Latency and click track

Audacity Help Forum Windows
1

When I set the latency value in “Preferences”, will this latency be applied to a new click track?
I want to generate a new click track and then record a first guitar part, play back the guitar and the click track and then record the second guitar part.
I am using a M-AUDIO Mobile-Pre USB interface and WIndows XP SP3. I am using a condensor mike to record the classical guitar.

2

Latency compensation is only applied to recorded tracks. It does not need to be applied to generated tracks because there is no latency to be compensated for.
See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/latency_test.html

3

So how does that work then?? Do I set the latency to 0 and then generate the click track, and the set the latency to the correct value and then record the additonal tracks???

4

No, just set up the latency correction for recording (as described in the link).
Don’t worry about latency with generated sounds, there isn’t any and latency correction is not applied.

5

Thanks. I will give that a try.