- Oct 26, 2009
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Hey there. So, lately I've been recording non stop. I feel like I've been really locking down on the mixing/tone side of stuff. But recently I came across a REALLY interesting...errmm... 'Problem'?
I recorded a little clip of a song just for this topic.
My method of recording THIS clip is I played some of the chugs half speed, put a slice on both sides of every note, omitted the second half of the note, and then snapped to the grid... Note that I only did this for the purpose of this topic. I don't typically do stuff that way.
Here's my guitar signal:
Guitar-->Pod X3 live--->USB--->Compuer
And then I have the input of each guitar track set as "Tone 1 Dry", which should mean that I'm recording the DRY signal, right?
When I snap everything to the grid, it looks good. Like this:
This is what it sounds like as two guitar DI tracks, and a drum track:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4985090/TopicQuestion/audio/TopicFullspeed.mp3
Looks/Sounds pretty precise right?
HOWEVER. When I slow the project down, just to check the precision of the snapping and all of that, is sounds like this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4985090/TopicQuestion/audio/TopicSlow.mp3
Clearly, the guitar panned to the right is playing before the guitar on the left on almost every beat. When I realized this I said to myself "Okay, when slicing the notes, I must've not taken my time to slice the notes correctly at the beginning of each note. In other words, when slicing the notes, I must've consistently sliced a little bit too far to the left of each note on one of the tracks.
But when I zoomed into the tracks, I saw that they were all pretty well sliced:
It looks fine! So, I thought maybe there was some sort of latency in the actual DAW.
But then, I zoomed in even more and saw waves like this:
I'm getting confused here. I understand that it's not going to be one huge peak wave and then fade out nicely on it's own, but why is there that initial peak, and then the actual note that sings through? Is that just my pick hitting each individual string?
Is it Possible that my Pod is F#cking each note up? Should I even be using the Pod as my "DI"?
Any help will be AWESOME!
-Nick
I recorded a little clip of a song just for this topic.
My method of recording THIS clip is I played some of the chugs half speed, put a slice on both sides of every note, omitted the second half of the note, and then snapped to the grid... Note that I only did this for the purpose of this topic. I don't typically do stuff that way.
Here's my guitar signal:
Guitar-->Pod X3 live--->USB--->Compuer
And then I have the input of each guitar track set as "Tone 1 Dry", which should mean that I'm recording the DRY signal, right?
When I snap everything to the grid, it looks good. Like this:
This is what it sounds like as two guitar DI tracks, and a drum track:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4985090/TopicQuestion/audio/TopicFullspeed.mp3
Looks/Sounds pretty precise right?
HOWEVER. When I slow the project down, just to check the precision of the snapping and all of that, is sounds like this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4985090/TopicQuestion/audio/TopicSlow.mp3
Clearly, the guitar panned to the right is playing before the guitar on the left on almost every beat. When I realized this I said to myself "Okay, when slicing the notes, I must've not taken my time to slice the notes correctly at the beginning of each note. In other words, when slicing the notes, I must've consistently sliced a little bit too far to the left of each note on one of the tracks.
But when I zoomed into the tracks, I saw that they were all pretty well sliced:
It looks fine! So, I thought maybe there was some sort of latency in the actual DAW.
But then, I zoomed in even more and saw waves like this:
I'm getting confused here. I understand that it's not going to be one huge peak wave and then fade out nicely on it's own, but why is there that initial peak, and then the actual note that sings through? Is that just my pick hitting each individual string?
Is it Possible that my Pod is F#cking each note up? Should I even be using the Pod as my "DI"?
Any help will be AWESOME!
-Nick
