Fixes and Cleanups

Chapter 4 included a bunch of information on cleaning up live tracks, and a lot of that applies to cleaning up compilation CDs too. We’ll review the basics here along with explanations of a few other fixes that may come up when you make your compilation discs. We’ll talk about splitting stereo tracks for more precise editing, normalization, adjusting the gaps between songs, and graceful fades. See Chapter 12 to learn more about fix-its and cleanups such as noise removal; dynamic range compression; and fixing clicks, pops, clipping, and other defects. Chapter 11 is all about applying special effects.

Splitting Stereo Tracks for Surgical Repairs

Sometimes there will be a defect on just one channel of a two-channel stereo track. ...

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