cleaning lab 16 unexpected auto cut off

ken8E wrote on 3/28/2015, 3:25 PM

Using this software for vocal sound recording, the software sometimes erases passages when the same spoken words are used more than once. The second passage is cut where the duplication starts. E.G. if someone makes a mistake in a reading and re-reads from before their mistake, when the recording is stopped, the duplicated vocals vanish from the recording. Normaly, when all is well, I just go back and edit the "out-take". This has happened on several occasions over the last couple of years so is not a one-off. Any ideas for a cure would be appreciated. Are there any background settings I can tweak?

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browj2 wrote on 3/28/2015, 5:02 PM

Hi,

ACL has no way of knowing what someone is saying or that they are repeating something, etc., so the problem is elsewhere.

I don't have the same version as you, so I am guessing.

If someone makes a mistake, are you stopping the recording or is it still running? Normally, if you stop the recording, when you start recording again, recording starts from the end of the track, even if you set the playback marker part way along. Try this to see. Check also the filename and location. There should only be 1 file for the recording.

I am using AML and and I did a test. I recorded 3 parts and stopped the recording after each one and then went back and cut out part, moved parts around etc., and saved the VIP. I noted the filename and location of the wave file. I closed AML, and opened the wave file with Windows Media Player. The original unmodified recording was there, all in one file. The modifications only exist in the program and not in the source recording.

Did you check the original recording to see if everything was there? You can open it in a new project and listen to it.

Note that if you record with one filename and then save the project with another name, the next time that you open ACL and record again, you will get a new wave file created.

Remember that ACL is a non-destructive editor, so any edits that you do, including cutting, trimming and moving things around in no way touches the original recording. You can actually delete all of the parts that you trimmed and moved, leaving just one part, and then recover the file by dragging the lower left or right handle out. Everything should still be there.

HTH

johnebaker wrote on 3/29/2015, 1:29 AM

. . . . . E.G. if someone makes a mistake in a reading and re-reads from before their mistake, when the recording is stopped, the duplicated vocals vanish from the recording. . . . .

Assuming the recording is continuous and you did not stop it at the error.

Did someone mute the mic or turn it off as soon as the mistak was made?

John EB