 Here in Cakewalk by BandLab I have a guitar track in blue and a vocal track in green. Now unfortunately during the second phrase of this vocal track I sung a wrong lyric. Let's just have a quick listen. It should be was it the way that I stand. Obviously I want to correct that. Now one thing I could do is just record on a second audio track and edit it in. So for example if I show you one I made earlier I've got this second recording here with the correct lyric. I could go in probably select the one that I want to get rid of like so, press delete on my keyboard, drag the new one in there and it's all fixed very nicely. Now that's one way you could do it. It's not the most elegant way and particularly if you want to do multiple takes and then select later which one you want best I probably wouldn't think this is the best way to do it. Another downside to this methodology is if we go back a couple of steps to where I recorded this new vocal I'll still be able to hear the original vocal as I'm singing. That will be quite off-putting okay so I'd probably need to go in beforehand and delete it anyway like so. Okay so as I say if you want to use this method I think it's okay but it's probably not the most elegant method so let's just hide that track like so and look at another method. Now the other method you could use is comping. I've discussed this in other videos and I'll put a link at the top right if you don't know how to do comping but as a quick overview what we do with comping is we record several takes and then select which takes we want later. It does require sort of prior preparation and knowing that you want to do it this way. You'd have to go up to the record button, long press on it and make sure you have comping selected as your recording method and as long as you've done that and you've recorded it to new lanes which we'll look at now by clicking on this little icon then you'll have a number of different takes to choose from. Now assuming that one of those takes has the correct lyric I could just select that area like so down here in the lanes and hey presto it's fixed and I now have my corrected lyric in there. Okay comping is one method as I say as long as you have recorded the correct lyric in this case at some stage. One of the downsides to comping and it may be off-putting for you is the fact that you can't hear the previous takes as you're recording your new take okay so this means that you have to just record this lyric in isolation now we're not always recording vocals of course and wanting to correct just vocals. Sometimes the context is really really important when you just want to insert a new recording okay so another method that you may want to look at is punching in and out. My folks I'm Mike and I hope you're well someone somewhere not only wants skin the cat but they found multiple ways of doing it. Anyway here in Cakewalk by Bandlab there's also multiple ways to solve problems often now we're going to solve that problem that we had there in the intro using the punching method in just a moment however before we get into that I just want to remind you that if you're new to Cakewalk by Bandlab and you haven't even recorded your first song yet you should follow the link in the description down below to my absolute beginner's guide to Cakewalk where I guide you through that process with no fluff in a simplified manner and all in one place. Now there's a coupon code on the screen at the moment which is going to be valid for the next couple of days so you can get a handy discount for that now let's get punching. So before we go ahead and record using punching in and out we need to make sure that we can see the module for punching in and out you may or may not be able to see it at the moment at the top row up here in Cakewalk so if you can't just right click on a blank area where all the modules are go to where it says modules and then go down and select punch and then you'll be able to see this little module here these are our punch in and out options the other thing that I like to do is select the correct recording method okay so I'm going to go to the record button over here long left press on there and that brings up these options it's on comping at the moment which will come back to later but I'm going to suggest one of the most sort of straightforward ways of doing punching in and out is to use the overwrite method this is like the traditional method you would have with tape okay where the old recording is you know gone it's deleted and then the new recording is inserted in its place so it's the most sort of basic method. Now the next thing I like to do is select the area that I want to use my punch in and out method with okay you don't have to do it like this but I think it makes it easier so I'm going to go down to my vocal and I'm going to just wait till my mouse cursor changes to this eye beam and then I'm going to select an area give myself a little space a little bit of space either side of where I want to do the take yeah and then release now that has made a selection in Cakewalk okay and you can see that selection reflected in the ruler at the top there okay that just makes it easier for the next step if we go to the record punch in out module I'm going to click this icon here okay that's going to set the in and out points of our punch in and out according to the current selection not to be confused by the way with an icon which is right next to it here which is exactly the same which is in our sort of loop module here okay just be careful you don't click on the wrong one this is in our punch module I'm going to click on that a few things are going to happen and I'll explain them also I click on it now okay so the first thing that's happened is it's set the in and out points for punching according to that selection you can see the numbers reflect that here indeed if you want to manually change that you can go in and change those numbers there if you want to use that methodology now the other way that you can change this selection is on the ruler we can see now this red these red sort of markers have appeared okay they are now showing the in and out points for our punch we could grab one of them and just sort of drag it around like so or we could just grab the bottom line here wait till our cursor changes to this sort of weird left and right icon with a P and then we can drag the whole punch in and out sort of selection there if we want to okay now another thing that happened when I pressed that icon was we automatically went into the punch mode and this button was switched on so it's going to punch in the next time we record we could switch that off of course if we don't decide to go ahead but of course we're going to punch in and out so I'm going to turn that on okay so because as I say we had overwrite selected here in the recording method what's going to happen as soon as I press record now to record this track you're going to see this disappear it's going to start off by deleting what was originally there and that's handy because it means we're not going to hear that original recording okay I'm going to arm my track for recording over here on the left go to and sort of a few bars before I need to record and I'm going to hit record and re-record that vocal was it the touch of my hand was it the way that I stand too close and you can see that it's just got rid of that old recording and put in my slightly dodgy new recording wasn't that great a performance but I did get the lyric correct okay so that's one thing you may want to do now another thing you may want to do is actually set up a loop so you can do several takes and I probably would want to retake that again okay so what I'm going to do is make a selection again like so just leave myself a little bit of leeway okay and I'm going to go up here to I'm going to set my loop selection up here by clicking on this icon as I just did there similar to the way we did it in the punch in and out okay now it's set up a loop and it's going to go around around there and it's going to re-record that okay so that's one method I could do until I've got a take that I'm happy with okay now this leads me into my sort of next topic because you can combine this with comping okay so if we go up to our record method like so and click on comping what's going to happen now is we've got that loop set up we can you know re-record this as many times as we want but we can keep each take okay it's not just going to simply overwrite each take but if we do make sure that we delete the section yeah that we're going to be re-recording before we start comping that will ensure that we can't hear it each time so I've just going to select this clip here and press on my delete key on the keyboard I could have selected arrange and done the same thing so what's going to happen now and I'm going to demonstrate this to you by recording three different takes is we can record those three takes and get the best of them later so bear with me my voice is a bit croaky today these might not sound all that great but I'll try my best let's hang in there and do three takes was it the touch of my hand was it the way that I stand too close was it really was bad huh was it the touch of my hand was it the way that I stand too close was it the touch of my hand was it the way that I stand too close okay let's stop there we could do as many takes as we want now the last take that I did there is the one which is showing okay that's the the last take but I don't have to stick with that one because I set this to comp mode up here yeah with that record button now when I click on the lanes track down on the lanes icon down here to show the lanes yeah then I can see those other three takes which I just recorded there okay so I can now go ahead and do as I demonstrated earlier and just select one of those and that will be the take which is actually played in the comp now apart from being able to punch in and out when you're recording I really do think it's useful for you to fully understand comping in cakewalk by bandlab I didn't go into too much detail about it here so if you want to know all about it just click on this thumbnail right here