Recording acoustic guitar

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I went to record some acoustic guitar on a song I was working on last night. I was happy with the sound but even though I was playing in time along with a click it recorded it out of time. And not slightly either, it was pretty noticeable. I don't think it was latency as I couldn't tell there was any when just strumming a listening back. What else would cause this delay when recording? I was able to slide the tracks into time so it wasn't that big a deal, but just wondering if there was some other way I should be doing it.

My setup is: The Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Studio Bundle into Reaper. So I was using the condenser mic that came with it.
 
Probably still latency of a sort.. depending upon how you're monitoring, you may not hear it at the time. How much did you have to move it to get it aligned in time?
 
gcolbert said:
Does Reaper have a latency compensation setting?
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I'll have to Google that and see if I can find out. I'm not sure as I'm still pretty new to the program. As for Armistice question, I would guess maybe it was a 1/4 beat behind but I don't know the exact distance now. But I did not have to chop up each section, so I was playing in time. I just had to slide the whole section back a bit.
 
If you are monitoring on your Scarlett while recording there is still (and always will be) latency between the computer and the device. Unless you are looping effects through the DAW it doesn't even matter how much latency there is. The latency compensation setting tells the DAW how much to correct the timing of the new track once it brings it into the project.

This will most likely be a per-device setting.

Glen
 
Sounds to me like you were track monitoring and not direct monitoring. If you had any delay or reverb VST on the track while recording, that would increase the latency.
I always direct monitor with Reaper and never have latency issue.
 
mjbphotos said:
Sounds to me like you were track monitoring and not direct monitoring. If you had any delay or reverb VST on the track while recording, that would increase the latency.
I always direct monitor with Reaper and never have latency issue.
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You are probably correct sir. I record dry and add effects later. I'll figure out how to direct monitor and see if that works.
 
Ok I got this fixed. I actually wasn't track monitoring at all. I played with those options (On, Auto, Off) and the latency was really noticeable when track monitoring was on. So I went to the audio device options. I changed my "Audio system" from DirectSound to ASIO and that seemed to solve the issue.
 
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