Comping Multiple Mics

Cubase
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Hi everyone,

I’m a little bit desperate and hoping someone can giive me some tips!

Here’s my situation:

I have vocals recorded by 3 different mics (at the same time) and multiple takes. I want to comp the takes of all 3 spearate mics simultaenously by using the group editing function.

Some takes are longer than others. I am therefore assuming that I therefore get the message that some parts are put of sync. I have tried to the events to part thing, however then I can’t acccess the individual lanes anymore.

Is there an easy way to get around this? How do you comp multiple mics simulatenously?

Cheers

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Hi,
Is it really necessary to do the Group Editing here? This is useful, if you want to time-stretch multiple tracks at once. But I expect, you will just cut them at the same time. If you put all tracks to the same folder, you can then cut on the Folder level.

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thanks for the reply!

I’m not sure I understand what you mean. Right now I have vocal takes that have been recorded with 3 mics simultaenously.

I have it set up so that mic 1 is on track 1 with all the takes of Mic 1 on the lanes below. Mic 2 is on track 2 with all the takes of Mic2 on lanes below etc…

If I comp the takes of Mic 1, the remaining mics are not being comped, and I have to manually recreate the comps which is extrmeley tedious.

If I put them all in a folder and select “group edit” I have an error message that takes might not be in sync since the length of certain takes differs. I tried bouncing all the tracks yesterday to get them to identical length, however the same error message appeared :confused:

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I see, I didn’t got the point, you always want to use the same take for all mics.

I’m thinking to use a TrackVersions. This allows you to sync the “selection” in multiple tracks.

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I was thinking about that as well, but thats aso rather time consuming since I have to create a new version for each comp. I think it might be easiest to do it maually for each mic…

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There is a function “Create Versions from Lanes” under the Project > TrackVersions menu. This should speed it up.

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Did you listen for phase issues when setting the mics up? If not trying to fix them after chopping up and comping will be a nightmare. Get the tracks in phase before you start editing.