![]() My son (who records with his band) has different stories about latency. I thought it might not be (as much) a problem. I know that bluetooth headphones (for listening back purposes) do not help. I have not been able to adress the topic, wether it has to do with the pre settings or other "things". Trying Audacity I notice extreme latency. Recording multitrack recordings and listening back to my own voice/instrument while recording, there is no latency. I plugged in headphones, conecting them with the recorder by cable. So let me recapitulate my recording experience so far: This is due to the fact that there is no processing time that a computer might need to play you back your voice/instrument that you want to record. If you record analogue there is no lantency problem. This may be because of hardware or software "problems". When you have your own track to listen to, latency may cause a delay which means that it sounds like you hear an echo or like you are constantly interupting yourself. ![]() So you are listening to the track that you want to play to. In order to do so, you have to be able to listen to it. If it comes out garbled, here it is probably more straight: You want to play to a track. Latency becomes a "problem" when you want to record and listen to your playing/singing while playing/listening to a track that you are singing/playing to at the same time. Just think of latency when you think about sitting in a concert and listening to the music. That means that latency is existant when it comes to playing music and listening to it. If you think about it, there is a certain time span that the ear is willing (or able) to tolerate when it comes to latency. This is because the fiddle is closer to your ear than your guitar. If you are a guitar player, you "hear back" your guitar later than if you are a fiddle player and you "hear back" your fiddle. So the basic thing that I understand is that there is allways some latency. But would like a quick and easy way to do multitrack recording without torpedoing this by having latency issues (that should not be there by all means). It´s not that I would like to have a professional recording setup. I wonder: Is it only an Audacity thing? Do bluetooth headphones ad to the latency in a noticable manner (you are practically standing next to the mixer, it´s not like playing to each other on Skype have you tried bluetooth headphones as monitors)? My son tells me about his experience when his bandmate does the recordings and cusses because of latency issues. There was no latency noticable back then (but I was not the "recording engineer"). I once did a multitrack recording to a computer that was equipped with Audacity. I have seen that there are video tutorials about latency with Audacity. Nor is there a problem with a Zoom when you do direct multitrack recording (without plugging it into the computer). I never had any problems with my Tascam hard disk recorder. I do understand, that bluetooth headphones ad to the latency. I am frustrated and I am looking for a way to deal with this. How do you (!) deal with this problem, or do you not have it, and if not, why? Is there a fix (there´s no latency when recording with my old Taskam thingy - but it´s big and stationary as opposed to a Zoom and a laptop)?ĭo headphones that are plugged in (as opposed to bluetooth headphones) helping to eliminate latency? Is latency allways a problem while recording with software like Audacity? Talking to my son I found out that when he records stuff with his band, the "recording engineer" (drummer) bitches about the latency also and has to adjust things accordingly (after the recording process. When trying to listen while recording I encountered extreme latency. Thinking that it makes recording easier I purchased some newfangled bluetooth headphones. ![]() So I wanted to pair a Zoom recorder with my computer and a recording software. I thought that I´d try out something new. I have an old Taskam hard disk multitrack recorder.
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