If you catch your error while live recording…
Step One:
– If you bugger a mix up, pause recording on Audacity
– rewind your deck to about 30 seconds before your mix point
– unpause Audacity, record a few seconds of silence, then restart your deck
– continue with your mix
Step Two:
– when done recording, find the blank space you inserted after the bad mix
– find a spot before mix starts that has a distinct looking waveform
– delete everything after that spot through to the blank space
– now go into your second attempt at the mix, find that distinct part of the waveform
– zoom in a lot, pick a point that you can see on both waveforms
– cut each one at that point, delete all the part in the middle, stick the two sides of the blank together and give it a listen
First few times will seem like a huge pain, but once you get the hang of it you’ll be able to splice things in and out pretty quickly. I used to have to do this a lot to shorten mixes down for the radio (pull out an extra verse here and there). Remember to save your project before you start with the slicing & dicing in case it doesn’t go well, and again after you are happy with it.
Hope that all made sense. Good luck!
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