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In any session, if you want to maintain absolute
time alignment across all tracks you should al-
ways compensate for signal processing delays.
Delay Compensation should be enabled during
playback and mixing so that all tracks’ outputs
are correctly time-aligned.
Using Delay Compensation
Pro Tools provides automatic Delay Compensa-
tion for managing DSP delays from plug-in and
hardware inserts, and mixer routing (bussing
and sends). With Delay Compensation enabled,
Pro Tools maintains phase coherent time align-
ment between tracks that have plug-ins with dif-
fering DSP delays, tracks with different mixing
paths, tracks that are split off and recombined
within the mixer, and tracks with hardware in-
serts.
To maintain phase coherent time alignment,
Delay Compensation should always be enabled
during playback and mixing. Delay Compensa-
tion should also be enabled in most recording
situations.
For more information on using Delay Com-
pensation, see the Pro Tools Reference
Guide (Help > Pro Tools Reference Guide).