question about track bouncing on tape

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In the tape days, drift was an issue, big time. Nowadays, I never worry about sync at all. So many ways to fix it. Cubase, for example can stretch and shrink your files to match sync points very simply. A drum snare is visible in the waveform, and you have a brass player playing stabs that are always a bit er, random. Cubase will grab those stabs and put the, where they should be. If you have a stereo mic, and somehow the left and right were recorded on different recorders running separately, then I dont think that is fixable as even tiny slippage in time moves the stereo image. Other than that, I have been able to cure dropped frames and other bizarre things.

I edit lots of video, and sync is never an issue. My standard mode is where audio is only shifted by the video frame rate, so camera audio and direct recorded audio is never spot on, but even at 25 frames a second, the non aligned audio is not an issue, being in effect, half a frame out at worst. I can use different modes to slip the audio to perfection, but it is rarely worth the effort
 
It might be better to stretch/squeeze the tracks rather than cut and shift them.
I was thinking the same thing. Put a transient marker at the beginning and and, grab all 4 tracks and stretch or squish them all at the same time to match up the DAW versions.
 
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