recording delay

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I am currently using a Berhinger SX4882 console with the 8 groups routed to my DP 32 recorder. I want to move to a interface DAW setup. I want to keep my console due to the routing functions. Each channel on the console has a direct out that I would route into the interface. I would use the group outs for head phone mixes. being that I would use the DAW for recording and the console for the head phone mix would there be a delay from the live signal to the recorded signal? for instance, if I record a track then play that track back to add another track. I want 24 channels of interface to match the channels on my console. I would route each input to the console then use the direct out to the interface. Thanks
 
A 24 input interface is going to cost a bundle! Curious which one you have in mind.

Depending on the interface you choose, how solid its drivers are, how small of an ASIO buffer you can get away with on your computer hardware, what sample rate and bit depth you record at...you can get low enough latency that it'll be a moot point. A few ms going in, a few ms coming out. My RME is getting just over 3ms each direction at 96kHz/24-bit, which is pretty damn solid. I think that even double that would still be almost undetectable.
 
Echo do a firewire interface with 12 line inputs and I'm pretty sure you can daisy chain them. Have a google.
There are also interfaces out there with several 8 channel adat digital inputs. Sure, you'd have to combine them with converters but something cheap + simple like the behringer ada8000 would be fine and wouldn't break the bank.

Just a couple of things to look into. :)
 
No, there won't be a delay as long as you do all the monitoring through the mixer. All that would be coming back from the DAW would be the stereo mix on the main out. Bring that in on two channels of the mixer. Then, monitor everything that you are recording from the live feeds, not from the DAW.

I did this for years and it worked wonderfully.
 
Farview said:
No, there won't be a delay as long as you do all the monitoring through the mixer. All that would be coming back from the DAW would be the stereo mix on the main out. Bring that in on two channels of the mixer. Then, monitor everything that you are recording from the live feeds, not from the DAW.

I did this for years and it worked wonderfully.
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That is actually what I was thinking, I have stereo aux returns so I could keep the channels free. Thanks!
 
Tadpui said:
A 24 input interface is going to cost a bundle! Curious which one you have in mind.

Depending on the interface you choose, how solid its drivers are, how small of an ASIO buffer you can get away with on your computer hardware, what sample rate and bit depth you record at...you can get low enough latency that it'll be a moot point. A few ms going in, a few ms coming out. My RME is getting just over 3ms each direction at 96kHz/24-bit, which is pretty damn solid. I think that even double that would still be almost undetectable.
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Well what I want and what I can afford are usually way apart!:D I would like to start out with an 8 channel interface that I could stack or expand into 24. I am still in the research stage.
 
Atkron205 said:
That is actually what I was thinking, I have stereo aux returns so I could keep the channels free. Thanks!
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The reason to use the channels is because you can route the signal from the channels to more places than the aux returns.

I used the mix between and the stereo aux sends for the headphones mixes. The aux returns don't have that option.
 
16 inputs is enough for most things. I could count on two hands the times in the last 20 years I've needed more than 16 tracks at one time. Those times all involved a monster drumset that used 16 or more tracks by itself.
 
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