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Sandrine Willert
Ever since getting a very patient and life-changing call from mastering engineer John Golden [Tape Op #121], where he explained that my snare drum and overhead mics on many of my mixes were out of phase, I've been a stickler for keeping phase and polarity relationships intact, especially on drums. Initially, I used the original Auto-Align completely wrong. Next I used it in a really backwards way. Then I watched some guy's simple YouTube tutorial, and realized his method made a lot more sense (kick inside mic informs overheads, then overheads send new info to snare, toms, etc.). This cascading plug-in to plug-in chain worked but was a major pain to use. To be honest, I had recently stopped using it altogether and was working with polarity flipping only, just like my old console mixes off tape.
With the updated Auto-Align 2, Sound Radix has stripped all that out, built a much stronger device, and made all of our lives much easier in the studio. And, oh yeah, they also handed us a smart tool that can make everything sound much better. In order to do this, Auto-Align 2 analyzes and alters the waveform's interactions in a number of ways. There's simple polarity inversion or not; the old "phase" or "pol" button on a console. There's temporal nudging, either forward or backwards in time to tiny degrees in order for sounds to avoid cancelling each other out, or smear in more subtle ways. And there's also Spectral Phase Optimization; a process wherein "all pass" filters allow changes in polarity on certain frequency bands. This can be a lifesaver with many bleed-heavy tracking sessions, where Auto-Align 2's time offsets, polarity reversals, and phase rotations will fix the issues.
We can also manually designate a certain channel as the Key Time Track, where it sets the stage for initial polarity. I noticed this and used it when I had drum tracks where one of the three snare mics kept winning the Key Time Track prize, but I wanted the kick mic to take the lead on phase relationships.
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