Topic: How to mix 2-3 different AUD-Sources?

[pdastoor]

I would do all the lining up in audacity, then if you need to clean up the sound or reduce bass or hiss or EQ then do that in Adobe Audition or if you want a free software then Nero Wav Editor can do it too. Once you are pleased with the sound, then you can export them in Audacity to .wav and it will put all the files into one file. You can use Mix and Render as well but that takes more time, saving it directly is much faster. This is the fastest way for me to do it

[Sloan Simpson]

Reaper

[blg]

For alignment, I use the spectral view in Audition.

[hoserama]

For alignment, I use the spectral view in Audition.

That'll work for alignment with audience sources, but do you do the math to resample them to align? Or do you just cut and realign periodically.

[blg]

For alignment, I use the spectral view in Audition.

That'll work for alignment with audience sources, but do you do the math to resample them to align? Or do you just cut and realign periodically.

I do the math.

[page]

I do the math.

IMHO, this is the only acceptable reply if you have two sources that aren't clocked together.

[hoserama]

You'd be amazed at how many people don't do the math. They'll either make cuts every so often (10-15 minutes) and realign, or they have bad enough ears that they align once and say "It's perfect!"

I had one U2 recording I released, an IEM feed, and somebody tried to time align that with a really good audience recording. I had already done this, but just hadn't released it. During one song in the audience recording, there was a half-second data packet drop from an SD card skip, or something like that. I had to zero in and identify it, and make the appropriate offset. The other dude just aligned it once and said "oh it aligned perfectly! it sounds so good!"

Thankfully he doesn't destroy recordings anymore and has basically disappeared online.