Post your vegas tricks....

Arnar wrote on 8/15/2002, 8:13 AM
These tricks can be mixing tricks or just production trick or whatever.

here´s one that might be obvious..

For drum rolls and other uses (glitches) trim a sample to ,say, 32nd notes /open copy/ close Sf /back to vegas / drag out the sample and you have a roll !

If using one hits (single samples) for drum kits then open the media pool and replace samples with whatever and see what happens...works every time (great for cut up drumloops.

Here´s a nice one....play selected parts of your composition at half speed /record that and put it under the mix maybe using a hi-pass filter (works great for pads and such) obviously you could do this by dropping the pitch by -12 on a selected sample but this has more interesting results as you can solo a few track for this purpose and its faster.

As we dont have automated plugins for Vegas i often solo a few parts and just mess with a plugin (say a filter) on a buss while recording it back into Vegas.

For some groove while doing drum patterns i very often make a few copies a say a hi-hat and move the snap offest randomly by a few milliseconds and then use that as the sounds and they will not be nailed on the grid.

This one reminded me of a request i would like to make ....how about groove qauntising thats based on the snap (offset) ...something basic would do as beats tend to be a bit stiff when using the grid.
this could be complimented with quantise copying to other parts in the mix....i would certainly love a feature like that.

cant think of anything else at the moment :)

Cheers
Arnar




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Arnar wrote on 9/10/2002, 5:34 AM
Yeah ...well.

Not much of a response to this topic so ill respond to it myself.

A neat trick when choosing snares (for example) is to right click on a selection of snares and drag them into the project and then you get a dialog where you can add the selection of say, 20 files as TAKES and then you can use the T shortcut to jump between them .

I use this function a lot for all kinds of purposes.
jues wrote on 9/10/2002, 9:22 AM
Ok, a small tip:

When working with Double Tracked vocals (panned xx% left and right (i tend to use 40%) the singer may cause "difficulties" by ending long notes at differring times - in order to rectify this problem (because it's very noticable in headphones) I will edit the shorter of the two takes by splicing it towards the end of the note and then again after the note. This chunk can then be aligned with the other so they end and the same time (and any "Ess's, etc are lined up). I then grab the Left Hand Side of this new "end section" and drag it out so that it removes the gap you created when moving it and so it creates an overlap with the remaing audio on the Left Hand Side. This overlap should be as quite long to make the transision smooth as possible.

This technique also works well with Bass notes where the player has not held a note for long enough.

(sorry, that wasn't the best explanation ;)