Originally Posted By: Guitarhacker
Surgical editing... very fun to do and highly useful.

Zooming in to find the zero crossing point of the wave is sometimes not enough, especially if it's in the middle of a note or sound.... you will still have a very abrupt start or end which is just as bad as a click or pop. You can use an envelope in a case like that to also fade in smoothly but quickly as long as the result sounds natural at some level. If it doesn't sound natural..... UNDO it and try again and keep working until you have it sounding natural, or..... go with plan B. You do have a plan B...right?

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Zooming in gives me what I need 95% of the time. I have a lot of experience doing this with Just a Tascam DP03 digital recorder and editing it with Audacity. I don't have the luxury of an expensive DAWs. Plan B is explained within the previous post. You are working with a copy of the .SEQ file. So you can always start over. Also I explained you can duplicate the track you are working with prior to doing any destructive edits and if it fails copy that track back to your working track.

I have been successful with this technique to eliminate , drums, bass, piano, guitar, vocal mistakes. Its very difficult to drop into a lead vocal track and dub another word or two. The tone changes are sometimes so noticeable you can frustrate yourself. I would rather fix it by track edits when I can. The changes are so small in time that setting an envelope is quite impossible. When a singer turns their head while recording that slight difference in volume can be corrected. Its much faster to edit the waveform than rerecording an entire track.

There is a feature in the zoom window. Play the selected area. I expand the track, pick the part that is the wrong level or one that I want to erase entirely and listen. Then I either reset the gain on that section or ZAP IT all together.

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