Possible Out of Phase issues

[Rick Cornish]

I’ve used Auto-Align. It works.


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[mikehalloran]

Did a little more research with Phase/Time issues and called on a buddy of mine who records acoustic guitar. Apparently there is a plug-in called Auto-Align 2 that will analyze your tracks and correct Phase and Time issues on the raw tracks before you mix or bounce tracks.

https://www.soundradix.com/products/auto-align/

Just wondering if anyone has experience with this method. I have now downloaded the trial version and applied it to my three mic tracks as well as the M-S tracks I just recorded yesterday. Might be the ticket, like autotune for microphones.

The assumption is that timing and phase discrepancies are linear and Auto-align can resolve those to the gnat's whisker. The fact is that these are not linear which means that it can find the same point in two samples and align those but it cannot get them perfectly in phase. I'm not saying don't try it but it can't work miracles. You might like the results.

You don't need it, however. MOTU's Precision Delay plug-in does the same thing—again, read the plug-ins manual. Many of us obtained Eventide's Precision Time Align for free a long time ago—yet another approach to the same thing and the one that I prefer.

Any of those can align two points but it can't rewrite the laws of physics.