Hey everyone I'm Tommy and this is my first post. This forum is freaking awesome by the way. I have a rather in-depth question and am rather lost and I know someone here knows the answer! I used "search" already.
So, I am using Protools with a Tascam 38 reel to reel for recording a combo of some digital/analogue sounds. I recently recorded a band and used Protools to track some guitars, hit hat and symbols and the Tascam to track the kick, snare, two overheads and bass. In the headphone mix for the band I sent a submix of the tape drums/bass through Protools using the tape outs to a mixer that splits the signal between monitoring and recording (Teac Model 5). I was able to do this WHILE recording the individual kick, snare, overheads and bass to tape to mix separately as individual tracks later. I of course did this so the band would have reference of the tape's rhythm tracks during tracking. After the song was over I imported the 5 separate tape tracks back in to Protools and lined the beginning of the tape tracks with the Protools submix of the drums/bass with the idea that I could zoom in to a precise transient in the waveform and align the tape tracks with the Protools stuff. I was able to line up perfectly the imported tape drums/bass with the Protools submix and it sounded in-sync with the rest of the audio. However, after a few measures I noticed the imported tape tracks became slightly out of phase sounding with the reference in Protools. Then at irregular times throughout the song the imported tape/Protools stuff alligned again for a few measures, then got out of sync/phase again! I zoomed in SUPER CLOSE and made sure the waveforms were aligned exactly right and still the issue is happening. WHY!!!? Anyone know what could cause this imported tape audio to become impossible to align with the same exact same track in Protools?
So, I am using Protools with a Tascam 38 reel to reel for recording a combo of some digital/analogue sounds. I recently recorded a band and used Protools to track some guitars, hit hat and symbols and the Tascam to track the kick, snare, two overheads and bass. In the headphone mix for the band I sent a submix of the tape drums/bass through Protools using the tape outs to a mixer that splits the signal between monitoring and recording (Teac Model 5). I was able to do this WHILE recording the individual kick, snare, overheads and bass to tape to mix separately as individual tracks later. I of course did this so the band would have reference of the tape's rhythm tracks during tracking. After the song was over I imported the 5 separate tape tracks back in to Protools and lined the beginning of the tape tracks with the Protools submix of the drums/bass with the idea that I could zoom in to a precise transient in the waveform and align the tape tracks with the Protools stuff. I was able to line up perfectly the imported tape drums/bass with the Protools submix and it sounded in-sync with the rest of the audio. However, after a few measures I noticed the imported tape tracks became slightly out of phase sounding with the reference in Protools. Then at irregular times throughout the song the imported tape/Protools stuff alligned again for a few measures, then got out of sync/phase again! I zoomed in SUPER CLOSE and made sure the waveforms were aligned exactly right and still the issue is happening. WHY!!!? Anyone know what could cause this imported tape audio to become impossible to align with the same exact same track in Protools?