# Let AA during the mix or bounce the track and mix?

**URL:** https://forum.soundradix.com/t/let-aa-during-the-mix-or-bounce-the-track-and-mix/1787
**Category:** Auto-Align
**Created:** [April 12, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.soundradix.com/t/let-aa-during-the-mix-or-bounce-the-track-and-mix/1787 "2023-04-12T09:10:20Z")
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### Author: ![jfb2web](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jfb2web](https://forum.soundradix.com/u/jfb2web)
#### Post date: [April 12, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.soundradix.com/t/let-aa-during-the-mix-or-bounce-the-track-and-mix/1787/1 "2023-04-12T09:10:20Z")

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Hello there.  
I use AA and it does a great job.  
Reading on the forum, I know that it’s better to use AA and after quantize.  
But the info that I didn’t find is if it good to let the AA on during the mix process or, once use AA, edit the tracks and then bounce tracks to start mixing.  
Thank you for your advises.  
jfi

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### Author: ![Oran](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/forum.soundradix.com/oran/32/195_2.png) [@Oran](https://forum.soundradix.com/u/Oran)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2023, 11:08am UTC](https://forum.soundradix.com/t/let-aa-during-the-mix-or-bounce-the-track-and-mix/1787/2 "2023-04-13T11:08:53Z")

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Hi @jfb2web,

Welcome to our Forum!

You can leave Auto-Align working as your first insert plugin and start mixing.

If you have any questions, let me know.

Thanks,

Oran

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### Author: ![jfb2web](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jfb2web](https://forum.soundradix.com/u/jfb2web)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2023, 12:27pm UTC](https://forum.soundradix.com/t/let-aa-during-the-mix-or-bounce-the-track-and-mix/1787/3 "2023-04-14T12:27:27Z")

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Thanks Oran.  
But If I need to do some edition maybe better to Bounce …  
And no other choice when my tracks has some tempo automation (AA can’t handle that).  
Thank you.

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### Author: ![thomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@thomas](https://forum.soundradix.com/u/thomas)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.soundradix.com/t/let-aa-during-the-mix-or-bounce-the-track-and-mix/1787/4 "2023-04-15T08:06:14Z")

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Hi,  
FWIW I’ve never let Autoalign 1 activated on any track : I use it for identifying the right delay then use the free ‘sound delay’ plug from Voxengo instead.

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### Author: ![jfb2web](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee59a6/32.png) [@jfb2web](https://forum.soundradix.com/u/jfb2web)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 12:06pm UTC](https://forum.soundradix.com/t/let-aa-during-the-mix-or-bounce-the-track-and-mix/1787/5 "2023-04-15T12:06:34Z")

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Hello @thomas  
Can you explain me why ?  
Did you have some issue ? For CPU saving ?

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### Author: ![thomas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@thomas](https://forum.soundradix.com/u/thomas)
#### Post date: [April 15, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.soundradix.com/t/let-aa-during-the-mix-or-bounce-the-track-and-mix/1787/6 "2023-04-15T14:51:26Z")

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Mostly for peace of mind and mixer space. With a dumb plugin like Sound delay there’s only one instance running in your mixer once for all, and mostly no risk of relaunching the delay identification process. Hence I’m sure to keep the very same settings (same sound) throughout the whole album.