calibrating and fixing latency? this is what i do...

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cello_pudding

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i've searched for fixing latency issues and i couldn't find an answer.

what i did some time ago is set a mic right up to my speakers and played an audio track...and recorded it. i adjusted the latency until they matched up almost perfectly.

i know there's an option to adjust it automatically...but it didn't seem to work.

is this right at all? i'm not at my recording computer..but it seems the number is quite high. like..120 or something. i think -120 actually. if that even makes sense
 
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Card???? ASIO drivers available???? HD speed/size/space available??? RAM???
Video card??? Other stuff running in the background??? :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
calibration technique doesn't require knowledge of my card.

i don't really care about where it comes from. it's always going to be there.
 
120 what? what is that number you're getting.

everything c7sus asked is important too. everything your audio passes through or is touching your recording program can affect what happens with it.

I'll add more questions...recording software? buffer size? plugins?
 
WHAT DO YOU DO TO COMPENSATE?

do you guys just nudge every time you record?
 
When you say 120 what is the unit of measurement??? :confused:

Ticks??? Milliseconds???
 
cello_pudding said:
do you guys just nudge every time you record?
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I think I've never had to record my monitors so I don't really know. Maybe I'd try to use as short as possible speaker leads;)
 
bennychico11 said:
I just drive a big pickup truck

:D
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:D (thanks for the laugh with my coffee.)

Cello - With latency running so low these days, and with hardware monitoring, I'm not sure I see the point in sweating the few milliseconds left..... the exception being if you wanted to record with a mic while listening to monitors in the same room.
 
Robert D said:
:D (thanks for the laugh with my coffee.)

Cello - With latency running so low these days, and with hardware monitoring, I'm not sure I see the point in sweating the few milliseconds left..... the exception being if you wanted to record with a mic while listening to monitors in the same room.
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even still, its no big deal

I think maybe the dude's software maybe doing something weird
 
Yeah, I did that nudging stuff back in the day when I didn't have money for a real recording soundcard. If you have a regular soundcard (onboard or soundblaster or whatever) and a shitty computer, latency can get upto 120ms, which is a real pain.

If you have a decent computer, and a cheap recording card (audiophile 2496 or similar) latency gets down to a couple ms, which is nearly unnoticeable.

Does this answer your question?
 
well..my latency is negative 103 ms to be exact. buffer samples is set at 576. i'm using an onyx 400f as my audio device. asio driver is 1.05 version from mackie. (it uses firewire)

i'm not really concerned in controling it, since its already in control. this isn't a me thread. it was a you. and it seems people just don't have have latency issues.
 
LOL, I didn't notice your post count, I was assuming you were another of those "wanting to do professional recording on a college-student budget" and trying to fix latency problems on a soundblaster (like me when I first got here).

Nowadays with decent computers being cheap as they are, latency is no longer an issue for most of us.
 
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