Combining Audio Clips

[Southern Prince]

Hello...

I am fairly new to pro tools, but not recording. (Sonar for years) What I would like to do is combine recoded clips together without destroying the previous one. I recorded multiple take of a lead vocal, and would like to combine them on one track, while preserving all overlaps. They are currently on 2 tracks... I have tried dragging the clips up to the desired track, but the overlaps mute the end of the previous clips...

Can anyone assist?

Thanks,
Southern Prince

[Andre Knecht]

The only way to hear the sound of two regions overlapping within a track is to use cross fades. You might want to investigate alternative vocal track “comping” techniques.

The first place I’d check is the sticky thread at the very top of this particular forum on the DUC (the one named “Enuff Q: How about some tips!!!!”). It contains quite a few descriptions of such work-methods.

Also, you could search the archive for some of the relevant terms. I remember a few threads on this topic having popped up in the past.

IHTH.

[Kryst]

Could you perhaps mix it in two tracks, then bounce those two vocal tracks, delete those tracks, then Import the bounced file? I've been doing this trick to sort of "process" my desired Guitar Rig 2 effects on my guitars, mainly because GR2 is a resource hog, so getting rid of it ASAP from my sessions is good.