Time Alignment Samples
Ok here we go…
The first sample is the snare and overheads. I’m flipping the delay in and out on the snare channel every 4 beats. The biggest place you’ll hear the difference is in the body of the drum. The non aligned signal sounds really thin compared to the time aligned one.
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The second sample is the entire kit with delay and without delay. In order to make it easier to compare as you’d like, I included these as separate files. First, the delayed and time aligned kit.
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Second, the non aligned kit.
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As you can see, maybe its subtle – I’m not sure how its translating across the web, MP3 compression, etc. In my room, the difference is pretty huge when you’re trying to get great individual tones and make everything play nice together.
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My name is Tim Corder. I started this blog in February 2007 because there were so few of what I considered good church audio resources available at the time for my team. Fast forward over 5 years and I'm still at it, sharing learnings about the journey towards making audio great. I go through periods where I post a lot and other times when I don't. I'm thankful for the opportunity to share it all with you. Thanks for visiting! 
Thanks Tim,
You can definitely hear everything fatten up a bit with the delay on this end I imagine it’s even better un-mp3ed in the room. Thanks for the sample it gives me one more thing to look forward to playing with when we finally make the digital jump.