Open Mic: Tell Us About Your Favorite Audio Editing Techniques

Open Mic: Tell Us About Your Favorite Audio Editing Techniques

on Nov 11th 2012 with 6 comments
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the Editing Audio: The Complete Guide Session
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Modern DAWs give you a huge amount of control and flexibility when editing audio. You can chop it up and move it around, delete noises, comp the best parts, and even adjust timing. Editing can be long and arduous, but makes a huge difference. What are your favorite audio editing techniques? Let us know in the comments!

 
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  • http://twitter.com/josephsacco Joe Sacco

    the delete key

  • Dan

    I love audio editing, it’s the main reason why i do a lot of remix comps (that and its good practice when you don’t have an initial idea). so i love all the little edits that you can do especially on a recorded music sample eg. acoustic guitar. chop it up and rearrange to create a new loop then do more edits to create variation on the loop some times even re pitch it a bit, reversing it.

    I really like taking a vocal sample and chopping out the extended vow sounds and creating a melody out of rearrange, re-pitch and revering the samples.

  • Enock

    Loigc’s Flex tool….that is all

  • http://twitter.com/TyRiqueMusic Taarique Debidin

    Vocal editing, by far! I love being able to equalize vocals, compress them, cut them up when needed… It’s really one of my favorite parts when working on a new song :D

  • http://twitter.com/aceSpec Brandon Wells

    I love comping. It give me the freedom to build a phases together; grab peices of emotion, clarity, etc.. etc. As basic as it sounds, fades are very nice. I was editing some flute tracks the other day. I did a curved fade in and got this emotion of the artificial crescendo.

  • http://twitter.com/MusicalCS Christian Stranne

    I love using key inputs to gate long tones from vocals, piano, synth, etc. to create a tight lock with the drums and sometimes create interesting rhythms that I don’t typically use!