Tracktion Waveform - Comping (musical collage)
Channel: Bren the Navigator
Date: 2021-05-24

Comping in Tracktion Waveform (like musical collage)

0:00 Intro 
0:33 Guitar Recording
1:38 Auditioning Takes
2:31 Show Takes
3:00 Comping 
16:38 Finished Comp 
18:02 Rendering 
19:46 Unpack Takes
20:59 Conclusion 

Have you ever wanted to make a collage of the best bits of several takes in your home studio? With #comping you can pick the best bits of each solo and combine them into a #composite-track that sounds as if you played it like that in the first place! 

I love the way that #TracktionWaveform implements comping. It's one of the most intuitive user interfaces I've seen for this kind of work. 

The backing track for this is by Enda Dempsey from the Guitarist Ireland Facebook group, from a series of short backing tracks in a variety of genres that members of the group share videos of themselves playing along with. It's been a great way to keep ourselves entertained since all the gigs stopped  last year. Feel free to try some of them yourself here on youtube: https://youtu.be/KGiT379Hk8M 

I was curious about how well I could get the guitar to sound by plugging straight into the interface. It's not bad, but I have yet to process the sound in Waveform, trying out things like Guitarix or whatever other amp sim that I can find in Linux. That should be interesting. 

By the way, I am not sponsored by Tracktion. I made this video because I want to share some of the great tools in Waveform. If you are interested in the various #DAWs that are available on Linux, I will also soon have videos about #Bitwig and #HarrisonMixbus, as well as tutorials on how to setup your #Linux distro with #JACK etc for #musicproduction. 

I hope you enjoyed this video. See you soon.

Gear Used: 

DAW: Tracktion Waveform (https://www.tracktion.com) 
Mic: Rode M5
Audio Interface: Allen & Heath ZEDi 10FX 
Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT250 (80 Ohms)
Studio Monitors: Adam Audio T7V 
Guitar: Ibanez, John Scofield model
Amp: None this time, just straight into the interface.
Video editing: kdenlive 
OS: Linux Manjaro