On clicks and off clicks

[Facemask93]

Can somebody tell me the best way to avoid the noise that you get when you switch on and off whilst recording with the onboard mike , is there a way to fade in and outFacemask93

[Oldrottenhead]

what i tend to do, is after recording my vocals with onboard mic, i keep a note of where i start singing and end, rewind to beginning turn input to guitar and record silence up to i start singing, occassionally you might get clicks during a prformance especially if you are holding mbr in your hand, and especially if its a loud or emotional part, i tend to tighten my grip and its oops bugger click, lets redo that. if click happens with enough space between to parts record over it. or import track into a daw, and edit it there.

[launched]

Hmm... ORH, I got some education here. To erase I used to do Utility|Trk|ERS and then delete the crust by measure or by time. Recording over with the mic off would be much faster and really appeal to efficient (Ur..Lazy!) people like me.

I agree that to get any more precise would require some DAW processing, but that would play against my Magical Silver Brick Only (M.S.B.O.) policy! 

Later,

Mark

[Kody]

Audacity is a free audio software....It only takes a second to edit stuff like that w/ it...

[Ted]

Hmm... ORH, I got some education here. To erase I used to do Utility|Trk|ERS and then delete the crust by measure or by time. Recording over with the mic off would be much faster and really appeal to efficient (Ur..Lazy!) people like me.

Interesting that you would find that easier than erasing.  I always erase the measures where there is unwanted noise.  I find I can be very precise--up to a fraction of a beat.  I almost always use my Drum Arrangement Worksheet.  I could see the appeal of just recording over the noise, because you'd have to stop and figure out which measures.  But with the worksheet, I know in advance which measures of a noisy track can be erased.

[launched]

I actually do use your worksheet, Ted - Also, in the white spaces between the pattern description I write V1, V2, Chorus, Bridge broken up by "//" marks so I know where I am headed next. I appreciate this contribution - works great for me.

Haven't actually tried mute record-over yet (Have always used erase and the other track tools), just thought it might save time with vocals. I've made a point not to get into DAW with this thing - It makes my recordings suffer because it's hard to "See into".

Later,

Mark

[Facemask93]

Well thanks ted for the advice , but never having added a drum track ever your sheet was like trying to read latin , and what is a daw !


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[Tony]

I've seen the latin version of Ted's drumsheet and it's just the same really, but in, er..., latin. There greek version, however, is a nightmare.  Sorry, Ted, but you have to work on your greek.  A DAW is a digital audio workstation, something you might have on your computer for audio editing (Audacity is a favourite because it's free and fairly straightforward but there are many).  There are tutorials for adding drum tracks in the archives here and pp.82-90 of the manual give you the lowdown on how to do it as well.

[Greeny]

I just switch back to 'GTR' on the input and record over the clicks. I also use this to get rid of unwanted mic noise at the beginning of the track. It's a bit fiddly sometimes, but it works!

[Ted]

Sorry, Ted, but you have to work on your greek.

Better?