Preparing Drum Tracks for Mixing in REAPER - with Bonus Live Drum Edit!

It's not uncommon when downloading mulitracks from online training courses to have drum tracks that have already been edited, with portions of unwanted or difficult to control bleed removed. While you can still learn a lot by mixing multitracks that have already been edited, in my opinion, it simply does not prepare to work with tracks recorded by mere mortals such as ourselves ;) In this episode, we'll look at preparing acoustic drum tracks for editing and mixing. As an added bonus, after the prep lesson, we'll quickly edit the drums for better timing!

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00:00 - Intro
01:10 - Cleaning Up the Tom Tracks - Lesson Start
02:15 - Ungated Tom Tracks
02:49 - Tom Tracks with ReaGate?
03:21 - Cleaning Up the Tom Tracks
03:42 - Action: Auto Remove Silence
05:42 - Testing with Clean Tom Tracks
06:28 - What About That Unused Third Tom?
07:10 - Creating Project Length Tracks from Clean Toms
08:04 - Bonus Content - Improptu Drum Editing Primer
08:31 - Using Aggregate Waveform for Phase Alignment
08:53 - Basic Slip Editing
09:21 - Overheads versus Snare Transient
09:54 - Room Mics versus Snare Transient?
10:24 - Grouping the Drum Tracks
10:45 - Let's Start Editing
11:21 - Drum Editing in REAPER Promo
12:10 - Back to Editing
17:05 - No Talking for a Bit
18:33 - The Last Few Edits
19:18 - Drum Editing Complete - Let's Listen
20:19 - Closing Thoughts

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