Music Editing

Music editing is the assembly and refinement of recorded musical material, including choosing and combining takes, correcting timing and tuning, and shaping a performance into its final form.^[1] Editors work with the multitrack session to comp the best moments together, tighten ensemble timing, and remove unwanted noises while preserving the feel of the performance.

In screen work, music editing also covers fitting cues to picture, adjusting lengths, and managing transitions so that music lands precisely against the edit. Done well, the process is invisible, leaving a result that sounds like a single natural performance rather than a construction of many separate pieces.^[2]