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Old 22nd October 2007, 03:02 PM   #133
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This is prolly a really dumb questions but what is the easiest way of droppin the beat for a couple seconds during a significant part of a rapper performance. For example the last 3 words of a bar. During the mixing stage.
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^^^^highlight the part of the beat you want silenced and press delete.
Mute is a better way to do this.

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Another question is say I don't make beats so what the people usually do is just bring their own beats on a cd. Say during a couple bars I just want to drop the kicks in the beat, what would be the easist way of doing that in pro tools?
If you are trying to manipulate a 2 track insturmental (by, say, dropping everything but the kick), an automated LP filter and/or eqing is probably one of the only ways to go. But, in general, once a beat is printed/bounced/mixed thats the way it will be.
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