Musicians can be good, real good, but even the best musicians can slip up on a track. Whether it be a drum hit off tempo or a bass note that drags a little to long all your problems can be fixed thanks to the magic of digital audio. I used these two resources to familiarize myself with the process of elastic audio and I suggest you view them to if you don’t have the fondest idea of what I’m talking about, before you read on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_VufsUuiRc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWhHj052J60
Now that you have a better idea of the process you can see why it can be so crucial when mixing in post to be able to fix the mistakes on the recording. Even if its a minor detail it is the precision all engineers strive for when creating a final mix.
In my mix I utilized elastic audio on my kick track to clean up the patterns on the double kick.
You can see all the lines are where I made adjustments to the transients. It was a lot of minor clean ups but it made a major difference in the end.
Read my next blog post where I use the Slate Trigger 2 plug-in to change the tone of my kick and snare.