cutting off seconds of dead air at beginning of song help?

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2012/03/12 14:37:50 (permalink)

cutting off seconds of dead air at beginning of song help?

I like the volume of the CWP version of a song I've done, but I need to cut off seconds of dead air at the beginning without doing it track by track? How? I tried just exporting the whole song as wav. and then importing it back into CWP track as a whole, but for some reason the volume was low and when i turned it up it got hot. Also it seems to lose something on the second mix down. Can I skip the second mix down?
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    Re:cutting off seconds of dead air at beginning of song help? 2012/03/12 16:12:50 (permalink)
    You simply need a good audio editor. 

    download this one.....>>>> Wavepad>>>  http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html

    I use it all the time.... it has TRIM START and TRIM END   as well as insert silence (normally I use this at the beginning to add silence..... and it also normalizes the wave,,,, which brings up the level with out clipping it. 

    It also converts waves to MP3.

    Export from Cake as a wave... open it in Wavepad, do the edits and save it. Done. 

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    Re:cutting off seconds of dead air at beginning of song help? 2012/03/13 05:10:29 (permalink)
    Select the portion in the timeline > Cut > Delete hole.

    You have not compressed/limited the project to a higher volume level. What you hear is not the true volume of the exported project, it's what the Master Bus meters show that is the actual volume.
     
    post edited by Kalle Rantaaho - 2012/03/13 05:13:03

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