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Identifying bad drum edits

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Identifying bad drum edits

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- [Instructor] I've recreated some common drum edit mistakes that I encounter a lot when I'm mixing songs that I didn't track. Maybe an engineer's rushed or forgets to go back and fine-tune some of these edits. But I end up having to fix all sorts of problems like this quite often. So here we go, I'm going to dive in and show you a few of my favorite bad examples of drum editing, and mostly I'm doing this just to show you which ones really matter and which don't, but I'm also going to show you ones that can be avoided. So here's one I find all the time. Surprise tom ring, is what I call this one. Take a listen. (percussion) That's pretty subtle, but you hear right where the edit is. You hear that four tom come out of nowhere. (percussion) Now obviously, we could fix this by just deleting the track there or muting it in that section. (percussion) And that works pretty good. But if you start compressing this track more or bing in more room mics, you're going to hear a little bit of a…

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