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And my third track, you’ll hear it say take 1, take 2. So now if I just listen back to my first track you’ll hear it say take 1, take 1, take 1. Or you can copy it by using option and drag it down so that you still have it on the first track and you still have it now on the final track - your comp track. So if I highlight these, and separate just the part that you like using Command-E, then you can drag it down with Shift so that it stays time-aligned. Next I can compile the parts that I like, or take one from the first track and take two from the second track. So I’m going to mute my talk back and record on my first track. And then the one I’m gonna compile, I’m gonna have part 1 as track 1 and then part 2 as track 2. On my track 2, I’m gonna say take 2, take 2, take 2. Just for demonstration purposes, what I’m gonna do is on my first track, I’m gonna say take 1, take 1, take 1. Normally when you would do this, as I said, you’d want the performer to do the same exact part. I use shift-option-click, the ones that are highlighted I want to switch over to the same input. What I want to do is assign these so they all have the same input. So to start out with I’ll just create a couple audio tracks to work with.
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The first way is just to give you some intuition about what’s going on, and finally I’ll get to an efficient and more elegant way to do it with Pro Tools. In order to demonstrate this I’m gonna show you a couple different ways to do it. Then discard the parts that you don’t like and you’re not gonna use them. Then what you can do as the mix engineer, is pick and choose the individual part or aspects or lines that you like, and compile those into a single best performance. In reality, each of these takes is slightly different - there’s going to be parts that are good and parts that are bad.
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The idea is to ask the musician to record multiple takes of the same exact performance.
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For this reason, many mixing engineers and producers will use a technique called vocal comping or compilation. Many times if you’re recording, it’s very difficult and time-consuming to capture the perfect performance in a single take. This is a demonstration of an efficient way to do vocal comping inside of Pro Tools.