mjbphotos
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I recorded a scratch guitar track (to an EZ Drummer repeated beat for timing) and then did 3 electric guitar tracks last Sunday. Saved it, didn't open Reaper again until this evening when I was going to record an acoustic guitar track and then start vocals.
Got everything set up, tuned guitar to clip-on tuner, same guitar/tuner as used on the scratch track.
Start playback to check levels in headphones and something ain't right! Guitar is not even close to being in tune to the recorded tracks. Then as I listen I realize it is playing too slow. I ended up bumping the speed up to 1.0815 to get it more-or-less back to correct pitch.
Recorded acoustic guitar track (2 mic). Reset up for vocals, hit play and the new acoustic track is out of synch with everything else - WTF?
Rather than mess with nudging it around, I just muted it and started a vocal track to the scratch track.
Record first vocal take, save it, mute it, then do a second vocal track-take.
Go to do a 3rd and didn't mute the 2nd one and find it is not in synch - WTF again!
Next take I do, when I stop the recording, I notice that the waveform for the track I just did does not line up with the previous ones - in fact the last 4 phrases seem to be missing, but when I save the track, it all moves/shifts/appears.
Stupid me didn't think of just shutting Reaper down and restarting it. I just tried that and the whole thing was going at 8% too fast a speed and too high a pitch! I set the speed back down to 1.0 and had to nudge the acoustic track to the left a bunch. Vocals are probably all skewed too now.
Got everything set up, tuned guitar to clip-on tuner, same guitar/tuner as used on the scratch track.
Start playback to check levels in headphones and something ain't right! Guitar is not even close to being in tune to the recorded tracks. Then as I listen I realize it is playing too slow. I ended up bumping the speed up to 1.0815 to get it more-or-less back to correct pitch.
Recorded acoustic guitar track (2 mic). Reset up for vocals, hit play and the new acoustic track is out of synch with everything else - WTF?
Rather than mess with nudging it around, I just muted it and started a vocal track to the scratch track.
Record first vocal take, save it, mute it, then do a second vocal track-take.
Go to do a 3rd and didn't mute the 2nd one and find it is not in synch - WTF again!
Next take I do, when I stop the recording, I notice that the waveform for the track I just did does not line up with the previous ones - in fact the last 4 phrases seem to be missing, but when I save the track, it all moves/shifts/appears.
Stupid me didn't think of just shutting Reaper down and restarting it. I just tried that and the whole thing was going at 8% too fast a speed and too high a pitch! I set the speed back down to 1.0 and had to nudge the acoustic track to the left a bunch. Vocals are probably all skewed too now.
yesterday I opened the project & they were all back in the wrong place??,, yet when I run a backup file from earlier they are in the correct place (the gtr from outer limits plays here! 
it mustaf been something I did!,nothing new there!
