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How To Make Radio Edits for Spotify

By Freddie HarbMarch 31, 20221 min read
How To Make Radio Edits for Spotify

Looking for an easy way to make radio edits for Spotify and cut downs of your songs after you’ve produced them? I was explaining this to a friend recently and I have a short cut for you. I used to do this the hard way and make a whole other session but if I needed to go back and make changes then I was having to either redo my work or do the work in both sessions (or as many sessions as I had!). Look at this easy tip to speed you up!

#TimeStamps

0:00 Start
00:54 Introduction
01:50 How I Make Radio Versions
03:46 How to Cutdown For Trailers

#StepByStep

  1. Introductions – Brief overview of the concept

  2. How I Make Radio Versions – Here I share how I make my radio edits for Spotify or various versions of a song.

  3. How to Cutdown For Trailers – I give another example here and share how you can use Ableton short cuts time length to cut down for trailers.

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