Recording tips and tricks submitted by LauberLand Studios.

Recording Tips and Tricks

Submitted by Dave Lauber

Web Site URL: www.lauberland.com
Country: United States
Business Phone: 1 866 200 3235
Name of Recording Studio: LauberLand Studios
Studio Location: 677Stallings Ave.Deltona, FL 32738

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Sonar (Cakewalk) has a uniquefeature that you might be interested in if you are looking for that perfectkick drum sound. After you record your kick drum, rather than spending endlesshours trying to get it to sound like your client wants it to sound, you cansimply use the "peaks" of the audio recording to make a midi trigger file andoffer the client his/her choice of kick drum sounds from your arsenal!Simply select the kick track and go to "Process, audio, extract timing". Setthe trigger level to AROUND 30dB.

Choose below whether you want to keep the volume (velocity) of the originalrecording, or set the hits to all be the same in volume.Now click "audition" and see if all of your beats are showing up.Next, open a new midi track and load your favorite midi drum arsenal. I preferto use Native instruments Battery. (I have saved a preset file with nothingbut tons of different kick drum samples.)

Figure out which keyboard note (midi note) you want that corresponds to thekick sound you are looking for (D3, D#2, etc...).A midi controller can help with this part.Select "convert each pulse to Midi note" and enter the correct midi note.Hit OK and the midi data will be saved to your pc's clipboard automatically.Now simply paste the data into the new midi track and make sure the track'soutput is set to play the sound from "Battery" or whatever you use.DONE!

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You now have a midi track that triggers midi kick sounds using the same timingand velocity from the original analog recording.You can use it to mix in with your original kick recording, or replace youroriginal kick sound with the new one!This can be used with any suitable audio track, like snare drum and bassrecordings as well!Contact Dave [AT] LauberLand.com if you have questions about this procedure and stopwasting valuable time with expensive mics, drum heads and triggers!

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