I sliced the tracks as they were into my DAW and they don't line up or start at teh same time like they do in FTM. I'm spending a lot of time frying to get the vocals lined up so they come in at the right time. I set the bit rate and tempo before I dragged in each track and they were all over the place. anybody else have this problem? I had it with another bunch of stems on a previous FTM also.

I like th sheen on the vocals but I might have gone too far on the high end. What do you think. I need some feedback so let's listen to each others' FTM masters from this month https://s.disco.ac/bupjvdxamfdw

So what was your "AHA" moment? Learned something crucial??????

I've been doing some research on the topic listed above and wondering if there is a preference? From what I found, what we learned was the automatic normalizing function found in Logic, but it sounds like gain staging can be a separate process done to each track. Am I understanding that correctly, or is it really so simple as using the normalize function?

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