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I picked up an interface (a Zoom U-24) on the cheap a while back. Up until last night, anything I recorded with it was just whatever was coming through the interface to either the recorder on my phone or Audacity on my laptop. It works great for that.
Last night I tried to use it and record with a jam track. When I would do that, I was playing in time with the jam track, but when I would playback the recording, my playback was way behind the jam track. I could even play a bit in front of the beat, but it would come out like a beat behind on the recording. In order to post the recording, I ended up deleting the first 0.145 seconds of silence. That mostly lined my playing up with the track, but it still didn't quite mesh.
For those of you that record to jam tracks all the time, do you have to deal with latency, and what do you do? I've got a multitrack that I used to use that works great for that kind of thing, but it's a much bigger process to record to it (import the track, record, master and mixdown, and export), so I got the interface hoping to simply things a bit. Maybe it wasn't such a brilliant idea. Like I said, it works great so long as the entire signal is coming from the interface. The problem comes when I'm trying to play to a jam track on the laptop.
Anyone have any thoughts on what I could do to make it work better? The chain I was using last night was guitar and gear > Zoom U-24 interface > Audacity with the jam track being played in Audacity.
Last night I tried to use it and record with a jam track. When I would do that, I was playing in time with the jam track, but when I would playback the recording, my playback was way behind the jam track. I could even play a bit in front of the beat, but it would come out like a beat behind on the recording. In order to post the recording, I ended up deleting the first 0.145 seconds of silence. That mostly lined my playing up with the track, but it still didn't quite mesh.
For those of you that record to jam tracks all the time, do you have to deal with latency, and what do you do? I've got a multitrack that I used to use that works great for that kind of thing, but it's a much bigger process to record to it (import the track, record, master and mixdown, and export), so I got the interface hoping to simply things a bit. Maybe it wasn't such a brilliant idea. Like I said, it works great so long as the entire signal is coming from the interface. The problem comes when I'm trying to play to a jam track on the laptop.
Anyone have any thoughts on what I could do to make it work better? The chain I was using last night was guitar and gear > Zoom U-24 interface > Audacity with the jam track being played in Audacity.