Delay in Doubling of input signal

[BibleMan]

Hi all.

I am using Cakewalk Music Creator 2002, laptop computer, Soundblaster and a POD for recording guitar parts on an existing track.

When I play my guitar part, the guitar part has an "echoy" sound in real time as I play it, and is slightly delayed in reference to the original track. During playback, however, it is dry and in time.

Is there a way for me to hear the part during recording the way it is being laid down?

Thanks all. You have all been a HUGE help to this fledgling recorder. I appeciate it.

-BM

P.S. This is the first part I have actually tried to record, so I suspect that when I start using my mixer to record other instument parts and vocals, the same thing will result. Just wanted to clarify.

 

[CyanJaguar]

if you have a mixer, you could monitor the original and the dobling through the mixer and that should fix it I think

 

[crawdad]

What you are experiencing is called latency. Your computer is playing back your guitar track a little late as you record. You can reduce the latency by using a smaller samples per buffer size. Thisa will help but not completely eliminate the echo. It will make the echo shorter.

As the previous poster said, monitoring through a mixer works the best. Here is what you have to do.

1. Run a stereo mix of the track you are playing through into two tracks of your mixer.

2. If you are using an external preamp with more than one output, run one of those outputs into a channel of your mixer at line level. You can mix your guitar track up or down so you can hear it in proper relation to the stereo mix.

3. If you are using a channel of the mixer as your preamp and you have a Mackie mixer, you can use the direct out on your guitar channel and only plug the 1/4" plug halfway in. This will send your guitar signal to your computer but still allow you to hear what you are doing with no latency.

 

[bubbasmith]

I´m not sure what those earlier replys ment, so sorry if this is kind of same thing. My help for you is just that turn off your software-based monitoring.

I know nothing about cakewalk but guess there is some option to turn off that cakewalk´s own recording signal monitoring.

Or, as I do in logicAudio, turn down the recording track´s volume fader while recording (cause in logic audio the mixer track´s volumefader turns to recording signal fader while the track is armed for recording. and it still got nothing to do with the real input level it´s only for monitoring). You can still hear your input and output signals through soundplaster´s mixer I think.

My explanation may be chaotic, sorry, but hope this helps.
but, if you wanted to hear your input signal in realtime with the effects plugins turned on, this won´t help you.

.bub..

 

[TexRoadkill]

Bubba is correct. Mute the channel that is being recorded so you dont hear the live signal and the recorded channel at the same time.