AudioBanter.com - View Single Post - [Newbie] Playback latency, direct monitoring, tascam us-122

In article writes:

Yes, I'm able to hear myself without latency during recording - the
lag is only apparent when playing back the mix. I've just attempted to
measure the latency. To do this I created an initial click track, then
re-recorded the click track by feeding the Direct Monitor output back
as the input signal. Sound reasonable?

Yes. That's the way I measure this sort of thing. You're not really
feeding the DIRECT monitor signal back to the recorder since its
source is only the input source, but when you connect the monitor
output back to the input, you're feeding the playback of the previous
recording, which is what you want.

The newly recorded track is approximately 67ms behind the initial
click track.

That's dreadful. Something has too much latency.

If I perform the same experiment but rather than using
the Direct Monitor output I feed the output from my internal soundcard
back as the input signal, the newly recorded track is in sync with the
existing track.

That sounds like the latency is in playback. I'm not sure if that's a
good enough clue to help. I'm not a computer person.

The usual way of handling this is to slide the newly recorded track

Yes, I guess that will work. It seems a little clunky and manual

You shouldn't have to correct for 67 ms. Try making a call to TASCAM.
Sometimes you can still get good tech support there. When I had the
US-122 in for review, the only thing I had to do was tweak it a bit so
that it stopped glitching, and that was a tweak to decrease the
latency. So I don't really have any experience in fixing your problem.

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