Please if someone can help I would be so thankful. Here is what I have… Windows Vista 32bit…Peavey pv6 mixer board…M Audio interface…2 Mics… headphones. ok. So when I lay down my first track. Its perfect! My second track I have to select tape/usb to ctrl/hp in order to hear what I recorded… when I do that then my vocals are off by maybe a half second in my headphones. Very hard to record when you have even the slightest of delays in vocals… please please please help.
So when I lay down my first track. Its perfect! My second track I have to select tape/usb to ctrl/hp in order to hear what I recorded… when I do that then my vocals are off by maybe a half second in my headphones. Very hard to record when you have even the slightest of delays in vocals… please please please help.
I don’t quite understand the problem… Are you hearing your “live” vocals delayed, or the recorded vocals? If the first track isn’t delayed “live”, I’m not sure why the 2nd one is…
The best solution is usually to monitor yourself through the mixer, rather than through the computer. That means you’ll have to plug the M-Audio output, or your soundcard output, into the mixer so you can monitor both the backing-track and your live vocals.
Your M-Audio interface may also have direct zero-latency monitoring, depending on it’s features.
Otherwise you’ll have to experiment to see how low you can go with the buffer/latency before you start getting glitches. There is always some delay when monitoring through the computer 9due to buffering required by the multitasking system), although it can often be reduced to the point where it’s acceptable.
We’re hoping you meant to say Peavey PV6-USB. The regular one won’t do that.
The USB one may not do that, either. Mixers and devices have to be specially designed to mix Audacity Playback with your live voice. I have a note in to Sweetwater Sound to get somebody to test this. So far, nothing.
This microphone, for one example, will do this trick.
http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/pix/samsonGTrackConnections.jpg
If you listen to the microphone, you will hear a perfect version of the show.
So here’s the deal, if you do have the PV6-USB version, play something in Audacity and see if you can hear it in the mixer. You may need to reset the Device Toolbar to make this happen.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/device_toolbar.html
Make Audacity play to the USB Device.
Koz