The amount of free education we get today from top engineers themselves is craaaaaaazy! Thanks so much Jay! Really appreciate what you do.
@fredfox38512 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.
@mattelder42692 ай бұрын
MAuto Align is on sale for $32. I have gotten some good results from this one. Definitely faster than manual.
@LukeDimondTV2 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!
@JayMaasRecording2 ай бұрын
Dude that’s so cool you found me! Hope things are well!
@atgred2 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.
@kimseniorb2 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
@michaelgehringmusic84402 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_band2 ай бұрын
Pale Moon Ranch! Tracked drums for our last single there. Great studio 🖤
@JayMaasRecording2 ай бұрын
It’s amazing! We did all the drums for the new Love Letter there as well :)
@MFKitten2 ай бұрын
Tip: redo this after doing EQ etc, to adjust for the phase differences introduced by the EQ itself.
@SZYPROD2 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.
@Mix3dbyMark2 ай бұрын
Sound Radix for the win
@NashvilleDave2 ай бұрын
first time watching your channel. great succinct info, subbed
@AmagrasMUSIC9 күн бұрын
Great explanation!
@kimseniorb2 ай бұрын
also sound radix pi is good for basses or any other unison layered instruments our doubles that suffer from phase cancellation
@nickdenardo64792 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?
@andreisidro65442 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?
@JayMaasRecording2 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!
@golbeatspro2 ай бұрын
Great Vid Sir. How this compares to Melda's MAutoAlign?
@mattelder42692 ай бұрын
This
@duppyoscar2 ай бұрын
Hey Jay, I use autoalign myself, but I always have this doubt.... Do you do Autoalign before or after comping and quantizing?
@JayMaasRecording2 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-cat2 ай бұрын
Your video is slightly out sync with the audio, the irony! (Unless it's my PC)
@JayMaasRecording2 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-cat2 ай бұрын
@@JayMaasRecording Talking head bits, ever so slightly. Great work on the video though, I look forward to seeing more!
@CraiggaeShark2 ай бұрын
Does this work on other multi-mic'd stuff like guitar cabs?
@JayMaasRecording2 ай бұрын
Absolutely!
@Mix3dbyMark2 ай бұрын
IYKYK
@Kyle_Noonan2 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.
@JayMaasRecording2 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_Noonan2 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!!
@UndertheMangoTree2 ай бұрын
Do the tom mics align with the snare still or to the overheads?
@Shred_Rocket2 ай бұрын
Typically for Auto Align 2, you would select the snare as the KEY, thus toms and the other tracks within the group will align.
@UndertheMangoTree2 ай бұрын
@@Shred_Rocket Exactly, so the tom tracks' snare bleed will align to the snare mic then.