Audio latency? The killer of recording shredders?!?

[alexjr]

hey all

i use cool edit 2 and m-audio jam lab ........
as someone had mentioned the latency issue can be adjusted with asio4all and possibly the program running internal effects on your pc ... try that out or google asio4all ..... good luck

[saint_berzerker]

I never get latency problems using the ASIO4all drivers. If you use your hardware drivers, odds are you're going to get some kind of delay.

I don't know why, but ASIO4alls are the best....no matter what program I've ever used.

[Robstar]

Uhm..Yeah just gat a mac

[Rotti]

ASIO!

[timi_h]

i get incredible amounts of latency recording into my laptop. what i do is plug my POD (its only bedroom recording!) straight into my M-audio Jamlab, get cubase rolling with the latency compensator thing turned on and just make sure i dont have the recorded guitar sound being played at me while i record. instead, i monitor myself by taking another line out of the POD and putting it in my guitar amp, and setting the level to where i want it to be.
since latency is constant, it just subtracts the delay, basically the same as you sliding the whole recorded part back by the delay time with your mouse afterwards only more accurate. results in a nice in-time recording!
basically the important part is monitoring yourself with your raw sound, so its got zero latency. could acheive the same thing being in the same room as your guitar amp and having one headphone on!

[ColinMmmmm]

I've been looking at this problem recently. I'm a total amateur - I've borrowed an M-audio groovelab from a friend, and am trying to get the thing to work. I don't see why I can't listen to myself while I record, even if it's just from a direct out somewhere. It seems like the first thing I'd include in an interface. I mean it'll record in time, but if I want to hear it there's a significant delay. I don't care if I hear what I'm recording or not, I just want to hear myself over the backing track.

[ColinMmmmm]

Alright I figured it out. I just ran the second output of my ME-50 into my old ****ty fender. It sounds almost as ****ty as the recording I'm making. They're surprisingly similar.

[axemanrio]

I have recorded a live band using my Samsung NC10 notebook which is equipped with an Intel Atom chip and 2GB DDR2-533 memory, ZERO latency. At home I use a Dell XPS M1330 to monitor and record simultaneously through a UA-25 or Firewire Solo, again ZERO latency. Zero latency is not a myth with the computing power available the last few years.

Anyway, in addition to the other suggestions in this thread, make sure you select your device's ASIO driver under audio device settings of your sequencer.

[shredmaster]

when recording, optimize your pc! set memory for performance. sure, the OS won't look as pretty, but it's just standard grey, not fancy rounded icons and taskbars, etc. when you are recording or listening back, you must plug the headphones into the recording unit's jack...... digidesign pro tools 002 rack, or m-audio, whatever you use! if you plug headphones into the pc's soundcard you are of course going to get latency because you are listening to audio processed by the pc's processor, etc, soundcard, and it all takes some time to hit via through the system! by doing this you are at the mercy of your pc's power, or lack of it. you want to listen to playback via the unit since you are using the unit to record with. by plugging headphones into the pc's jack, if this is what you're doing, you're listening to a different soundpath from what is being recorded, which will cause latency. i have used pro tools on really slow laptops and workstations with no latency issues by doing these steps. another thing that can help on slower machines is disabling the nic card while recording. sometimes pro tools doesn't like it enabled, i found out, and can cause your recordings to stop in the middle of a session due to irq conflict, which i think is irq 11. just go to device manager and disable the nic while in a session.

[nato101010]

Originally Posted by Robstar

Uhm..Yeah just gat a mac

Uhm.. Yeah you're 10000% right.

[shredmaster]

Originally Posted by nato101010

Uhm.. Yeah you're 10000% right.

if you read what i posted, it has nothing to do with the OS, it's the processor. the cpu and signal path is what i was targeting, not a mac or pc's OS. this could happen in an older mac as well, and has. i say older mac for its processor, not OS. the latency i speak of should be less of an issue in newer machines with core 2 duo or higher, quads, etc. if you choose to use the headphone jack on the machine, as opposed to the DAW you are at the mercy of cpu, bus speed, etc. pentium 4's will be the biggest issues, but no one should be using them for this type of recording. you need to monitor with phones / speakers connected to the DAW itself.