In my first editing session, I only imported the first day’s recordings into Pro Tools, I felt it would be easier to work with only one day’s sessions at a time, that way I don’t get confused with any of the order of where the tracks need to be within the timeline of the walk through Lincoln. The last thing I want is for the sound of the cathedral bells being before the hustle and bustle of the high street. Whilst editing, I realised that a lot of my files were not at the same levels, so I spent a while automating the files, so that they were in line with each other, there’s obviously going to be parts where tracks are louder due to sounds such as cars going past, or a train going past, however, I tried to level out each track to when these things did happen, it was a nice dynamic change rather than a horrible sound that will make you want to turn it off.

After I automated the tracks, I then listened through and decided what I could cut out, and what I needed to keep to make sure that there were no unnecessary sounds that I had already covered in other sections of the soundscape. In the end, I managed to get the session down from 28 minutes’ worth of recording to 13 minutes of recording. Once I had cut down the recordings, and figured out what I wanted to keep in, I then lined all the tracks together and added fades and crossfades to make sure all the sounds ran into each other smoothly.