I'm looking for re-editing tips and tricks.

[DJ_AIR_EYE]

Hi
With disco re-editing gaining huge popularity, I thought I might have a go myself. Nothing too fancy to start. Just extending some intros and instrumental breakdowns or rearranging certain sections etc.
At the moment I own Sony Soundforge and Ableton Live (which I haven't really used yet).
I tried some simple things (using Soundforge) like trying to extend intros but I wasn't 100% happy with the results. It always obvious where I've attempted some manipulation.
Can you guys give me some tips and tricks or are there any good tutorials
online etc?

Thanks in advance.

[needlefingers]

If I remember correctly, Soundforge only allows you to work with one track at a time (I don't know Ableton Live).

Some solutions...

If it's clicks you are hearing, you have to add a very small fade between the two spliced events, both at the end of your first edited wave/event and at the begining of the next edited wave/event. Zoom in real close to make sure that the fade is very short on both. This will avoid clicks and drops in volume.

If it's drops in volume you are hearing, again, zoom in and make the fades shorter.

If you are hearing complete breaks of silence between two edits, make sure you turn off all "quantization"(which really deals with scores/musical notes and MIDI) and all "lock to events" (which will lock waves to nearest beat according to tempo). If you have these on, they will lock your edited wave/event to close to where you want, but not exactly. By turning them off, you can move the events as close together as you need. (Again, if I remember Soundforge, there should be no quantization, as Soundforge deals with only wave edititing. But there could be a "lock to events".)

What will really help is to have a program that offers multiple tracks for editing. This way you can duplicate the tracks you are editing, and cue up your events to play between track 1 and track 2. For example, you want to extend an intro by using an eight-count loop. You have it on track 1; when you get to where you want to add the loop, line it(the loop) up on track 2 right where it ended on track 1. If you want another eight counts, then line it(the loop) up on track 1 right where it ended on track 2. I use multiple tracks for most editing and can have any number of tracks I'm working with for one re-edit of a song.

A cheap multitrack program for Windows would be Sony ACID Music Studio (regular $69.99/on sale $35.00 at BestBuy) You can visit the Sony website and download some trial versions of ACID including ACID Pro. I think they have some video tutorials also. You can also check for digital wave editing tutorials on youtube.com.

There are other multi-track recording/editing programs. ProTools. Cubase. Logic. Garage.

Editing takes practice and I'm sure that others will have their way of doing it.

Hope some of this helps.:icon_smile: