I'm a Newbie!

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When everybody was freaking out over these things, I looked into them a bit. I still have the manual here, and it looks like there is no "direct monitor" in the sense chili is thinking of, where all the digital stages are completely bypassed and the input goes straight to the output. However, they have included something similar that looks like the same idea, but they're very adamant about saying that the signal is going through the digital mixer, still. It's on page 25. It looks like the driver provides 3 stereo "outs" that your software can route audio to, then you can choose which physical ports to route those to, and if you route the monitor channels through something other than what you use for your main outs, then you can set their output to "phones" instead of the lineout. Or something... it's kinda not clear how that will make things any better (latency wise... obviously it's nice to be able to choose exactly what's in the headphone mix) than just using the main mix in the headphones, but it looks like you should be able to do something here that will work better than sending the signal all the way through the software and back.

I have this version of the manual, in case there's different ones with different page numbers or something: http://tascam.com/content/downloads/products/207/us800_om.pdf

...good luck with that, RAMI :D
 
Thanx Typhoid. I'll look into that. I'm not sure if it will help me, only because the headphone out of the actual unit is very weak. Until I get a headphone am, it will be too low no matter what.

But I don't think I'll need to get an amp. What I'm doing now is simply taking the 2 audio outs of the US800 and plugging them into the AUX IN of my receiver. From there, I can turn off my speakers and crank the headphones as loud as I want them.

Thanx for all the help so far.

....and in case it was ever in question, Jimmy is THE man. Period. I'm not going to go into all the details of what he did to help me get this thing. But let's just say that if I was ever going to war, I'd want Jimmy fighting right beside me.
 
RAMI said:
....and in case it was ever in question, Jimmy is THE man. Period. I'm not going to go into all the details of what he did to help me get this thing. But let's just say that if I was ever going to war, I'd want Jimmy fighting right beside me.
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Aw shucks... :)

Good thing Canada isn't likely to go to war anytime soon eh? lol! Sorry.

I'm always willing to help out a contributing member of the forum man. And besides, you're a drummer and yer cool. :drunk::drunk:
 
timtimtim said:
I used to get annoying latency, but when I switched to a new much faster computer the latency became so short it was negligible
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This!

You should not have any noticeable latency. If you do, then something is not configured correctly, or your computer is not up to the task.
 
soundchaser59 said:
You should not have any noticeable latency. If you do, then something is not configured correctly, or your computer is not up to the task.
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Interesting. Thanx man. Actually, I wasn't getting any latency when recording tracks with no effects on anything. But when I went to re-do a vocal track on a project that was already mixed, I had latency because of all the effects on all the channels. When I by-passed a couple of the send effects, like reverb, everything was fine. Is this normal?
 
RAMI said:
Hey! Our army's as good as anyone's. Wait until we get guns!!!

:eek:
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I'm a bit scared! lol!

Yes, the more VST's you add, the more latency will be added, due to your processor trying to keep up. Removing heavy CPU consuming plugs while tracking, will alleviate this. Or freeze tracks if it is an option in Reaper.
 
I use Sonar 6 and a U42S which has a monitor mix level (already recorded vs what you are recording). It is pretty much zero latency when recording.
The headphone volume is not bad, but tbh it's always up full. My buffer is set to 128 by default and my reported latency is somewhere around 300 something or other. They allow you to set a manual offset and I set it to 1000 which eliminates latency betwen recorded and existing tracks.
I'm thinking of getting Reaper to play around with their external hardware insert just to muck around. Good luck - but knowing your skills, you'll have this down pretty quick :-)
 
RAMI said:
....when I went to re-do a vocal track on a project that was already mixed, I had latency because of all the effects on all the channels. When I by-passed a couple of the send effects, like reverb, everything was fine. Is this normal?
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It was normal for me when I was using Sonar. Same hardware with Reaper now, I never have that problem. If this is happening with Reaper, assuming your machine is strictly dedicated to music recording and nothing else, then my first guess would be you are using an older machine? single core processor? Don't know much about your interface, but that would be my second area of suspicion. I use an EMU 1616M-PCI, and I had tons of latency problems with Sonar, and that all disappeared with Reaper. And I'm still running 32 bit Win 7, which runs multi track much better than XP did. Maybe that's what explains my problem disappearing. I forgot that I switched to Win 7 at the same time I abandoned Sonar.
 
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