Live Monitoring problems

[Shounak]

Hello folks,

I am trying to record an electric guitar part using a Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 and Ableton Live 9 Suite into my PC. I am using Guitar Rig 5 as a plugin in Ableton to get the guitar tones.
There is a direct monitor switch in the Scarlet 2i2 which gives me the unaffected guitar signal into my headphones for monitoring. However i am not being able to record distorted guitar parts as there is a time lag when i switch on the monitor option in Ableton. I have tried lowering the number of samples in input and output but the lag remains. Also, if i reduce the samples below a certain level, there is a cracking sound in the input.
Can anyone please tell me how to remove the time lag while recording in Ableton so that i can hear the tones out of guitar rig 5 while recording...

Thanks in Advance

 

[Miles@Focusrite]

Hi there,


Which version of Windows are you on? It may be worth checking our Answerbase for an optimization guide for audio to see if this helps.

There are a number of other things I'd want to look into here - are you able to email us directly?

Focusrite Answerbase | Focusrite


All the best,
Miles

 

[Shounak]

Hi there,


Which version of Windows are you on? It may be worth checking our Answerbase for an optimization guide for audio to see if this helps.

There are a number of other things I'd want to look into here - are you able to email us directly?




All the best,
Miles

Hi Miles.

Thanks a lot for the link to the Answerbase, and one good thing is that i have solved the problem of live monitoring through my DAW.

Previously the audio driver was set to MME/DirectX. This was giving me a lot of lag issues. Then i changes it to ASIO and now the lag is relatively low and i can monitor my tracks properly.

However i am facing another issue and this time is about panning. I am recording each track in mono and i am listening to them through my headphones, connected to the headphones input in the frot panel of the interface. I am trying to pan some rhythm guitar tracks completely to the left and some to the right. But i am not being able to hear the panning in my headphones. Whenever i pan it completely to the right, the whole track becomes mute and sound comes again when i get the pan knob to the center or left.
However when I rendered the mix and was listening through my phone, every thing was panned properly. Can u tell me why this is happening, and also a way to listen to the panned mix through the Scarlet 212 interface?

Thanks
Shounak