In this video I want to show you how to use the delay suggestion
tool to quickly get some ideas about how to improve your main sub alignment so in
the last video we saw that we could use perfect addition trace and live
addition trace to basically just give us apply this as hey buddy sometimes wrong
here in this pink trades this is what you should be getting this yellow trace
is what you are getting now because of your face problems what can we do about
this well we can just start adding with delay and playing with things until we
make the pictures match and we make the yellow line line up with the pink line
and that's great but there's another cool tool in set life called the delay
suggestion tool and before I use that you decide on what range of frequencies
I want to get a suggestion for now in previous videos we already decided that
it's 80 to 125 so go back and watch those videos if you haven't seen those
already but that's what I'm gonna do so basically I just need to put my cursor
on 80 then I'm gonna press the D key and then move my cursor to the right until I
get to 125 and now I press the D key again to release it if that doesn't work
for you sometimes you press the D key and you
start dragging out and then it drags from the middle instead of from one side
over the other if that happens to you you change that here this drop down menu
latched cursor is border instead of latch cursor is Center
frequency okay okay so we've identified the area here
and then the next thing I need to do is just under delay suggestion make sure
that I have to correct fixed frequency which in my case is this quick trace
right here that I'm where I measured the sub earlier okay so select fix trace
sub and then it's gonna give me the suggestion here
700 no 7.6 milliseconds and a phase inversion that's way more time than 2.6
milliseconds which is what and 2.7 which is what we calculated in the last video
that seems like a lot one smart thing to do if you get these kind of results is
to click on this window just left click and you'll see some more options here so
it says hey if you don't want to do that polarity inversion then you can just do
two points at 7 milliseconds nothing ok that makes a lot of sense this is what I
discovered before on my own right but if you want an even better result it thinks
that's why it's called the suggestion tool use it inversion and six point six
seven point six milliseconds let's test these to see which actually gives us the
best result so first let's try 2.7 milliseconds
and let's take the better
that looks pretty perfect to me I mean this yellow trace is right on top of
this pink trace now I don't see how it can get much better than that but let's
save this to a quick trace so we can make a comparison later so I click on
additional signals copy add trace to quick trace and we'll put it in this
very last one the kind of pink color and I'll just hide it for now now let's try
this one seven point six seven point six milliseconds and the polarity
lady
go
okay to me that looks almost exactly the same but I did see down here in the face
that it moved a little bit closer let's see what there is how the results
compare so again copying to another quick trace now let's hide everything
reset this get rid of this hide these two let's look at both of these and
let's just zoom in on the area that we care about here okay super close right
here's the first one we did that's 2.7 milliseconds or whatever and then use
one with 7.6 milliseconds in the polarity inversion what did we get out
of that well we got a tiny bit more addition here but keep in mind this is
like I don't know point 3 decibel because if I offset it by one decibel if
I offset it by one decibel that's a pretty obvious change but here on top of
here we've got a tiny bit more here we've got a little bit less here and we
got less here but this is outside of the range at that point right yeah so we're
only going up to 125 so we're only looking in this area to me this is
negligible so there's no really need and adding like three times as much delay
for whatever negligible effects we've got here so just keep in mind the delay
suggestion tool is very powerful but you should use it as a suggestion and the
awesome thing is that it gave us multiple suggestions not just one thing
to try so that's how you use the delay suggestion tool INSAT live to help you
quickly get some suggestions for how to get a better combination between your
main and yourself and then the next video I'm going to take a quick look at
virtual time shift sound design