Latency

[Blackbirdpaul]

Sorry if this has been covered before. I've looked at the various solutions and most go the path of recording a click track, then overdubbing that track through an external microphone. Ok so far, but then I read that once that latency has been fixed it will only apply to the inputs on that track. So if I'm recording guitar through an external sound card (Tascam US-122) then that solution wouldn't apply to multi-tracking solely through the Tascam? I guess what I'm asking is, is there a way to solve the latency issue once, that will apply to all subsequent recordings?

[Blackbirdpaul]

Further to my earlier post, simply playing guitar whilst all set to record (on pause), with laptop speakers on, the latency/delay is there even then.

[steve]

Near the bottom of the Transport menu - turn off "software Playthrough".

[Blackbirdpaul]

Thanks for that Steve, now I can accompany a pre-recorded track - but the latency is still there when I playback.

[steve]

but the latency is still there when I playback.

See here: http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/Latency_Test

"Latency" is not a phenomena that affects playback, so I'm not really sure what you mean.

[Blackbirdpaul]

Sorry Steve, guess I'm using wrong terminololgy! Basically, I record a guitar track through a Tascam external soundcard. Then accompany that track with a second track, when I playback the 2 recorded tracks, there is a time lag between the two.

[steve]

OK. yes that is due to latency. Run the "latency test" to set-up latency correction (see link in my last post). That should bring the tracks into sync.