Delay Compensation Issue with Pro Tools le 8

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I have just recently learned about delay compensation. Now I know why my mixes never sounded right! OK so I am using Pro Tools le 8 and it does not have ADC so I have to do it manually. I have seen some videos saying to use the TimeAdjuster plugin to compensate. So I know how to look at the delay in the volume area of the track, so it tells me which one has the most delay. I from there would then insert a TimeAdjuster plugin on all the other tracks and set it so they are all the same as the track with the highest delay. OK I tried that but my tracks still sounded off. Let me give you all the breakdown of the tracks.


I am using 12 total. 4 mono audio tracks,1 click,1 master,2 stereo virtual instruments,and 4 stereo effects buses. Out of the 12, 6 are showing delay. 3 of the audio tracks (all using Guitar Rig 4)are showing a delay of 64. The click is showing a delay of 10 as well as 1 of the virtual instruments(keyboards) is showing a delay of 10. My other virtual instrument (drum program) is the highest at 74. So how should I set my tracks with TimeAdjuster?
 
Hi.
I've always been of the opinion that this does not matter unless you're dealing with parallel effects.

If you have a raw track outputting to mains and also sending to a compression aux, the compressor will introduce a delay against the raw.
You'll get phase issues here because the source is identical.
The problem is that putting a time adjuster on the audio track wont fix the issue, because your send is post insert.
That'll delay everything equally.

ADC seems to introduce a delay on the audio track, post send.

A way to deal with it would be to have your raw audio track and set the output to none.
Now set up (what would have been) your parallel aux with a compressor that introduces delay.
Now, duplicate that aux and bypass the comp on the copy.
You could replace it with a time adjuster set to the appropriate delay, if you want.



Regarding making every track equal, I think there'd be an argument if you were dealing with synths and midi, but with recorded audio there's so much natural sway around a beat that being precise about delay compensation isn't likely to be noticed.
 
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