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Example 4 – Aligning a Stereo Track to a Sidechain Offline
Watch the video: http://www.waves.com/content.aspx?id=11966
This example uses an o
verheads track which we will align to the snare top track.

Find a short overheads loop which contains a sn
are hit.
 From the offline menu(AudioSuite), select InPhase Stereo.

Set the InPhase side
chain key input to receive from the snare top track.

In the Alpha section process pull down menu, select CH1/2, which will f
orce the
SideCh to the Beta section.
 On the Waves System Bar, click Copy A>B to toggle between A, the processed
signal, and
B, the unprocessed sign
al.

Click captur
e and play the loop you selected.

Set the marker to the beginning of a
snare hit.

Zoom in to get a good look at the note’s first transient, which
will be our sync
point.

Set the marker to the peak point of the first transient on the snare track in
the
Beta section.

Grab the waveform and move it manually, or use the Alpha section delay
control
to align the
zero crossing of the Alpha section t
o the Beta section.

Look at the correlation
meter and make sure the value has improved toward the
blue, posit
ive 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 hear that some of the snare’s body has disappeared, turn on the first
phase shift f
ilter, select the bell shap
e with a narrow Q setting, and sweep to find
a spot that b
rings back the missing frequencies.
 Toggle between A and B to make sure the summing of the two tracks
is
improved.
 To bring back any mids/high mids that have also disappeared, turn on the
second pha
se shift filter and sweep to find a spot that brings
back the missing
frequencies.

Toggle between A and B to hear the improvement
.
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