Love your vids Wavy. You musta hadda good prof in college. I know you’ve got years of study and use after that, too but I’ve been reading the Pro Tools books and your Pro Tools vocab in all your vids is on point!
Great tips here! If you want ZERO latency I would suggest Direct or "Discreet" monitor mixing to completely eliminate latency....for good! Monitor outside of your DAW before the signal gets to the computer. Monitor EVERYTHING outside of the computer. That's the secret. Get a 6-8 channel non-powered mixer that has auxiliary or effect output buses with a summing channel. 1. Plug your mic into your Mixer Channel 1 2. Set auxiliary output to max for Channel 1 3. Send Mixer Auxiliary outputs to Audio Interface (Audio interface is connected to PC with USB/Firewire) 3. Plug the output of your Audio Interface into the summing channel on your Mixer (So you get computer sound into your mixer) 4. Turn OFF "Listen" or "Monitor" button in your DAW (So now your not hearing the vocal back from the PC) 5. Send headphone mix from mixer. ZERO Latency
How do you do this running 11+ tracks? I'm recording drums and basically a full band setup... using a zoom L20R.... found the best way is to use the DAW to master anything played.... not really recommended to run a DAW live for bigger setups...
Man.... my man! You have just brighten my day. I never understood that buffer size thing.. low for record, high for mixing.. i feel illuminated 🤓 thanks for your video and simple explanation that solved my problem!! Peace and strenght ✌💪
Honestly you should do one where you include the check boxes, delay compensation, I can have no plug ins, 64 sample rate, and no plugins and still have the latency. It's even making my recordings off time
Thank you SO much for this information as it helped completely remove any latency issues that just suddenly developed. Once I put your suggestion to work, the only problem was that now there is no sound at all and the play button lags even when the file plays with no sound. It's a trade-off, but at least there is no latency. Thanks! Yeah, the other poster is SO right. You should be teaching in university where you belong.
Truth, however, I have worked with musicians, especially drummers, that notice even a 64 or 32 sample buffer. Best to use low latency mode and run the DAW as a side chain to the recording process. You can get zero latency with this method. (IE, the interface feeds your monitoring directly and you don't hear the signal through the DAW. At least until after it goes down, so only during playback. Worth mentioning in the video. Good job on it though!
Thanks Wayne great help, question. I've have Pro-Tools 12.5 & Scarlett 2i4 for a year now and for almost a year no Latency and all of a sudden I get latency how can that happen if I never went in and changed anything ? . . . Thanks for any help on this.
thanks so much! i havent had to deal with these issue for a while and forgot how to fix them! it turned out i just had way too many plug ins from old idea tracks i wasnt even using
LOL heres me all pissed off cus my computer only let me scale it back to 256 samples im like "great.. so wtf imma do now, latency so terrible i cant even record without it messin my timing up" then I just happen to be listening LAST 20 SECONDS OF THE VIDEO when he says "it might be ur plugs , make em inactive" i turn nectar 3 off and boom... sounds normal again! LOOOL appreciate it brobro
I know this video is old but I want to say thank you King I appreciate your work I've been tuned into you lately because I've been back in the studio doing my music definitely going to link up with you and do some business in share some money with you
Is this the reason why my recorded audio went into the computer late and off beat? Every time i end my recording it shifts to the right or left and I have to readjust it to be on beat. I’m in desperate need of an answer😭
as a drummer I can hear the latency at 128. I have tried everything to correct it but going lower just taps out every now and then. If I decide to record more than just drums like the full band... its all recorded then run to the daw after we have recorded it.
Peace King! I express infinite love & and gratitude for you sharing this. I'm experiencing this issue when I create a new pro tools session. The lowest my Focusrite Scarlett is allowing me to go is 256. I didn't have this issue before. Do you have any idea what else it can be besides plug-ins?
I couldn't get rid of my latency. That is why they have hardware direct monitoring, You have to mute the DAW channel when recording. Every interface gives you software that lets you work this way. Your thoughts?
I lower my buffer size but it still feel like I hear "a doubled vocal sound" I got a Scarlett 2i4 and the direct monitoring knob is turned all the way on playback.....I only hear this in pro tools...when I try it in logic this way I don't hear it.....what's up with that?
It worked for me. I had an ultramaximizer on my master track (bypassed) but once I made it inactive the echo went away. None of the plugins I had on my actual vocal track affected it surprisingly. Try making every plugin inactive while you’re recording.
I find it harder to record with a tiny delay because the sound in my head / body messes with the sound in my ears because they are so close together it's like a phase or comb filter
I have to change between my audio interface (Steinberg UR22C) and ASIO4ALL while producing and recording, as my audio interface is always stuck at a particular sample rate selected in it's driver software itself.
Yow wavy can u do a tutorial on how to set up apollo mk2 to make use of the box itself. I know it can do a bunch of stuff to omit latency but it seem so complex
Why do I have high latency even though my buffersize is low..and no plugins on the track..? If I click Low latency monitoring it stops but it does make the recording so quiet ... And in another session I didn't have this issue and didn't have to use Low latency monitoring ....🤔
In a lot of videos I see of engineers like Leslie brathwhite and Alex Tumay they say they always record with autotune for like lil uzi or young thug. Is the bc of their interfaces or custom MacBook Pros like drakes engineer 40 has?
