thing if I don't.

 

[jonny deep]

Surely a preferences setting will do the trick?!?!

 

[Steenamaroo]

Surely a preferences setting will do the trick?!?!

I don't think there's an automatic setting, but you can select many regions on the timeline and just hit F to apply default fade, which is way quicker than region by region.

I mean, really you could select-all and hit fade. Shouldn't do anything but good.