ABSTRACT
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 Avid’s 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |4 pages
Introduction
chapter |10 pages
Audio Editing 101
chapter |7 pages
Different Aims of Audio Editing
part |128 pages
Corrective Editing
chapter |22 pages
Cutting, Copying, Pasting, and Moving
chapter |21 pages
Fades and Cross-Fades
chapter |16 pages
Level Control
chapter |3 pages
Tonal Matching
chapter |23 pages
Comping and Alternate Takes
chapter |20 pages
Multi-Track Comping
chapter |18 pages
Transient Detection
part |112 pages
Creative Editing
chapter |23 pages
Beat-Mapping and Recycling
chapter |18 pages
Drum Replacement
chapter |24 pages
Time-Stretching
chapter |19 pages
Elastic Audio (Time)
chapter |24 pages
Pitch-Shifting
part |54 pages
Restorative Editing