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Enhancing Choral Audio Recordings in Sonar X3

This assignment outlines the process of improving choral audio recordings made with online MP3s using Sonar X3. It highlights the challenges posed by conductor interruptions during practice tracks and provides a step-by-step guide for identifying and replacing corrupted audio segments. Key techniques include aligning clips with timing tools, using crossfades for smooth transitions, and correcting audio quality issues to enhance the overall listening experience. The process not only aids vocalists but also hones essential skills in digital audio workstations (DAWs).

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Enhancing Choral Audio Recordings in Sonar X3

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  1. Assignment #2DAW Completed by Conrad P Koch Jr 10 February 2014

  2. Objective “Efficiently create a compile from multiple audio recordings in your DAW”

  3. Background • Choral Groups Practice With Online Mp3s • Helps Members To Learn Music • Tracks Often Are Less Than Ideal • Listen To This Clip Segment • Conductor Stops And Talks • Not Useful For Practice • Let’s Improve it

  4. Step 1 This is the region corrupted with the Conductor’s Talking Find Corrupted Region

  5. Step 2 • Find Audio with Good or Useful Region • Listen to it • Bring it into your DAW Listen Here click icon to listen Good Clip Bad Clip

  6. Step 3 • Align Timing Of Clip Being Edited • At Point of Corruption in Clip Being Edited • Use A “Snap To Beat” • Smart Grid in Sonar X3 • Otherwise Use Time Markers • Precision is Key Good Clip Bad Clip Point of Corruption

  7. Step 4 • Highlight All Corrupted Audio In The Corrupt Clip • Delete It • Two Good Regions Exist in the “Corrupt clip • Align “Good” Regions of “Corrupt” Clip With The Good Clip’s Audio • Use Time Snap or “Smart Grid” Good Clip Corrupt Clip Good Regions of “Bad” Clip

  8. Step 5 • Copy Replacement Region from the Good Clip • Paste It Into Region Deleted From The Corrupt Clip

  9. Step 6 • Perfect the Clip click icon to listen • This one isn’t • Use Crossfade at Transitions • Correct Spectrum to Improve Timbre • Remove “Tin Can” Sound • Vocals Sound like They Were Recorded in a Barrel • Improve Synchronization During Transitions

  10. Reflections • Spent The Week Examining Daws • Hence Late Start On This Assignment • Not Happy With Audacity Or AVS4U Products • Easy To Use But Technologically Constrained • Bought Sonar X3 Studio • An Awful Lot To Learn … I’m Barely 1% Up The Learning Curve • Music Production Jargon Is Strange • FX =Effects (Who’d A Guessed???) • Found A Couple Of Useful Glossaries Here’s One Http://Www.Recordingconnection.Com/Glossary/M/ • This Course’s Student Forum Very Very Helpful • For Those In The Forum Who May Suggest Otherwise • No … I Am Not A Retired Lawyer • I’m A Vocalist • Melodyne “Rocks”

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