recovering from latency?

[djclueveli]

is there any way to prevent latency at all? or if not is there a way to recover from it? cause my acoustic guitars are not lined up with the beat after i throw on a waves(plugin) effect on it.

 

[peritus]

What DAW are you using?

ProTools LE has options to help with this... I think I might have a thread about this somewhere.. brb

 

[ecktronic]

is there any way to prevent latency at all? or if not is there a way to recover from it? cause my acoustic guitars are not lined up with the beat after i throw on a waves(plugin) effect on it.

We get latency when recording, so all we do is make sure the musician makes some sharp noises in time with the metronome (or drums) just before playing the part he is recording. Then its simply lining up the sharp notes with the click or the drums.
If you only get latency from the plug-ins then your computer will not be good enough to handle mixing. Only 1 plug-in you say? How old is your computer?!!

Eck

 

[peritus]

If you only get latency from the plug-ins then your computer will not be good enough to handle mixing. Only 1 plug-in you say? How old is your computer?!!

Eck

This is not entirely true.... At least with ProTools LE

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Feb03/articles/pronotes0203.asp
http://akmedia.digidesign.com/support/docs/Delay_Comp_PT_Host_Systems_33000.pdf

 

[Freudian Slip]

I don't know what Waves plug you're using, but some of the stereo effects will get really goofy that way if you try to use them on a mono track.
I'm not sure what the problem is. Some work fine, others nope. I think you'd know though if that's what it was cause it's HUGE latency

 

[MessianicDreams]

If you only get latency from the plug-ins then your computer will not be good enough to handle mixing. Only 1 plug-in you say? How old is your computer?!!

Eck

yeh that's actually pretty incorrect. Latency is fairly normal for heavy plugins.

the only way to solve this is to pull the track that has the latency back to make up for it. If you're using PT, right click on the track's volume display. It'll scroll thru Peak Volume and the Latency amount in samples. then just simply grab the track (i find spot mode and a calculator best for this ) and pull it back by the required number of samples.