better sounding drums in 1 click | AUTO-ALIGN 2

[@corybergeronrecordings]

Have you been using the latest version of Auto-Align?

[@neptunejeff970]

no

[@minorchordstudio]

Many years ago I'd have to use digital delays to time align signals before hitting tape, use our ears and watch a phase meter, was such a tedious process, can't believe how awesome this is!

[@ilikecorn500]

This is soooooo cool but it costs as much as my DAW lol

[@EricBadderMusic]

More of these for easy mixing! Great find!

[@fredfox3851]

Nearly $400.00 is a lot of money! I think manually aligning the overheads to the snare top, and letting the other mics remain as they are, will suffice in most instances.

[@damolin77]

Awesome thank you Cory.

[@RedlightBlue]

This thumbnail felt like a jump scare

[@corybergeronrecordings]

hope it scares people into having better sounding drums

[@taylorharris7213]

It’s just a phase

[@MattnUska]

🤣

[@RemyRAD]

I don't know Sonny boy? This really ain't right. It's different. That's for sure. Not a difference I personally would want. I like the bypass version best. Here's why. While you want to align all the peaks together. They really aren't supposed to be. Our brain can distinguish these, micro timing differentials. In the form of, generally, comb filtering. But this gives us these minute timing differentials. That allow our brain to, take advantage of these, timing filters. Because that's what it is. I've done this in the past, over the years. I've also used, strictly, linear phase EQ. Instead of the, phase variable EQ. We are mostly using from the beginning of time. But the two are very different. And you'd think, you would want, linear phase EQ on everything! But you really don't. Because it really ends up sounding, kind of bizarre. Your brain misses those phase timing errors. Good old-fashioned equalizers. Of any variety. But when you take away that for linear. I did not find it enjoyable. It kind of gave me the creeps. And I never bothered with that, again. Now think what you want to. But I also know. There has been a fundamental error made. By 99% of all the, electrical engineers and acoustic engineers, recording engineers, PA engineers, et al. It's a mistake everybody has gotten together on. Including their, college degrees. They can prove they are absolutely right. They have test. Have mathematical formulas. They have textbooks. And they are so convinced. They are right. That they can prove. They are right. And that Jesus is alive and pigs fly. Okey-dokey then. I've seen those TV preachers also. They teach audio engineering at the University level. They can prove they are right. Even when their speakers are wired backwards together. Nobody understands what that means. They think it means phase. It does not. It means polarity. Polarity is not phase. Phase is not polarity. But they are that. Together and separate. One has to do with small voltages and timing errors. The other is more brute force. To move large quantities of air. From heavy, cardboard and clay speaker cones. And which way should they be moving, on the initial downbeat? Everybody gets this answer right. While wiring both of their speakers, backwards from that. But convinced they are right. I can prove they are wrong. You only have to understand what is occurring. So what's happened here. When you get the wiring correct as indicated by the, amplifier manufacturer and speaker company. Instructions. You definitely got it right. In a perfectly, 180 degree opposite way. With both speakers. They are not out of phase to each other. They are in phase to each other. But you have yours in phase in, Negative Absolute Polarity, together. And that's where everybody gets this wrong. Because? All things being equal. All things being perfect. You really don't want your speakers. To mimic. The initial directions of the microphone diaphragm. When it's struck by a, loud sores, sound pressure wave blast. And the sound compresses the diaphragm of the microphone, inwards. Into the body of the microphone. Before it springs back outward into its resting position. And you really don't want your speakers to do it that way. That's reverse motion. This has all come about. When people tell manufacturers what they want. But they really don't understand the actual process. Back upstream at the input. And what's going on at the microphone? What is the microphone diaphragm doing when a sound pressure wave smashes into it? It is certainly not defying the laws of physics. To meet that sound pressure wave blast. And protrude outward into the sound pressure wave blast. As the sound pressure wave hits the diaphragm. Physics does not work that way. And no one but no one. Has thought this through