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Re-mastering tracks moves the beat grid

Hi guys,

I have started to go back and remaster some of my old vinyl rips I have from many moons ago.

A simple process of applying a limiter to pull down the high end peaks then amplifying the audio by around 2dbs making it sound fuller and re-exporting the audio, making the sound more inline with todays digital downloads. The thing to remember here is that I do NOT edit the file length in anyway.

I then reopen recordbox and load one of the tracks, and the whole beatgrid has moved in relation to the track transients. This means all my cue and memory points are in the wrong place and I have to replace them all, it's a pain in the ass!

Does anyone know why this is happening, or is it just a bug within recordbox?

TY

Samuel Alexander Spratt Answered

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If you edit the data, it's no surprise the beat grid no longer matches. Even if the track were the exact same length, it's effectively a different file / song as far as the data is concerned. Sorry, the best thing you can do is re-analyse, as that will keep the hot cues and adjust the grid.

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this is no bug you have to get into the remastering stuff. you change sampling rates bit depth, dynamics etc and depending on what mechanism/Daw you use you change the slightly the tracks length so the timecode and even the waveform won't fit anymore.

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But I don't see why. I'm not deleting the from RB file and reimporting it, nor am I changing the actual file or location in anyway.

I close rekordbox, put the file through audacity and overwrite the existing file - nothing in terms of the file data changes.

Re-open rekordbox and it picks it up as it nothing has changed, don't need to re-locate or anything. The grid just moves and it's annoying haha

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