[scottgreiner]

Oh golly - big can of worms. There are many possible ways to do this depending on what outcome you'd like. I like to catch everything up to, and including the hardware insert; and leave everything after it in place. Makes recalls easy and doesn't lock me in too much.

If you leave ADC on, your printed tracks will be ahead by whatever the round trip conversion is plus the plugin delay from any plugins before the insert. Without ADC, they'll be behind. There's a one sample difference between fully disabling ADC in the menu, and disabling just the single channel with control/command click...

Personally I find all this to be too much to chase. I just zoom in, make a hard DC tick with the pecil tool in the original track. Then I use this to re-align the "frozen" track. Multi-mic'd stuff is more subjective (like a kick drum that's been processed with outboard). Sometimes the "frozen" track just doesn't sit the same as the the original...

Phase is a b*tch isn't it?