Auto Align 2 REVIEW: 1 Click Game Changer?

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Auto Align 2 REVIEW: 1 Click Game Changer?

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Jay Maas Recording

Күн бұрын

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@edwardkenemorales 2 ай бұрын

The amount of free education we get today from top engineers themselves is craaaaaaazy! Thanks so much Jay! Really appreciate what you do.

@fredfox3851 2 ай бұрын

For me, the biggest bang for the buck is aligning the overheads to the snare top. I do that manually, as auto align is very expensive.

@mattelder4269 2 ай бұрын

MAuto Align is on sale for $32. I have gotten some good results from this one. Definitely faster than manual.

@LukeDimondTV 2 ай бұрын

Just realized you had a channel and am all for it! My band Anchorlines recorded with you a LONG LONG time ago, cool to circle back!

@JayMaasRecording 2 ай бұрын

Dude that’s so cool you found me! Hope things are well!

@atgred 2 ай бұрын

TLA does it manually and uses the top snare as the main track to align to. For me, if I align all mics I loose depth. So only if the mic placement, especially if the rooms are skewed, then I will bring them to a more coherent alignment. But I prefer not to.

@kimseniorb 2 ай бұрын

always prefer to do that manually. or using inphase to have a set of different snapshots for room mics etc. sometimes it really works to delay the room mics. the best workflow for me so far is to bring the close mics with the OH, and then align the room mics to some position which supports the snare and hopefully a kick. works like a charm every time

@michaelgehringmusic8440 2 ай бұрын

Auto Align 2 is great! I do my best to set up for each session. I will track myself before the client arrives and look at what Auto Align reveals. One of two things happens: either the changes are nominal and I leave things as they are or I see something is odd and make an adjustment. Either way by the time the client is listening to playback the drums sound huge.

@osnova_band 2 ай бұрын

Pale Moon Ranch! Tracked drums for our last single there. Great studio 🖤

@JayMaasRecording 2 ай бұрын

It’s amazing! We did all the drums for the new Love Letter there as well :)

@MFKitten 2 ай бұрын

Tip: redo this after doing EQ etc, to adjust for the phase differences introduced by the EQ itself.

@SZYPROD 2 ай бұрын

I have tried doing this, interestingly I do sense that some of the colour certain eq's introduce is slightly less noticeable. So I try not to do this if not necessary.

@Mix3dbyMark 2 ай бұрын

Sound Radix for the win

@NashvilleDave 2 ай бұрын

first time watching your channel. great succinct info, subbed

@AmagrasMUSIC 9 күн бұрын

Great explanation!

@kimseniorb 2 ай бұрын

also sound radix pi is good for basses or any other unison layered instruments our doubles that suffer from phase cancellation

@nickdenardo6479 2 ай бұрын

i was turned onto this a year or two ago. complete game changer. one question: what happens with the polarity flip on the bottom snare mic?

@andreisidro6544 2 ай бұрын

Hey man! Great video! Just a quick question I use Auto-Align (version 1) as well on my drums and I've noticed that I need to put it at the end of each plugin chain, because some plugins will give the track some delay. What that means is that using Auto-Align first just doesn't seem to work because the phase might change after I start putting plugins on the tracks. It happens a lot with Fab Filter plugins, but I've also experienced some delay with SoundToys and UAD plugins. Does this happen to you?

@JayMaasRecording 2 ай бұрын

This is actually a great point and it will definitely be important to use the natural and linear phase modes with fab filter. Cubase it pretty great with latency compensation provided the plugins are reporting back to the host correctly so I haven’t had trouble personally!

@golbeatspro 2 ай бұрын

Great Vid Sir. How this compares to Melda's MAutoAlign?

@mattelder4269 2 ай бұрын

This

@duppyoscar 2 ай бұрын

Hey Jay, I use autoalign myself, but I always have this doubt.... Do you do Autoalign before or after comping and quantizing?

@JayMaasRecording 2 ай бұрын

I think it depends on what type of quantizing. I typically don’t mess with any quantizing that uses warp or stretching, so therefore, I feel confident correcting phase as my first step But if I was reliant on stretching the audio, I would definitely do that. 1st consolidate my wave forms into new forms and THEN run auto align 2.

@morph-the-cat 2 ай бұрын

Your video is slightly out sync with the audio, the irony! (Unless it's my PC)

@JayMaasRecording 2 ай бұрын

The talking head parts or the screen cap? I’ve been using something in adobe Premier beta to clean up the voice audio, but I’ve been wondering if it is causing some syncing issues

@morph-the-cat 2 ай бұрын

@@JayMaasRecording Talking head bits, ever so slightly. Great work on the video though, I look forward to seeing more!

@CraiggaeShark 2 ай бұрын

Does this work on other multi-mic'd stuff like guitar cabs?

@JayMaasRecording 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@Mix3dbyMark 2 ай бұрын

IYKYK

@Kyle_Noonan 2 ай бұрын

Honestly, I think sometimes I feel insecure like I'm not doing enough as an engineer but the tools we have today just makes this stuff so easy.

@JayMaasRecording 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely. And to your point I think engineering was actually much simpler when everything was in the analog domain then during the initial switch of digital all of these crazy plug-ins came out and I think people started feeling like they needed to do SOMETHING to EVERYTHING. Nice to see things simplify a little

@Kyle_Noonan 2 ай бұрын

@@JayMaasRecording 100%. I think that's one of the biggest benefits I've received from taking courses like yours, is seeing how little needs to be done to well performed, well engineered tracks. I think unfortunately a lot of us cut our teeth working with less than stellar performances and it's so difficult trying to learn and troubleshoot like that. Kudos for sharing the knowledge Jay!!