I appreciate the help and swift reply

Bouncing is simply the process of combining all of your tracks, incorporating edits and mix settings into a single stereo file. You accomplish it with your digital audio workstation software (like Pro Tools or Logic). When you send the stereo mix out to another device like 2-track tape or a hard disk recorder, it’s usually called “mixing” and has to happen in real time because there is one device creating the mix and a second receiving and “printing” it to a different medium. Bouncing can happen faster than it would take to do it live, depending on the speed of your computer and the complexity of the project (numbers of plugins utilized in the mix, primarily).

Damon
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Apologies for the noob question but can someone explain stereo bouncing to me please?

Is it something that you can do live or does it have to be done with editing equipment…if so, what kinda thing would I need.

Thanks for any help.

I would remember this no matter what you are tracking. Its good for EVERYTHING. If you have the option to edit before, at, or after a transition, chances are you will find a spot that works. If you don’t leave yourself that wiggle-room, you can get into some sticky editing situaitons.

C
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I have to do the edit between a few parts. One part, the last thing I hit was the snare and open hi hat. The hi hat decay needs to bleed into the next part. The other parts are similar situations.

I’ll experiment with different crossfades first. They don’t sound awful right now, but it’s noticeable that there is an edit. If I ever considered myself good at something in recording, it was editing. I’ll figure something out. You’ve helped plenty and I should be able to make it work from here.

I’m laying down another drum track today, and if I have to split it, I’ll make sure to play through.

Thanks.

Assuming you played to a click track, and assuming the parts are somewhat similar, this should be solvable somehow. You should just be able to highlight what you want from section “A”, and drag it over to section “B”. What sounds unnatural about your edits? Sometimes just dragging the edges to the left/right a little bit can help a lot (see my note at the bottom, but if you can, send me some stereo bounces of a problem track. I can probably help more once I hear it).

If you are going to record things in sections like that, I would recommend always playing “a little extra”. For example, if you just want to re-record verse 1 of your song, record it, but play a few bars into the refrain. That way, when you edit them together, there will be some leeway as to where the edit point is. You have to keep a close ear out for the decay of drums (and cymbals especially). Those will be the most noticeable “glitches” on edits. If you get really stuck, you can cut off certain pieces and automate some reverb sends and mutes…. but that gets tricky.

You might want to send me some audio files of what you are doing (even just a stereo bounce of the parts running into each other). Situations like these are very specific to the material that is being recorded.

For the few instances where we need stuff like this, I guess we will just have to work with the “workarounds”. But yeah, try out the third option (aka wait until the end and then make new stereo bounces of both sides, and use the 2 stereo tracks to make the overlap).

And I’d be pretty irked if DP got “simultaneous double file play on single track” before Pro Tools got automatic plug-in delay compensation

Is that too much to ask?

Thanks for the ideas Connor. I’ll probably give them a go this weekend.