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I did some drum tracking on a project today. It's a mid-tempo thing and I wanted to do a bit of super slow release compression to bring some cymbal crashes up, like a Beatley thing. So I auditioned a few hardware comps and get something cool happening in parallel on the console. I created a new track in PT and when I recorded the compressor return it was completely phasey and I can't understand why. I had delay compensation checked, I tried with and without delay comp and it was the same. Low latency monitoring both on or off didn't make a difference.
What am I missing? I can record mic signals and they are in time with the tracks I received from my client, but a parallel comp, going out of the same console busses as the mics are late and phasey. I'm completely baffled.
2nd August 2022 Gear AddictI did some drum tracking on a project today. It's a mid-tempo thing and I wanted to do a bit of super slow release compression to bring some cymbal crashes up, like a Beatley thing. So I auditioned a few hardware comps and get something cool happening in parallel on the console. I created a new track in PT and when I recorded the compressor return it was completely phasey and I can't understand why. I had delay compensation checked, I tried with and without delay comp and it was the same. Low latency monitoring both on or off didn't make a difference.
What am I missing? I can record mic signals and they are in time with the tracks I received from my client, but a parallel comp, going out of the same console busses as the mics are late and phasey. I'm completely baffled.
How were you sending the signal out to the console and back? As far as I know, using Hardware Inserts is the only way to get things properly compensated with Delay Compensation. Also, only Avid DigiLink converters (192, HD I/O, Omni) automatically compensate for the DA/AD roundtrip latency. Third party converters (including MTRX & MTRX Studio) need to have their converter latencies manually entered into the Hardware Insert offset field in the I/O Setup. Any those latencies change with sample rate.