Student: Afrodite Karantonaki - Assignment 1

Target audience:
Sound engineers (professional or amateurs). The following instructions require that users have
already prior fundamental knowledge on sound editors or DAWs.

Described procedure: Punch in and out

This procedure is necessary for performing overdubs for replacing part(s) of a recording.

Instructions:
The most common solution to repairing your recording, other than re-record it from the beginning,
is simply to record over the section and autopunch is a great way to do this. In the autopunch
procedure, you can select a specific part of the recording with assigned start and end points (see
green area in the figure below), and implement the autopunch procedure. Logic will playback the
song until it reaches the record-start point: it will start recording from the that point till the record-
end point; then, Logic will keep on playbacking the song (it does not stop automatically, unless you
press ‘stop’ from the transport bar or by pressing the space from the keyboard). Two major
advantages of this process comparing to punching in on the fly are precision and concentration of
the musician-engineer on playing instead of controlling the software. Autopunch can be done in the
following 5 steps:

a) first, select the area of the song that you want to implement overdubbing either by pressing
option-command-click or by clicking the autopunch button in the control bar.

Picture 1. The autopunch button

b) select the area you want to implement overdubbing by dragging the locators in the desired
points. The selected area will be highlighted in red. The left point is the punch-in locator and the
right point is the punch-out one.

Picture 2. The punch in-out locators that determine the overdubbed area

c) place the playhead at any position before the punch-in point.

d) click the record button to start recording (or press R).

e) click the stop button to stop recording.

Logic will record audio only between these two locators; any audio before or after them is normally
played without however being recorded.