"do you glue sections together"
As simply another aside here, the process in recording software of cutting and pasting is the same whether a person is taking pieces from a group of takes to assemble a "best" take or whether a person is patching in just one section to fix some technical problem, such as unwanted or extraneous noise. I think our tendency to discuss more than just gluing sections together is because the editing process is pretty much the same.
The process of "punching in" to create a best vocal take, something I have done many, many times on pure audio recordings, is not the same process in that the cutting and pasting is not done literally, though figuratively in my mind it seems very similar.
Brent Hahn's comments that folks in the classical world do a fair amount of editing like this is very interesting and new information to me. That's fascinating.
I had no idea.
- Glenn