Logic Sped Up Backing Track - how do I fix now?

[hellohopes]

Hello there,

I'm in the middle of a big dilemma, but hopefully it's not as big as I think it is!

We recorded a song with an artist the other day. We had a backing track which I gave to the studio engineer and he recorded the artist on Logic, where she could hear the backing track in her headphones.

Listening back to her vocals now though... she's singing much faster than the original backing track file. And that's because it was playing through her headphones really fast at the time (presumably Logic sped it up for some reason?). None of us noticed at the time that it was playing back faster than it should have been.

The engineer gave me the .wav files of her vocals. Now I'm trying to put her vocals and the backing track together, and of course they're completely different timings.

Is there any way I can fix this without re-recording either the artist or the backing??

 

[bouldersoundguy]

It sounds like you had your project set to 48kHz but your converters set to 44.1kHz. The audio is actually recorded at 44.1 but it's marked as 48 so at the studio the DAW played it at 48. So the vocal track got recorded at 48, and for some reason your DAW isn't reversing the process and playing it slower.

What I have done to correct that is open the audio file in Sound Forge and simply change the sample rate marker without altering the audio.