MAutoAlign – Orchestra recording – varying delays on every analysis – MeldaProduction Forum

this is probably something that I don’t understand and I would like to clarify why it’s happening.

I have a recording of an orchestra with 23 mics, instantiated MAA on all tracks and hit analyse. Everytime I do so MAA calculates a different delay.
I find this confusing, why is it happening – I mean the mics are static and nothing changes within that same take…?

And a second question: in this case, shouldn’t the center microphone of the Decca tree be set as the “master track” and align all others to that one?
When I group only the three Decca Tree mics together, the MAA instance of the right channel consistently gets a delay of 0 while the left and center channel get delayed. I know for the end result it doesn’t really matter to which one the signal gets aligned, however, my OCD tells me that the center mic should not have any delay and the others should be phase aligned to that one.

-W