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ukelele_al
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What is it and how do I do it?
Dom Franco
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To punch in, you must have a multi-track recorder of some kind. While a song is playing back, you "PUNCH IN TO RECORD". on one track. Since the rest of the tracks are unaffected, they keep playing, and you now play along with them in sync. Press stop or punch out of "RECORD" by pressing play.
This enables you to fix mistakes on one part of the song, without re-recording all the parts over again.
Dom Franco
This enables you to fix mistakes on one part of the song, without re-recording all the parts over again.
Dom Franco
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The Green Hornet
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Yo Dom Franco:
Thanks for the clear explanation of PUNCH/in and out. I knew it was something like that but you cleared up a cloudy spot; use another track to make the correction.
Thanks,
Green Hornet
PS What do you know about the Yamaha MD-8
The Manual is a VACUUM. bmocini@davenport.edu
Thanks for the clear explanation of PUNCH/in and out. I knew it was something like that but you cleared up a cloudy spot; use another track to make the correction.
Thanks,
Green Hornet
PS What do you know about the Yamaha MD-8
The Manual is a VACUUM. bmocini@davenport.edu
Slackmaster2K
Gone
Wait a sec. I might be totally wrong here because I haven't been doing this long, but the process of 'punching in' is used to "fix" a track ON THE TRACK itself. Recording on a seperate track is not punching in.
On my old four track what I'd due is play along with the track that needed fixing. As soon as the "bad spot" would come up, I'd punch in on that track, and then punch out at the end of the bad spot. Thereby destructivly editing the original track.
With multitracking software the process is similar but more precise.
Recording a "fix" on another track is simply....recording another track, and would actually be harder to work with because you'd have to precisely silence the bad section on the original track, and make sure that the new track had precisly the same level and effects.
Slackmaster 2000
On my old four track what I'd due is play along with the track that needed fixing. As soon as the "bad spot" would come up, I'd punch in on that track, and then punch out at the end of the bad spot. Thereby destructivly editing the original track.
With multitracking software the process is similar but more precise.
Recording a "fix" on another track is simply....recording another track, and would actually be harder to work with because you'd have to precisely silence the bad section on the original track, and make sure that the new track had precisly the same level and effects.
Slackmaster 2000
drstawl
Banned
And as an added bonus- there is no need to disturb a track when using a multitrack program on a PC until you've created the new punch-in zone on another track and merged the relevant parts of each onto a third track.
Totally non-destructive editing.
With a Portastudio, punch-in may end up as
"out of the frying pan, into the fire"
with no trail of crumbs to find your way back to grandma's house.
Totally non-destructive editing.
With a Portastudio, punch-in may end up as
"out of the frying pan, into the fire"
with no trail of crumbs to find your way back to grandma's house.
Dom Franco
New member
Let me clear this up a bit. I was talking about "Fixing" a track...by punching in over the bad parts. I use the auto punch in feature, which allows me to pick precisley where to punch in and out.
I have also used two or more tracks and sub-mixed the best of each track down to a third track. This is useful when you have a guest musician/vocalist in the studio, and you want to get the most out of the time that they are there. Later on "Off the clock" you can audition each track, and pick the best parts...(Verse, chorus, bridge etc.) to use as the final take. I believe this is called "Comping tracks" and is often used by the big guys as a way to save time and money.
Of course you have to have enough empty tracks to do this. However, THIS IS NOT CALLED PUNCHING IN.
Sincerely;
Dom Franco
I have also used two or more tracks and sub-mixed the best of each track down to a third track. This is useful when you have a guest musician/vocalist in the studio, and you want to get the most out of the time that they are there. Later on "Off the clock" you can audition each track, and pick the best parts...(Verse, chorus, bridge etc.) to use as the final take. I believe this is called "Comping tracks" and is often used by the big guys as a way to save time and money.
Of course you have to have enough empty tracks to do this. However, THIS IS NOT CALLED PUNCHING IN.
Sincerely;
Dom Franco