How To Edit A Song With Seamless Perfection

Have you ever heard an edited version of a song where all the bad words are played backwards and you have to stop bobbing your head because the beat gets all messed up? Or when they take out a word like "weed" or "gat" but leave in the B-word or the A-word? Or when there's some goofy sound effect like a car horn instead of the bad word? Well, I have, and it annoys the living [car horn] out of me.

So here's how you can create a clean version of any song that sounds professionally done and never loses a beat.

1) Get a multi-track audio program (like Ad0be Auditi0n).

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2) Open your MP3 file.

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3) Find your swear word, and split it off.

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4) Delete it or mute it.

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5) Find an instrumental part in the song (a few bars within the song that have no vocals - usually at the beginning or end of the song).

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6) Make a copy of it.

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7) Line up your instrumental segment with your swear word (look at the peaks in the audio wave – lining up the snares is the easiest).

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8) Fade your main track out, then back in around the swear word.

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9) Fade your instrumental track in, then back out around the swear word.

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10) Locate and edit the rest of your unwanted swear words.

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11) Listen to it to see how it turned out.

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12) Save your file. (You can save immediately as an MP3. I save it as a WAV, then convert it to a high quality MP3 using a program, such as R@zor L@me).

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13) Voila! Seamless editing with no backwards beats or silly sound effects.


And that's how it's done.

Note: If you have the instrumental version of a song, it saves a lot of trouble. If the song doesn't have an instrumental portion, using a part where there's scratching sounds great too. Sometimes you have to get creative, and sometimes it's a lost cause. Play around and see what works. After a few tries, you'll be able to bang one out in just a few minutes.

And here's the finished product:
Emin3m - I'm B@ck (clean)
Click here to git it, git it!