NIOA VS-880 TIP 200-0003:

Seamless Editing

The majority of sessions I do are relatively low budget, and most bands prefer to use my VS-880 w/ CD burner for mastering; rather than spend $150/hr at a professional mastering house. One problem I encountered early on was with trying to do a seamless edit. Because of the default fade time, (to prevent clicks when going in to and out of recording) all edits will have a short bit of silence between them. I have found a way around this:

I mix a song to DAT and then bounce it back in to tracks 1 & 2 of my VS-880. Be sure the crossfade time is set to 10ms. Now, suppose chorus number 2 repeats too many times and I want to remove one repeat. I find my first edit point, (usually a kick or a snare) AND ADD 44 SUBFRAMES!! (4 clicks of the jog/shuttle wheel when in subframe mode) Copy from beginning of song to first edit point + 44 subframes to tracks 3 & 4. Next, I find my second edit point. (kick or snare or whatever corresponds to first edit point) Copy from that point to end of song to tracks 5 & 6 making sure beginning of snare or whatever on 3 & 4 lines up with beginning of snare or whatever on 5 & 6. What you end up with is a slight overlap of sound (44 subrames worth), which, because of the 10ms fade-out on 3 & 4 and the 10ms fade-in on 5 & 6 causes a crossfade to happen, resulting in a seamless edit.

Paul Moody PSM@dolby.com

2/18/98

1998/03


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