Topic: bridging a gap

[newscane]

So I taped my first show tonight, with the rig that my friend loaned me while she's out of the country for the summer.  It's km184>ua-5>jb3.  During the first few minutes of the show, I accidentally stopped the recording while rearranging some things.  I realized it right away, and had a new recording going within 5-10 seconds.  I figured I'd just butt the two together and crossfade in that track.  Is that the best approach?  No other tapers there tonight that I could patch in another source from.

[F.O.Bean]

let it go, thats the way it goes sometimes, at least ya got 99.9% of it

[newscane]

let it go, thats the way it goes sometimes, at least ya got 99.9% of it

so just leave it as a "skip" of sorts in the middle of the track? (and mention it in the notes?)  Or "smooth" it out with a crossfade?

[JasonSobel]

yeah, I would just leave it as a skip and mention it in the notes.  I did a similar thing once with my D8.  I thought I pushed the button to turn on the backlight, and when the light didn't come on, I realized that I had paused the deck.  a little note in the text file and that was that.  oh well.

or what you could do is cross-fade the two parts and see how it sounds.  if it sounds less disruptive that way, go with it.  otherwise, just stick with what you've got...

[guitard]

let it go, thats the way it goes sometimes, at least ya got 99.9% of it

so just leave it as a "skip" of sorts in the middle of the track? (and mention it in the notes?)  Or "smooth" it out with a crossfade?

If it occurred during a repetitive portion of the song, you might be able to copy the same sounding audio from elsewhere in the song and paste it into the gap.  If not that, you might be able to snip a little audio from before or after (or both) of the gap and find a point where it doesn't sound bad when you crossfade the two ends back together.  Obviously, if you do this, to even have a chance of it sounding good, you'll have to remain on beat.

If all else fails, just do as others have suggested and leave it as is.

[vishwa]

I did a similar boo boo too

I was able to put the two tracks back to back and for some reason you can't even tell it's missing 5-10 sec's

mistakes will happen I guess

mike