When two or more sources are used to record a single instrument, there is an inherit delay between the tracks, because each mic will be a slightly different distance from the instrument. Examples of this would be a snare top and snare bottom mic; miking a guitar while also taking a DI split; or having a close mic and a room mic on any instrument. When these audio tracks are summed without compensating for this offset, some frequencies will cancel each other out, while other frequencies will build up – an effect known as comb filtering. To eliminate this problem Sound Radix has designed an easy to use time-aligning plugin that will automatically compensate for delay between any two audio tracks. Auto-Align can help not only with phase issues, but by aligning your tracks it can add some attack and punchiness to the sound as well. To use, you insert Auto-Align on the track you intend to time-shift, and set the side-chain input as the track you want to align it to. Then simply hit play in your DAW, then engage the ‘Detect’ button on the plugin, and you’re pretty much done. Auto-Align will take a few seconds of playback […]... Click on the title for more