Your Ticket to Fatter Drums and Guitars
NOTE: This product requires an iLok for authorization. Fact: you introduce phasing every time you place multiple microphones near a single source. Blended together, these tiny aberrations in arrival time cause your drums, guitars, and vocals to sound thin and hollow. The Eventide Precision Time Align plug-in helps synchronize tracks down to 1/64 of a sample for a fuller, punchier, more focused sound. The Precision Time Align also simplifies blending outboard-processed signals with recorded takes and will make you confident your kick and snare tracks are firing at the same time. Note: This is a specially priced academic version. Call your Sales Engineer for details. Why not just slide tracks around in my DAW? There are two reasons this can be a bad idea. The first is accuracy. Even at max magnification, your DAW probably only lets you slide tracks sample by sample. The Eventide Precision Time Align is accurate down to 1/64 of a sample. At 44.1kHz, that's 0.0004 (four ten-thousandths) of a millisecond! The next reason is permanency. Shifting around tracks can cause more problems than it fixes. So unless you have a DAW that lets you revert tracks to their original positions, you may run into trouble as your project progresses. Take it from Sweetwater: if you have to align tracks, you're much better off doing it with the capable Eventide Precision Time Align plug-in.
Eventide Precision Time Align Plug-in Features:
- Minimizes phasing issues between 2 mics
- Makes drums fatter, guitar amps punchier, and vocals more focused
- Great for blending re-amped/outboard-processed signals with dry takes
- More accurate and less risky than sliding tracks in your DAW
- Coarse and Fine sliders let you use your ears
- Accurate down to 1/64 of a sample (0.0004 ms)
- English imperial and metric units of distance
- Compare button lets you A/B your last 2 settings
- Phase Invert switch flips polarity — great for snare bottom mics
- AAX2, VST, AU formats
- iLok account required; iLok dongle not required