Now see, this is what I'm talking about. I think that article about "trim" is one of the ones I saw too. What he's saying is if the tracks were recorded properly ie low enough in the first place, then there's no need for trimming. The trim is a plugin which is basically a correction tool to be used to fix a track.

I'm beginning to think on a highly technical level and this only applies to modern digital recording, every time something like this is done to the track, digital resampling or other manipulation is going on and that degrades the result however slight that may be. I'm not sure but I think it's something like that. Destructive editing, applying plugins etc all involve either resampling, dithering, etc and that introduces digital artifacts and like anything else to do with audio, the less of that the better because all of that is cumulative when mixing. One or two tracks out of 10 or 15 no problem but if it's all of them it might be. I also believe in most cases it's inaudible to anybody except a 16 year old with perfect hearing and his dog so for us who cares anyway.

Bob

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