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Advanced features
Introduction
In this chapter, we are going to go over some of the ad-
vanced features found in Sequel. Make sure you have gone
through all of the previous chapters before proceeding.
Ö The following sections make references to tutorial
projects, located in the default Sequel project folder.
Adding silence
Adding silence allows you to strip out or mute sections of
an audio event to erase unwanted clicks or glitches. This is
great for removing headphone bleed from vocal tracks or
any other extraneous noise when there should be silence.
Ö The process is non-destructive. It only mutes the se-
lected section of audio.
Here we have a simple project with drums, bass, guitar
and an organ track.
The guitar track was recorded by placing a mic in front of
the amp. Therefore, there is a lot of noise present when
the guitarist wasn’t playing anything. Let’s clean it up.
1. Select the “Guitar” event.
2. In the Multi Zone, select the Editor Page.
3. Notice that, when you hover the cursor over the sam-
ple editor, it changes to a selection tool.
4. Find an area where the guitarist wasn’t playing. There
is an area right at the beginning and in between the first
and second bar. Click and drag to highlight a section of
the event. You may want to zoom in.
Notice that the selection area becomes gray.
Let’s make sure that the selection doesn’t contain any au-
dio that we want to keep.
5. Place your cursor at the left and right edge of the se-
lection. The cursor changes allowing us to adjust the size
of the selection by clicking and dragging.
Adjust the selection so that it is as tight as possible to the audio that you
want to keep.
6. When you are done, press [Delete] or [Backspace] on
your computer keyboard to remove the selection and cre-
ate silence.
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Load the project “Adding Silence 1” found in the
“Sequel Tutorial 5” folder.