How can I paste a masking clip over another clip?

leebut


Hello forum,

I've been trying to paste room tone over gaps in my audio, but when I do, the underlying clip is still audible. I don't want dead silence as that is too much of a drop to the ears.

This is what I did as a test (please excuse the mouse writing):





I moved a copy of that left section on track 1 over track 2, but I can still hear it. I tried that bounce clips thing, but that didn't do anything. It was still a separate entity on the track.


Thank you,

Lee.

Not quite sure what you mean but I'll guess.

Looks like the blue track has a gap that needs to be filled.  so you can do several things.  simply copy the blue (record 1 busy) clip and paste it into the hole....or insert a new track and paste it into that track. this way the ambient sound of the room is there. I would try to trim it to the exact start and end point on the timeline for the gap since overlap may show up as slightly louder room sound/noise. Editing must be exact so it avoids a click or artifact of editing. Cross fading with envelopes and let the clips overlap a bit is probably the best way to keep it seamless. 


A better solution would be to use envelopes. In the blue track use the envelope to keep the volume at ZERO (all the way down) so you have total silence. unless the room noise is absolutely critical. 


If you are trying to have silence or just room noise and the "underlying audio" in the pink track is sounding through..... you can use envelopes in the pink track to control it's level in the mix as well. 


When I work, I DO NOT use the layering capability of the DAW to have multiple clips in a track in the same place at the same time. Since the DAW can easily handle many tracks, I prefer to have each clip in it's own track. Easier to deal with and control. 


If you have two clips in the same place, simply add/insert a new audio track and drag one of the clips into the new track. 

Guitarhacker, I understood it so, that the grey clip with writing on it contains the ambience noise, and the problem is that the audio clip under  it remains audible. That's why I suggested checking record options. I'm not saying I've understood correctly.

dragging a clip of low level ambient noise over a clip of something else louder will not solve the issue. The louder stuff will sound through. 

You must do as I pointed out. use envelopes and put the ambient noise into a new track. pull the stuff down that you don't want to hear. 

With multi track capability, it doesn't matter how many tracks are used to accomplish something.  Just be sure to have the same FX in the tracks or run the tracks into a buss with the FX so they all sound the same. 

Example: In my song The Best Christmas, I have 4 slightly different leads playing in 4 different tracks. Using envelopes, I pick and choose the parts of each track I want and send them all to a buss with the FX. Listening to the song you can not tell it was 4 different tracks.

I zoom in to make the edits surgical in nature.  In the pic below, I did the same thing with 3 piano tracks to get the fills I liked best. I don't use the layers in the tracks, I prefer using as many tracks as is needed.

yes, it is.