The fifth Yule Lad to come down from the mountains is Pottaskefill.

The English translation of his name is Pot-Scraper and he is " Steals leftovers from pots."

He has something to say about editing.

First of all, make sure you edit all your silences out. There's nothing more distracting to a vocal performance than the hum of a guitar amp. Once your silences have actually been silenced make sure all your instruments have been edited to the grooviest instrument in the song. If you're producing a human band then find the person who keeps the best time. This is usually the drummer but if he can't play for shit you should edit him as much as you can before you edit everyone else to the drums. Don't anally edit to the grid if it kills the feel of the performance. Use editing to enhance feel, not take it away. Find the intersection of excitement and technical precision. If you edit to a click track you will always sense when the performance is slightly off. If you silence the click and you can't notice the slight variation in tempo then don't worry about it. Only edit that which detracts from the enjoyment of listening to the performance.

Keep that in mind anytime you're editing a human performance and you'll end up with something exciting and fun.

Unfortunately, those tips don't really apply to beats and electronica, our yule lads are luddites that don't understand technology that well so you'll have to forgive their ignorance in the matter.

For a complete run-through on how to edit like that I show you all my methods in the Editing package of Quick Mixing.

Check it out here:

www.QuickMixing.com