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RE: Ask an Audio geek
April 19, 2016 at 3:28 pm
This is a bit of a specific one, anyone ever recorded into Audacity and noticed latency?
I kept recording a guitar track and noticed it was out of time, I experimented and nudged the wav backwards slightly to make it start earlier in relation to the metronome and it actually fit perfectly in time.
Unless I have some weird thing where my rhythm is constantly slow, that's the only other thing I could think of.
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RE: Ask an Audio geek
April 21, 2016 at 11:43 pm
(April 19, 2016 at 3:28 pm)paulpablo Wrote: This is a bit of a specific one, anyone ever recorded into Audacity and noticed latency?
I kept recording a guitar track and noticed it was out of time, I experimented and nudged the wav backwards slightly to make it start earlier in relation to the metronome and it actually fit perfectly in time.
Unless I have some weird thing where my rhythm is constantly slow, that's the only other thing I could think of.
Sorry... About the only experience I have with Audacity is recording a few Vinyl records to FLAC. I've had no issues with latency when doing that.
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RE: Ask an Audio geek
April 22, 2016 at 12:09 am
So I'm having one of those moments where I feel the need to make a change to my system which is nothing earth shattering at the moment. It's a bit of a hodgepodge when it comes to speakers. I have a 7.1 setup with three different pairs of speakers.
Right now I'm using a pair of Vintage Vandersteen 1b's for my surround speakers. I picked these up super cheap on craigslist, and I've had them for about five years. Richard Vandersteen makes some very nice and affordable speakers. His signature design philosophy is to put the money into the speaker drivers, crossover, and cabinet design instead of cabinet asthetics. What you get is a great sounding speaker that is surrounded by an audibly transparent "sock".
![[Image: Image_071-452x390.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.highfidelityreview.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2008%2F05%2FImage_071-452x390.jpg)
Here is a stock photo with the sock and without.
The 1b's sound fine for what they are asked to do, but that cloth sock is tough to keep clean in a house with a couple cats and two great danes. The other day I came home to find a six inch long dried chuck of drool on the fabric. I think they need to go
![[Image: drool2-e1326921223634.jpg]](https://milkathedane.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/drool2-e1326921223634.jpg)
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