How I Edit Drums Using Slip Editing in Pro Tools

[@alesnovak2906]

It's better to cut/slice before AND after the hit before nudging,so you are not moving hits that are already Ok and just creating more work to be done.

[@johnsnyder4949]

i really like your content pablo it concise to the point and very easy to understand. and thank you for making these multi tracks available its really nice to have some material to practice and learn with.

[@PabloLaFrossia]

Much appreciated! Thanks 🙏

[@leerbechmorten]

Thank you for a good video, good explaining. 😊

[@PabloLaFrossia]

Thank you! I really appreciate it.

[@LukaPanik]

So what would be the main advantage of this over the beat detective?

[@PabloLaFrossia]

@@LukaPanik You can use beat detective. And I’ve tried, but BT tends to complicate things and make mistakes more often than not, in my opinion.

[@jjtweed-music]

This tutorial helped me tremendously! Thank you, man...

[@PabloLaFrossia]

I’m glad it was helpful!

[@shashik.g115]

Hey Pablo, I'd recon working from the end of the song instead because if the drummer went off just in the beginning of the song then by moving that one hit you end up moving the rest of the file. So by working backwards from the end to the start you avoid messing the perfect/good hits. Cheers mate!

[@PabloLaFrossia]

That’s cool! I never tried it that way. In my experience drummers tend to get back on the click after each sections or after a roll; they fall back in the pockets. By using markers, I can just move things back.

[@PabloLaFrossia]

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[@nicholasvegas2899]

Amazing video thank you! Does this same method still work if you have a normal beat pattern, but ringing crash and ride cymbals in the overheads? Does beat detective using smooth and cross fades still work? Or would it involve going in manually to get the ringing of the overheads to continue through the edits?

[@PabloLaFrossia]

The cymbals (overheads) is where you'll hear the most "artifacts" if the cut is wrong, but if you place it right before the transient, you should be okay. Once you're done editing, playback with the OH track raised up high and listen for any "bad" edits.

[@nicholasvegas2899]

@@PabloLaFrossia great I’ll try it Out thank you! I have a beat that’s kick on 1 and 3 snare on 2 and 4 with the ride doing eights, I was manually trying to move them before with clicking nudge on the whole bar and I was having a hard time making the ride ring seem less! I’ll try the tab to transient method!

[@CrustyMonk]

If your working with a lot harder music genres where the beat is riding on say a crash cymbal and you run into artifacts when editing in the overheads. How do you combat that to make it sound better?

[@PabloLaFrossia]

It’s a bit harder but can be done. First I’ll get the hit where I want it whether it’s the kick or snare. Then I look at the overheads and adjust it until the waveforms match.