The only way you should be editing your guitars! Modern Metal edition

[@dannyriffs]

you don't crossfade the splits after slip editing?

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

I do most of the time tbh, but it’s not as necessary as you would think.

[@mitiasmirnovmusic]

The only thing that gets me about these tutorials is the quantising part. For example in your video you say you have your grid set to 1/16th notes. Surely not every single note in your riff is the same value? I'm not very good at music theory and I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head round this. Could you please help?

[@SpencerMaxfield]

You’re right about this! I usually edit section by section for this reason (verse, chorus, etc.). I’ll set my quantize to the lowest common subdivision. And then if there’s a section with triplets, dotted notes, etc. I quantize that part standalone and switch my grid settings to match. Sometimes I’m going a few bars at a time and switching my grid subdivision back and forth each chunk.

[@TheTimeProphet]

I don't know. I would feel like I am cheating if I did it like this. I mean what if you want to play it live?

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Yeah I get that feeling tbh, but the current standard for a lot of these kinds of music is for it to sound as perfect as possible. Playing this stuff live is a totally different ball game which obviously requires you to practice until it’s nearly perfect. It’s totally up to you if you want to do this kind of editing but it doesn’t hurt to learn either way 🤘🏻

[@thevishyfishy]

I have found that stretch markers work the best for me to slightly nudge notes to be tighter. If I need to do larger edits, I would rather just record another take.

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Yeah once the stretching starts to get too long it introduces a heap of artifacting which is less than ideal

[@MrOscyn]

Awesome video.

[@michaelaugust7922]

I've been trying wrap my head around editing guitars, and I've watched plenty of videos on how it's done, but your workflow and the way you explained it made it click for me. Thanks for the best guitar editing video I've seen online.

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Man that’s so good, I’m glad you were able to understand my workflow and use it for yourself! 🤘

[@Sliver90]

now do this video but for Alternative Rock

[@Lfdelhoyo]

More of mixing tips please, thank you🙌

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Mixing tutorials are definitely in the works

[@SpendUser]

Hey man. Great tutorial, thank you for sharing the techniques) But i have a question, what about those auto fades at the end and begging of every audio clip in sleep editing part? These autofades is differently creates an audible clicks at every cut. Do you remove it, making cross-fades at the end of the process? Or how do you deal with it? Thank again for the great video)

[@chrisfinster1346]

Good shit Mason.

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Cheers mate

[@spoonerluv]

Man this is a wonderful video - thanks for all of the knowledge!

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Thanks Joel! I’m glad you liked it.

[@nickharrisriffs]

Thanks Mason, I've been using the stretch markers method for a while but I'm going to try the slip editing way you showed at the end. Are you still currently using that way?

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

I most definitely am still slip editing, would highly recommend giving it a try 🤘

[@tusharjamwal]

come on guys, where's the hate for quantised music? we need more clowns in the chat to get the engagement up

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Yeah we love more engagement here 🤘

[@josuep329]

Hey Mason! Thank you for these great advices, they're very informative, but I have a question.. what's your opinion on recording the guitars as best as possible and listen to it a couple times or even make multiple takes to choose the best result? I haven't tried that but I bet it will also have a good sound, probably people won't notice the difference between one and other but that could be in the list too.

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Yeah absolutely, I know plenty of people who do that and that should always be the goal in the first place. Further editing is just another way to give your song that final polish, but it’s not for everyone.

[@thelostboymusic]

Bummer we couldnt hear the Reaper Audio, but interesting techiques I look forward to trying out - thank you for this

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Yeah not the greatest result unfortunately, definitely give it a crack!

[@inadistantland6578]

Cubase metronome sound is the best for metronome

[@MasonSTLWRLD]

Reaper is so good in so many ways but the reaper metronome ain’t it haha

[@AccordingToGary]

you can import your own click (metronome) in Reaper

[@inadistantland6578]

@@AccordingToGary that's exactly what I did firstly :)