correctly except for, Jimmy Lansing, a.k.a., JBL Speaker Co. They figured this out on or before 1968. I verified it by 1978 and ever since. And everybody gets this wrong. It's mindless. It's funny. But it's really not funny. As,, Professionals. This is of the utmost embarrassment. It's major egg on face time. With 99% of everybody. It's kind of funny. I don't think it's funny. But it is kind of. When you realize everybody has gotten this wrong and believes in this other nonsensical religion of their own. Convinced. They've got a direct line to the great Audio God. And they are actually knocking at the wrong door. They have been skewed by a satanic skew ball construct of out of phase blah blah nonsense garbage bullshit. And so I find the phase cancellations of the utmost importance. For my brain to be able to, listen very deeply. Into a mix. With the proper timing cues my brain needs to accept and process. Not with someone else's idea of pseudo-time alignment. That is not time alignment. That is excessive playing with stupid software and believing you are correct. You are not. I mean if my colleagues and friends. I have known and worked with, worked around or worked for. The likes of people like, name dropping here. George Massenburg and Bob Clearmountain. I think this skews the sense of direction and space. I believe they would feel that also. And since I'm one of these engineers. That has corrected monitoring issues. In the control rooms that these guys worked in. I think you are having far too much fun. Playing video games with audio software. And believe you're doing God's work. And perhaps you are. But I don't want to hear a church service in phase timing. I want to hear some, ROCK 'N' ROLL & ROCKING JAZZ, ROCKING BLUES, ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE.. And Dudley do right bringing up the rear of the horse. Of course. And so there is an audible difference. That we can all hear. That doesn't mean it's right. You have taken all of the timing differentials in the space of the beyond signature, away. Sure, it's got a fatter low-end. That now feels and sounds a bit, over obese. Like it can't move well, anymore. It sounds like it has gout. And I don't think that's funny. You see you may line up all of those peaks together. But now you have skewed all of the proper timing errors from sonic reflective surfaces. Whose ambient reverb signature will be not timed with the peaks. So you are causing comb filtering to the acoustic signature. To keep the peaks timed together. Yeah why? Now you have a big bloated tubby, not tight, nondescript, low end. The does not properly correlate in time with the field. It's accurate but now missing ambient timing cues due to the smearing of time. And so apparently. You are not quite tuned into that perception, yet. It can be an acquired perception. When you have gone virtually deaf. From listening to speakers all sucking away from you. And thinking that sounds correct. Because somebody told you what you are hearing is correct. At waiting to hear your response. Because they don't know what they are hearing. That's why they tell you what you are hearing. To see what your response is? Hoping they didn't get it wrong? Because they don't know what they are hearing? Somebody told them what they are hearing. They don't know what they are hearing? They been told Jesus is alive. Nobody questions that. Has anybody seen where he is? Was he on TV with Joey O'Steen again? Did he have dinner with Joyce Myers, again? Apparently he gets around and leaves without paying the bill. Something about not having to be taxed by anything? Yeah but? You left your dates to pay for dinner. Just because she told you she wanted an, Abortion. That it wasn't expensive. And the girls got to do what a girls got to do. How do men have any say over that they are not women. How do boys know what it feels like to be a different species? Called female. They can't. Anymore than you know how an orangutan feels. When you tell them. Yes, we have no bananas. And do you think that orangutan is still going to be, your friend? Well you are wrong! And I can prove it! Quick wears a monkey? You would look good perpetrating a monkey. Mike, Peter, Davey, Mickey. And only one left. I have have a coconut sandwich with banana butter. RemyRAD

[@ababilashari9970]

you know what how the time aligned version is better? easier to mix sit down old man

[@corybergeronrecordings]

this made my morning, thank you

[@taylorharris7213]

Danggggg

[@TransistorLSD]

Hey, i know what you mean. That's why i usually don't align the drum room mics to the other mics. Overheads & closemics i do align though, that way i don't have to EQ the lowend much, just brighten the highs.