How would you add scratches over a beat?

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Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

By Lampdog Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:10 pm
I've know people that have actually done that with lyrics and scratches before. It just seems weird to me to handle it that way but to each their own ya dig. Me, because I have the gear to do it, I'll go live right into a mutlitrack with the vocals or turntables IF I had some tt's.

Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

Bymember_5949kfk50e0d3 Sun Sep 18, 2011 5:35 pm
I use audacity, and yes, there is a noticable delay between the new track and the original recording.

normally I run the beat through my mixer on the right chanel, and the scratching through the left so in audacity I can line up the stereo track with the original then delete the right side and make the scratching mono.
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Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

By tapedeck Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:15 pm
Lampdog wrote:
mr_debauch wrote:Audacity is two track I think, though in the options it asks how many tracks you want (up to 16) but I have never tried recording more than 2 at once.

I never knew that either.. :oops:

to clarify, audacity is more like unlimited tracks. everytime you hit the record button, it will add a new track.

the options you refer to debauch are for recording only and it's so you can access all inputs on your soundcard - it's not very good at this (in that you can't choose which inputs).

however, for what the op wants, audacity (free, open) should be perfect...record your scratch track then use the shift tool to align (can be done with one sample precision, but that's overkill)
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Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

By mr_debauch Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:36 pm
tapedeck wrote:
Lampdog wrote:
mr_debauch wrote:Audacity is two track I think, though in the options it asks how many tracks you want (up to 16) but I have never tried recording more than 2 at once.

I never knew that either.. :oops:

to clarify, audacity is more like unlimited tracks. everytime you hit the record button, it will add a new track.

the options you refer to debauch are for recording only and it's so you can access all inputs on your soundcard - it's not very good at this (in that you can't choose which inputs).

however, for what the op wants, audacity (free, open) should be perfect...record your scratch track then use the shift tool to align (can be done with one sample precision, but that's overkill)



oh on mine though I only have used audacity for stereo recording I was able to pick which inputs I wanted to use (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc) I dont think you can record 8 at once though... on second thought
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Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

By tapedeck Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:45 pm
mr_debauch wrote:oh on mine though I only have used audacity for stereo recording I was able to pick which inputs I wanted to use (1-2, 3-4, 5-6, etc) I dont think you can record 8 at once though... on second thought

try it again...last time i did it you could choose how many inputs you wanted, and it would record all of them whenever you hit record. if you chose 10 inputs, it would record 10 tracks mapped to each input each time you hit record. i did not find a way to choose which inputs to record...i could only get it to record all at once (at which point i moved to reaper for multi-track tracking IN...i still prefer audacity as editor and anything where i only need to record at most a stereo track in).

this is on beta 1.3.
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Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

By Lampdog Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:46 pm
mr_debauch wrote:I dont think you can record 8 at once though... on second thought

I've never known audacity to be a multitrack-multichannel daw, ie. sony vegas, adobe audition, logic, acid.....

You had me second guessing myself for a sec, like, did I really overlook that in audacity?!?

Audacity for me would be like using sound forge (love sound forge), a 2 channel editor, left+right.
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Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

By tapedeck Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:54 pm
Lampdog wrote:
mr_debauch wrote:I dont think you can record 8 at once though... on second thought

I've never known audacity to be a multitrack-multichannel daw, ie. sony vegas, adobe audition, logic, acid.....

You had me second guessing myself for a sec, like, did I really overlook that in audacity?!?

Audacity for me would be like using sound forge (love sound forge), a 2 channel editor, left+right.

look again.
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its basic but it works solidly and you get the benefit of a great editor in your multi-track view and independent volume fades.

(there are another 8 tracks like those 1st two i just left them shrunk down)
(also those 10 tracks were recording simultaneously)

Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

By Clint Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:06 pm
Lampdog wrote:AWESOME, I didn't even realize, lol. :oops:


You are not alone.

Thanks for the info here fellas.
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Re: How would you add scratches over a beat?

By mr_debauch Mon Sep 19, 2011 11:53 pm
this is interesting, I didn't consider this as you guys probably were on the same boat... cases where you need to do 6 tracks at once would simply (by first instinct) be done on cubase or what ever else you usually use.



On a side note, I like the mention of these (open source maybe?, not sure of the exact license) standardly free DAW like programs... audacity, kristal, etc... maybe a nice list of these in it's own thread in the DAW department would be a good idea. Possibly some users could post up a bit of a review... also ones that work with linux might be fun.
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