Here's a little mixing tip I stumbled upon recently that may be useful to some of you. I'm posting it here because it's not really a PGM software tip, more a general music tip.

I had a couple of bass tracks, and more recently a vocal track, that I had recorded to mix with some BiaB backing tracks. In each case the track sounded basically Ok but somehow not quite what I wanted. I tried all kinds of things such as FX and compression and nothing seemed to work.

By accident I pulled an entire bass track ahead by 5 or 6 milli seconds. Since I didn't think you can hear a difference that small I failed to hit 'undo' and when I played the mix I was astonished. Without any other change that small advance in the track made a world of difference. The mix just sparkled, for want of a better term.

So I started trying this on all tracks before wasting time with FX etc. It worked particularly well on a vocal track I recorded.

Now such a short time shift doesn't mean I was behind the beat, at least not audibly, since even 10ms doesn't cause problems with latency for a keyboard. So why does it make such a difference? I don't know. Do any of you guys and gals?

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