Topic: Help with mixing two sources

[bossman284]

Not sure there's an easy/quick answer but can anyone offer some how to advice on how to mix two recordings of the same show together?  I have access to Cool Edit and Sound Forge.

Thanks

[rabhan]

uhhh, highlight one source and drag ontop the other and select mix? dunno, try that. but first make backup copies of each file just in case you fuck up.

[bossman284]

I'm asuuming it's a little more complicated than that, since the recordings are exactly the same length nor are they the same speed since they were recorded on two different decks. Thanks anyway.

Any other suggestions?

[dklein]

Here's some previous threads - the big decision is to stretch or to cut...my time discrepancies have always been too big for cutting - I'd be cutting every minute or two to keep things within a 10ms alignment window.  I was happy to find an acceptable sounding stretch funtion in Wavelab.  Then I multitrack in CEP (which has some awesome features in multitrack if you find you need to eq one of the sources).  You can monitor the whole thing without doing the mixdown.

http://www.taperssection.com/yabbse/index.php?board=1;action=display;threadid=7635

http://www.taperssection.com/yabbse/index.php?board=23;action=display;threadid=6988

[Craig T]

I know this has been covered in another thread - maybe search "matrix" to find it.  Here's the basics using Cool Edit, since Cool edit will allow you to load both sources into the same multi-track workspace (Sound Forge would only let you do this by placing one source in the clipboard - much harder to work with).  1st, cut one source into tracks with something like CDWave.  2nd, load the "untracked" source into Cool Edit's multi-track view.  3rd, load the other source into Cool Edit, lining it up track by track.  Last, do a mixdown.