User Guide

Appendix – Routing and Usage Examples
All example
s are made using Pro Tools.
Example 1 – Aligning Two Mono Tracks Using Sidechain
Watch the video: http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=11963
This example uses two t
racks, bass amp and bass DI.
 Open the InPhase Mono component on the bass amp track

Send the bass DI track t
o Bus 1

Assign the InPhase sidechain key in
put to receive from Bus 1.

Click Captur
e and play a short loop.

Once the capture is complete, you’ll see the bass amp wave
form in the Alpha
section d
isplay and the bass DI in the Sidechain (SC) section
display.

In the monitor section, click Mono Mix to monitor both tracks summed to
mono.
 On the Waves System Bar, click Copy A>B to toggle between A, the processed
signal, and
B, the unprocessed sign
al.

Set the marker to the beginning of a note with a clear start p
oint.

Zoom in to get a good look at the note’s first transient, which
will be our sync
point.

Set the marker to the zero cross point of the bass DI track in
the SC section.

Use the Alpha section delay control to align the zero crossing of the Alp
ha
waveform to the SC section, or grab
the waveform to mo
ve it manually.
 Look at the correlation meter and make sure you’re on the blue, positive side of
the meter.

Play back your loop and, using the A-B setup, to
ggle between the processed and
unprocesse
d signals to make sure track alignme
nt has improved.

If you experience energy loss in a certain frequency range a result of the
delay
adjustment, turn on the first phase sh
ift filter by clicking on the
Shelf or Bell
toggle, then
sweep to find the spot where the desired frequen
cy returns.
 Toggle between A and B to make sure the summing of the two tracks is
improved.

If needed, adjust a second frequency range using the second phase shif
t filter.

Toggle between A and B to hear the improvement
.
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