Record Producer - FAQs

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Cleaning Up Audio Recordings
To ensure the highest quality of recording, there are a few things you should
do after recording:

1. Save your recording!   

2. Select the area you just recorded and choose Effects > Digital Audio > 
   DC Offset from the menu.  For optimal results press Suggest and then OK 
   after the ideal values are calculated.  Running this on just part of a 
   recording can introduce clicks at the beginning and ending of the selected
   region.

3. If your recording sounds a little too quiet, you have a few different
   options.  You can select Effects ? Digital Audio ? Normalize which will 
   make certain that you have the hottest possible signal.  If you have a 
   recording with numerous pauses though (such as a vocal track) you may find
   that the noise levels increase along with your vocal.  Other options are:

     * Re-record the passage with your recording levels a little higher.  
     * Select Effects > Digital Audio > Compressor/Noise Gate to remove 
       noise from silent passages.   (Available in Deluxe Edition only)

4. If the recording sounds uneven with some points much louder than others,
   select Effects > Digital Audio > Compressor/Noise Gate and use the 
   Compressor or Limiter functions to smooth out your recording.

5. Finally, if your recording has a great deal of pauses and empty space, 
   it is best to delete these spaces.  Record Producer will remember where 
   the active sections are supposed to start and end and display a silent 
   line (at 0%) in a different color.  This will allow your song to take up 
   much less hard disk space.
  
   To delete these unnecessary spaces, either select the range and select 
   Edit > Delete, or you can run the Noise Gate function (Effects > Digital
   Audio > Compressor/Noise Gate) with very low settings to remove the pauses
   automatically.

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