Vocal/Track comping, what's the best way ?

[Rail Jon Rogut]

Hi Cap'n

Using my technique, there are also no problems with anything not being lined up correctly - you're copying and pasting without changing the selection in Pro Tools. You also have a visual display in your comp track of where each phrase came from, because when you copy and paste, the pasted region contains a name based on the region you copied it from.

Rail

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Recording Engineer

[Earjam]

Here Is a completely diferent approach!
Take let say 5 voc trks. Create a new trk inputed from lets say bus 5. Select output bus 5 on all of your voc trks. Go into Prefs, and unlatch solo buttons. Hold command while clicking solo buttons of any trk you don't want to be affected when a solo button is engaged. Select auto Input and enable Record on the comp trk. Remember to eliminate any
plugs that Don't absolutely have to be on you primary voc trks. Now you are ready to comp on the fly. The Record enable trk will receive input from only the trk that is solo'd. Only one trk can be solo'd at a time in this mode, which means one click enables the next trk while disengaging the last. This takes a moment to set up, but for me, there is no quicker smoother more flexible way to audition any combination of trks for your
producer. Not to mention, it creates a brand new region that won't go away if you later decide to delete old voc trk,and audio files to conserve memory. This is a very simular method to the traditional analog style of making records,
but faster. I hope you try it! I think you might like it!
Peace
Earjam

[noize]

I just want to add one other thing to SVP users, After I finish recording and before I start comping, I copy all the takes and paste them into another sequence and name it "RAW TRAKS". Now I know I have a saftey of all my takes and I can go back and reference any original take for timing, name, etc.
This also protects me from "deleting any unused audio" which the sequence would not normally reference! (I sometimes compact audio files soon after the recording in order to save space and to allow the computor to work more freely)
Good luck, hope it helps
noize