But I've finally moved on kicking and screaming to the digital age. I worked in analog for several years, and I've run sound for my church for over 20 years but have not done any multitrack recording since getting out of recording and pro audio. Digital recording was just coming on the scene as I got out. I've got several questions but I'll start off with the one that concerns me the most.
I have an HP HDX16 laptop with 4 GB of RAM and a 2.26 GHz Intel Core Duo CPU. I'm running Vista Home Premium 64 bit as the OS. I've got a Presonus Firestudio Project which is connected to the laptop via an ADS Tech Pyro 1394a Express card. I'm storing the audio on an external HDD, a GRAID 1TB e-SATA unit. I'm using Sony Vegas 8 as my software.
The first session I tried was with a friend who was playing guitar and singing. After several attempts we got a take we were reasonably happy with but there was one area that he messed up the guitar part. I plugged a set of headphones into the Presonus and gave them to him. When he started playing though, there was a noticeable delay in the phones between his playing and what he heard in the headphones. I didn't know how to punch in/out in Vegas on the same track so I had armed another one to record this section onto.
Can anyone tell me why I would have gotten this delay? Was it latency in the system? Or was it some other setting that I'm not aware of? I know it didn't have this delay when we laid down the first tracks because I had been using the headphones to monitor the performance. If I was recording to an analog machine I would have immediately known that I hadn't switched that track to input to listen off the record head and not the playback head, but I'm not so that couldn't be it.
Thanks!
Mike
I have an HP HDX16 laptop with 4 GB of RAM and a 2.26 GHz Intel Core Duo CPU. I'm running Vista Home Premium 64 bit as the OS. I've got a Presonus Firestudio Project which is connected to the laptop via an ADS Tech Pyro 1394a Express card. I'm storing the audio on an external HDD, a GRAID 1TB e-SATA unit. I'm using Sony Vegas 8 as my software.
The first session I tried was with a friend who was playing guitar and singing. After several attempts we got a take we were reasonably happy with but there was one area that he messed up the guitar part. I plugged a set of headphones into the Presonus and gave them to him. When he started playing though, there was a noticeable delay in the phones between his playing and what he heard in the headphones. I didn't know how to punch in/out in Vegas on the same track so I had armed another one to record this section onto.
Can anyone tell me why I would have gotten this delay? Was it latency in the system? Or was it some other setting that I'm not aware of? I know it didn't have this delay when we laid down the first tracks because I had been using the headphones to monitor the performance. If I was recording to an analog machine I would have immediately known that I hadn't switched that track to input to listen off the record head and not the playback head, but I'm not so that couldn't be it.
Thanks!
Mike