Elastic Audio - Using DI as guide track to tighten up guitar

[automatic8]

Was seeing if anyone out here knew of a good way to tighten up guitar tracks with elastic audio using the DI track as guide for warp markers.

As of right now I have the two tracks grouped. One being my main distorted guitar track and the other a clean DI. The DI has all the markers right to the transient so I would like to use that to manipulate both tracks.

When I hold shift and click on the DI tracks marker to make a boundary, the same marker goes right below to my distorted guitar track...Great!!

However, it eventually gets very wonky and starts placing them in other spots on the distorted track and I can no longer adjust both simultaneously.

I can't imagine I am the first trying to use this method so I guess my question is....what is the proper set up for this?

Hope this makes sense. Look forward to hearing some ideas. Thanks!

[albee1952]

2 things come to mind here.
#1-the clean DI track will have lots of WARP lines that won't show on the distorted track, which means you must be careful when you move anything by removing many of the marker lines that you don't need(I know this sounds a bit odd, but think about it a bit and hopefully it will start to make sense).
#2-Elastic Audio can(and all to often will) make things sound awful with burgling artifacts. I find the best results by using the X-Form option. The downside of this is that it renders every change, which takes audio off-line for a while, depending on the length of the clip. The solution for this is to find places to make clip separations so that you work on a clip that fits the screen(so you don't have to render all the audio, just what is on the screen).
Hope this helps

[automatic8]

Thank you for the suggestion here. I will definitely give X form a shot.

However, I think elastic audio is just better on certain sources. Guitar not being one of them. I think the best way is to just get takes tight as possible and nudge the track as needed with crossfades.

[skylar_battles]

The principle is the same as I explain here: Procedure for Maintaining Phase-Coherence - Multi-Mic (Drum Kit) - Elastic Audio

I believe this is how you would approach it so that the Warp/Analysis Markers are always and only derived from the DI track, and edits on the distorted track follow suit. Even though Elastic Audio needs to be enabled for this to work, you need to first delete the analysis markers on the distorted track to eliminate conflicting markers, and then un-suspend groups before you start working. Check out the linked post!