Forum Activity for @peterowen

Jafunk Member Livestream - Pro Mixing Techniques & QnA

Livestreams

I'm looking forward to the livestream tomorrow and will no doubt be interested by all of it but would appreciate a few tips on the following things: using reference tracks and spectrum analysers whilst mixing, plus any tips to help with ear training eg. recognising frequencies.

Editing and saving found sound audio files using Ableton

DAW or Software Questions

Many thanks, Rob. Those tutorials look like they'll cover exactly what I was looking for. I have only watched the first one so far but will work my way through the rest of them shortly. Thanks, Simon, for your suggestions too. I'll definitely experiment with simpler and sampler as you suggest.

Editing and saving found sound audio files using Ableton

DAW or Software Questions

I've made a few home recordings of percussive sounds with a Zoom recorder, which I'd like to use in my projects. However, I'm not sure of the best way to prepare, edit and save the audio files so that I can best use them as samples in Ableton. After looking at a few tutorials online I get the impression I should be editing the files in the arrangement view and then exporting them as audio to a folder on my PC and then importing them into my project from there. Is that about right? Should I be doing anything to the audio files such as normalising them - and can that be done in Ableton?