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I think it’s a fair assumption that the majority of us home recording folks have a few of our favorite short cuts. Of course, the obvious ones are undo and save.

Hitting Command or Ctrl + S (Save) is one of the best habits you can get into. You only have to lose hours of work once to realize how important saving often is. It’s become an OCD move for me, that’s for sure.

What about the undo button? Also one of my favorites. The beauty of the digital recording world is that it doesn’t take much to hit undo and try again. The problem with that, however, is that the performance can often times become less important.

Fix this, fix that. Edit this, edit that. Next thing you know, you have a chopped up mess.

Not to mention, every time you hit stop playback and undo, that audio is just piling up in your hard drive.

ABORT!

So, here’s the quick tip of the day: When you’re tracking a part and you realize that it plain sucks, don’t hit space bar. Instead, just hit Command or Ctrl + Period. This will abort the take as if it never exists.

No audio piling up, no messy region bin and hopefully a better performance.