Just did this while reamping recently! REAPER has a built in JS plugin called Time Adjustment delay that allows you to make these small, sample-level moves in a plugin. Or you can just use Nudge. One thing I think a lot of people don't understand is that the phase shift introduced by a guitar amp or cab isn't linear across the frequency spectrum. Different frequencies are shifted different amounts in different directions, and this is different for any amp, cab, pedal, effect, etc. Focusing on getting the phase to sound right instead of being "in" is awesome advice, because Buster's teaching us to listen to what the different cabs are actually doing and how they interact.
I agree, the advice on getting the phase to sound right contextually rather than the tracks being perfectly "in" phase is a huge help. Thanks for expanding on this with the info on phase shift being non-linear from guitar amps/cabs.
You can do this with Precision Time Align, for me it's a little bit more practical. It's a great trick, especially when you're blending bass tracks, or trying to get a better relationship between drum mics... If you get this right, the mixing processing becomes a lot easier. Great tip!
It really helps if you do that in mono too. Cutting up the audio and using your nudge keys you can do those fine movements a lot easier in ProTools. It can help too coupled with a correlation meter.
Yep, I had a mix where the heavy single note riff I was playing wasn't sticking out enough so I duplicated, slapped on an AMP sin and slightly moved it so that it created a sick thickening effect of the highs and the lows. It was wild finding that out totally by accident!
The wild technique is so next level. I am going to have to experiment with that technique and I it's amazing how much the tone changes as you make those micro adjustments.
Intenté hacerlo en Reaper con JS Time Adjustment Delay, pero sin quitar el ojo de "Imager" de Izotope, esta bien el complemento. Quizas deba de trabajarlo mas. Es mas efectivo para mí por ahora el consejo de Buster. Cuando lo hagan revisen la correlación de face con el complemento y con la técnica manual. Aparte entrenas tu oído.
I think if you used two different DI inputs/boxes for left/right channels, you could avoid the phase issues. The issue is that you are going into the exact same audio interface or DI box and recording a dry signal. It's not like mic'ing a guitar cabinet where there's going to be slight variances in the air pressure changes every millisecond, it's a dead-dry DI signal, and then getting processed with the exact same amp sim and settings. It's a neat technique either way but it'd be cool to not be micro adjusting things because it could make it a bit to loose/sloppy sounding for guitarists into super fast picking/sweeping. This technique works in a breakdown/core kind of context with big open strings/ chugs and slow tempos, but maybe not great for like guitar solos and what not where extreme precision matters.
i used to do this but i move it by few samples only. mimic the 2 sm57 fizz killing technique where 1 sm57 is slightly further than the other. it reduce the fizz and at the same time create a boost around 700hz and 1khz
Okay but how does this combine with double tracking? Buster is only working on the R guitar in this video... so would he pan both R cabs to the R and then repeat the process for the L guitar? Could you just copy the phase changes from one side to the other?
Same performance. These aren't doubles for panning left and right, these are both labelled as the right ('R') guitar. Same guitar, same performance, two tones, both to be panned right.
Because the movements are so small it is not really noticable in terms of being "in time" but rather has an effect on the phase relation of the two tracks
@@MaximusAdonicus Lol. Drop E is low (only a half step under meshuggah tho), but there are plenty of other bands that player lower. Black Tongue does Drop D octave down, Glass Cloud/Tony Danza does Drop C octave down, After the Burial did some stuff in Drop A octave down I think, Drop E is kinda the standard "go-to" for 8 strings. There is a whole new world of doomy, groovy stuff out there to find!
