Using stretch markers in Reaper to fix bad drum timing issues

[PorterhouseMusic]

Amazing.

The coolest thing about this is that you can correct bad timing issues surgically and without screwing up the feel.

You can manually quantize - and do it exactly to your liking. F'n bitchen.

I didn't know. Until I knew. Which was today.

 

[DM60]

That is one of those "improvements" for live players that just make modern recording so much a pleasure.

 

[DrewPeterson7]

I've always done this stuff (mostly on bass guitar) manually snipping and sliding, slip-editing... I should give this a shot.

 

[PorterhouseMusic]

I've always done this stuff (mostly on bass guitar) manually snipping and sliding, slip-editing... I should give this a shot.

I'm now actively using both. Combing the split-slide/slip editing with stretch markers where appropriate. Loving this power to fix errors in feel and timing.

 

[DrewPeterson7]

I'm now actively using both. Combing the split-slide/slip editing with stretch markers where appropriate. Loving this power to fix errors in feel and timing.

I'd really better experiment with stretch markers, then!

Semi-apropos, I'm just getting over a nasty head cold, and tried doing some bass tracking for this project I've been working through over the weekend, and being that fuzzy-headed was REALLY messing with my sense of groove. I had no idea. One of the two songs I ultimately got a pretty clean performance when I started to feel a little better yesterday afternoon, but the other I need to re-listen to and I may want to go back and re-record at least sections of it where the bass will be a little more prominent, in a section with a very behind-the-beat slinkiness to it that was an absolute bitch when my ability to feel the beat seemed to be a little dull.

 

[Eric V]

Thank you @PorterhouseMusic for this thread. I looked up Kenny Goia's YT video on the subject. This is a game-changer.

 

[PorterhouseMusic]

Thank you @PorterhouseMusic for this thread. I looked up Kenny Goia's YT video on the subject. This is a game-changer.

You know - thanks for mentioning it - because it just occurred to me that I probably should have shard that video. And another drum editing (quantizing) video that he put together using a method without stretch markers.

So - if you include the most common method of drum/instrument editing which is the "split/slide" method with these next two - there's at least three methods to "clean things up" - if needed.

 

[jtees4]

I use stretch markers often in my own songs, on instruments and drums and often singing too. Used sparingly it is really great, saves me lot's of fixing or re-recording something.

 

[pipelineaudio]

I find for drums that Elastique Efficient, in balanced mode usually works best to keep out the artefacts

Also, keep these guys very handy!