I’m trying to set the latency. Every time I try the manual procedure as per the video I keep getting a feedback loop that overwhelms the recording within 2-3 seconds. Trying the automated (macro) process just causes an internal error. This happens whether I try the on-step or two-step macro.
I think it’s still true you can’t listen to Audacity during a recording. If you are, for eample, recording your singing voice, that will always give you an echo or reverb.
Describe the production. If you’re recording an overdub session, listen to yourself on the microphone or the interface with wired headphones and make the interface mix the Audacity existing or backing tracks to that.
Wireless headphones need not apply.
That latency setting makes the new voice recording match all the existing tracks. You only hear that match on playback later.
Koz
Unfortunately, the official procedure to pick a latency value requires recording a rhythm track, then playing it back and re-recording it, and doing so results in feedback. I don’t know why this was not a problem with the posted video.
Once I get the proper latency value I plan to record new tracks while monitoring the existing tracks on wired headphones so feedback would not be a problem.
There is a fudge method. Produce a rhythm or backing track. Play it into your standard overdubbing wired headphones and tap the microphone in time to the track.
I have been known to jam one of the headphone muffs on top of the microphone. We’re not producing Grammy’s here. Just record the tap for time matching.
Koz
I had come to the same conclusion - listen and tap. Thanks for the feedback (I guess that’s a pun).