Full Description
Whether you're comping a vocal track, restoring an old recording, working with dialogue or sound effects for film, or imposing your own vision with mash-ups or remixes, audio editing is a key skill to successful sound production. Digital Audio Editing gives you the techniques, from the simplest corrective editing like cutting, copying, and pasting to more complex creative editing, such as beat mapping and time-stretching. You'll be able to avoid unnatural-sounding pitch correction and understand the potential pitfalls you face when restoring classic tracks. Author Simon Langford invites you to see editing with his wide-angle view, putting this skill into a broad context that will inform your choices even as you more skillfully manipulate sound. Focusing on techniques applicable to any digital audio workstation, it includes break-outs giving specific keystrokes and instruction in Avids Pro Tools, Apple's Logic Pro, Steinberg's Cubase, and PreSonus's Studio One. The companion websites includes tutorials in all four software packages to help you immediately apply the broad skills from the book.
Contents
What exactly is audio editing?
Chapter One: Audio Editing 101
Chapter Two: The Different Aims Of Audio Editing
Section One: Corrective Editing
Chapter Three: Cutting, Copying, Pasting and Moving
Chapter Four: Fades and Crossfades
Chapter Five: Level Control
Chapter Six: Tonal Matching
Chapter Seven: Comping and Alternate Takes
Chapter Eight: Multi-track Comping
Chapter Nine: Transient Detection
Section Two: Creative Editing
Chapter Ten: Beat-mapping and Recycling
Chapter Eleven: Drum Replacement
Chapter Twelve: Time-stretching
Chapter Thirteen: Elastic Audio (Time)
Chapter Fourteen: Pitch Shifting
-Section Three: Restorative Editing
Chapter Fifteen: Editing In The Third Dimension
Chapter Sixteen: Spectral Editing
Chapter Seventeen: Applications of Audio Restoration
Chapter Eighteen: Demixing
Chapter Nineteen: Thinking Outside The Box
