Punching In for Home Recording

Video Transcript

"Hi! My name is Jesus Cardoso, and I’m going to teach you a very old, but very useful, technique; it’s called punching. What punching is when you basically setup a complete track. Let’s say that you finish your complete vocal track, and everything is good with the exception of one single phrase where the vocalist went kind of flat on the tuning or he might have just forgotten the word or stuttered. Then you can go back from the beginning and just record that single phrase. With today’s technologies, with computers, it’s much easier to do those punching in and out. So you can actually punch not only a phrase but just a word and sometimes even just a letter. Also, make sure that when you’re punching in and out, you don’t cut in between any part of the word that can actually be audible. Let’s say that when you’re recording “we want rock”, it’s always better to find that little fraction where there’s not real word or vowel being said. In this case, the T’s are a good place where we can actually punch in. You can punch in there rock and punch right out. Always make sure that you punch out right when the phrase or the word has been finished. "