Part 2: How To Correct a Full Drum Kit with Beat Detective in ProTools LE

Get the full notes here: http://www.stephenshapiro.info/2009/03/beat-detective/

The song is an unreleased track by Alexander (http://www.myspace.com/alexander)

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZJKdM8bE8

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Pro Tools
• ProTools
• Digidesign
• Beat Detective
• Rhythm Correction
• Drums
• Drum Set
• Drum Kit

[dogeatsock]

I I am editing a pop song, and numerous times in my song I have a crash hit with the beat coming in right after. There are timing issues in the kick, snare and highhat tracks immediately following this crash hit. How do I fix these timings in the kick, snare and highhat without altering the sound of that residual crash hit? When I do beat detective on all the tracks, that residual crash hit has a ton of little cross fades in it and sounds strange. How do you get around this??

[randomgong]

@dogeatsock I don't quite understand the situation - probably one of those "you have to see/hear it" things I suppose. But from my understanding, what I would do is just edit it with beat detective or by hand, and then add a sampled crash on top of what's already there to make the "real" crash / crash bleed sound smoother.

[alshick68]

Great tutorial!!! Just curious, wouldn't it be easier to listen back for any mistakes before you edit smoothing?

[randomgong]

@alshick68 Maybe. It doesn't make a big difference either way :) Thanks for watching.

[drmrfk16]

I was just wondering, if you have the time I'd really appreciate the help...

When I'm editing my drums after I've made everything conform to the grid.. i get the pinwheel for like 30 sec after every little region stretch i make. I got my hw buffer size pretty high and i have a lot of room on my drive. When i'm just editing the kick/snare track its not nearly as long as when I'm editing all the drums. Any ideas?

[randomgong]

@drmrfk16 Are you stretching it with TCE or are you just trimming the regions?

[MartinEugeneHarp]

@soundmachinevids Because you're awesome. I can edit an entire drum track by hand in PT in less time than it took to play the first half of this. Am I awesome too, please? It's a tutorial. It is going to take longer to get through because he's trying to explain what to do, how to do it and what the each option does. I'm sure if you made a "How to correct a Full Drum Kit in Reaper" it would be a 1 min. video but Stephen did his with the user in mind that is probably following along in PT.

[askerp2007]

great tutorial men, you explain things very well, keep up the videos

[romakid]

Great tutorial. Just what I needed. Thanks.

[Ashsdrumming]

I have a question maybe someone can help :D

If you want to mix live drums with programmed midi, do you think it's best to record the drums first then add the midi or the other way around- i.e play along to the programmed midi? Thanks...

[soundmachinevids]

I can edit an entire drum track by hand in REAPER in less time than it took to play this entire tutorial, including all tom hits and cymbal hits.

[drmrfk16]

@rockjpk i dont think they'd be perfect with the drums but def unnoticable, as long as the tempo that the instruments were recorded too didnt change, just the drums.

[rockjpk]

Thanx for the great tutorial!! i just have one question,if you use beat detective on the drums wont the other instruments get out of beat,if you have recorded an entire band?