What is causing this delay?

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K i have an SM57 Micing my JCM 2000 DSL full stack... guitarist is playing into CEP VIA a Delta 44 with breakout box... sounds great while palying but upon play back it seems like there is some timing problems caused by the computer or hardware? what causes this delay?? what settings should be set??
 
How are you monitoring what the guitarist is playing? If it's after the track is recorded (at the end of the chain), the inherent latency in the process might be enough to throw you off, depending on what drivers you are using and how the high or low the latency is set. It's best to monitor the signal coming into the card, then this latency should not be an issue.
 
so run his headphones out of the deltas 1&2 out? and are there newer drivers that fix this ? im just using the inbox drivers...
 
It is most likely the sound card you are using. Check and see if AISO drivers are available for your sound card. If it is a sound blaster Audigy 2 or better (Echo or M-audio products maybe) then there will be drivers available. You may have to go to the manufacturer and download the AISO drivers. If you are using cheezy hardware, the best software you'll be able to use is Cool Edit Pro, because the latency is delt with automatically. But for any real VST (Like cubase, pro tools, or nuendo), you must have AISO to monitor through the same playback speakers.

AISO is direct monitoring. It allows the input signal to be piped directly to the output instead of having to be processed by the software first. ;)
 
That's ASIO, not AISO. The Delta series do have ASIO drivers, but I don't know if Cool Edit Pro can use them (I suspect it can -- even SONAR supports ASIO drivers now, finally).

ASIO is not what allows direct monitoring, either. It's the sound card hardware that allows that -- there has to be a physical path from the inputs straight to the output, otherwise it is routed after running through the drivers and is by definition not direct.

The Delta manual explains how to route the input signals to the outputs properly. It's also on their website written up in a slightly differnt form.
 
Thanks for the correction! Yeah what he said ASIO! :P
 
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