How To Edit Metal Guitars

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Software I am Using:
Cubase Pro 11
Archetype Nolly
SSD Drums 5.5
GGD Invasion
Eurobass II

Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:05 - Comparison
0:38 - What Is Editing?
1:30 - Anatomy of a Guitar Note
2:42 - Slip Editing
4:11 - Audio Warp (My Preference)
6:37 - Manual Gating
8:32 - Fine Tuning
9:56 - Bounce Selection
10:17 - Final Comparison
10:56 - Outro

[marcmersol]

Wow, took me a while to find the right search terms but this was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you! 99.99% of metal editing videos are tone only. I wanted wave file edit for metal guitar.

[SHARt_murmur]

Good stuff, probably the best guitar editing vid I’ve stumbled on.

[Matheus-nesl]

Even the unedited guitars sounds better than mine lollololol

[troidl]

well done! It is so much fun to get lost in DAW work and find out more and more relevant tips and tricks! Been using cubase for 6 years but this helped alot!

[Balmasedalpha]

thanks! this is rare to find in the net, but vital for extreme metal.

[Wtsmyageagain]

Thank you. Will echo what others have said in that this is exactly what I've been looking for in terms of editing tracks and what to look out for. There's tons of tone & EQ videos but this part gets neglected or creators assume you should know this.

[coltonrudd]

I've been watching a lot of videos on guitar editing in different DAWs because I'm frustrated that Pro Tools seems to be way behind when it comes to ease of performing this task. Reaper and Cubase seem much easier and intuitive, ESPECIALLY with the slip editing and being able to just click and drag the region to move it forward or back and not affect the rest, instead of having to use a keyboard command to nudge sample by sample. Seeing your warp and fade adjustments was also really great to watch, and makes a strong argument for using Cubase! Great work man!

[johnnylucid]

Thanks for the great content. I appreciate you sharing this.
Keep up the excellent work.

[knocky]

what a production so underrated, proper recognition will come I hope. greetings dude!

[justinreynolds]

All about that big pp energy man!! Good video

[DistrictfMisery]

Warp editing and manual gating! 🔥 Great video man. What a sexual voice as well !

[mattelder]

This is such a great video. Just wondering if the DI needs to be a certain level? Thanks!

[russelw.]

which algorithm did you use? although i do very little editing like talking ms the overall sound is altered i guess due to the stretching algorithm applied across the entire event even when not stretching anything. this creeps me out

[xx]

Your sound kick ass men very very good sound..

[ignadrs]

LOVED THE CONTENT!! how would you approach SUUUPER tight djenty guitar editing? like that after the burial's neo soul song, that has really tight robotic guitars lol

[AncestorGabo]

Amazing vid! Thanks for the great content. I got a question. I'm trying to edit a song with a bunch of 16th notes and triplets. How am i able to identify the pick of a note from the decay of the previous note. Sorry if it's a silly question, i'm a beginner in this whole metal production thing. Thanks in advance! :D

[progreggae]

thank you for this video Brian! can you PLEASE show/record those editing techniques in Presonus Studio One?

[MusicForTherapy]

Is this a similar method to logics flextime?

[gonzalomartinezdevelasco]

Nice and useful video. Do you edit both left and right guitars to the grid? Don't you lose width, stereo or wall feeling that way? Thanks in advance.

[coltcrevar]

Hey man is your fiver account still active by any chance? Would love to have some help editing wise in the near future.