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Originally Posted by scribe  Hi,
I think my last post should of read 'time alignment' not 'time correction'
Anyways.....
Thanks for the reply Tony. I haven't used sonar and not real sure what you mean about a studio kit.
I take great care placing my mics around a kit and check phasing via my analog desk.
I guess what I am getting at is, after you have recorded the drums do you line up each instrument as to where it is in the overhead tracks by moving the wave forms.
For a mic under the snare, would you line up that mic with the top mic then both of them with the overheads??
For that matter, what about bass mics and d.i. Should we line up the D.I to the mic or round the other way or doesnt it matter.
Am I really complicating things for myself?? |
Sorry about that, but I think moving the waveforms with respect to each other can have a phasing effect as well.
What I mean about studio kit, is that I have a set of drums in the studio all mic'ed up and they don't move if they don't have to. Of course, depending on the drummer, song style, etc things need to be tweaked. And of course, many drummers like to bring their own kit, which means I need to start the process all over again.
Consider the rule of thumb that 1msec equals about 1 foot. So if you have your kick mic about 1 foot from the front of the kick then in theory you have a 1msec delay, which you probably won't notice, but if you did, it would have a sense of fullness to it with a 1msec delay between the kick and DI'ed bass.