Recorded guitar is off beat...

[astrozombie]

Why? I mean this isn't a bad computer.

2 gb ram, load of free memory.

it isnt congested or anything. All im running is line 6 gearbox and mixcraft.

the sample rates are set the same. everything is equal.

how come when i record guitar, it sounds fine when im recording through the monitors, but when i play it back its slightly off beat?

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: Recorded guitar is off beat...

Can you time align it to make it right? Every DAW has a provision for manually time-aligning.

If the answer is "no, I can't time-align it in a way that it fits the whole track," then it's your playing that's the problem --- modulating tempo

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

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Latency issues dude.
Sort 'em out and the problem will go away

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Recorded guitar is off beat...

tried out a bunch of stuff.

got nowhere.

now my program says im loosing ASIO buffers and produces errors when recording.

 

[mrturtle_91]

Re: Recorded guitar is off beat...

Why? I mean this isn't a bad computer.

2 gb ram, load of free memory.

it isnt congested or anything. All im running is line 6 gearbox and mixcraft.

the sample rates are set the same. everything is equal.

how come when i record guitar, it sounds fine when im recording through the monitors, but when i play it back its slightly off beat?

I have the exact same problem when using POD Farm and Audacity. If your computer is connected to the internet via a wireless adapter, try disabling it while recording. That will free up some memory and it definitely helps a little.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Recorded guitar is off beat...

I have the exact same problem when using POD Farm and Audacity. If your computer is connected to the internet via a wireless adapter, try disabling it while recording. That will free up some memory and it definitely helps a little.

I'll give this a try and post results tomorrow.

I dont understand how this happens. it's ridiculous. I can record on my crappy 10 year old desktop with only 768 mb of RAM just fine, but my notebook, with windows 7 and all kinds of resources my desktop doesnt have... cant handle it?

 

[That90'sGuy]

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Latency is a b. Line 'em up in your DAW and continue on... nothing big to worry about.

 

[serizawa]

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http://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=200069

Disregard that it says Pro Tools and just tread onwards.

This helped out my recording programs a lot. YMMV, however.

 

[astrozombie]

Re: Recorded guitar is off beat...

http://duc.digidesign.com/showthread.php?t=200069

Disregard that it says Pro Tools and just tread onwards.

This helped out my recording programs a lot. YMMV, however.

Can't help me on this laptop though. I'm using Windows 7, which none of that applies to.

ill try this on my desktop though. thanks!

 

[serizawa]

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I used Vista and the above helped me a lot. It should probably still work, as I doubt they could have made 7 that drastically different. I don't really have any idea, though.

Good luck, haha.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

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According to the commercials for Windose 7, all they did was make the easy stuff way more easy for the technologically inept.

I mean the one guy couldn't figure out how to Tile two Windows, the other guy couldn't figure out a simple home network so he could print or share music/videos among the other computers, and the English chick in the cab couldn't look at her Taskbar to see what's open. Durrrr!

Windows 7 - Makes stupid people look smart.

 

[serizawa]

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That's what I thought about Vista. Everything's basically the same, they just replaced a lot of options and menus with cute, high-resolution pictures.

Windows Vista - We don't know why we made it, either.

 

[GoldenVulture]

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That's what I thought about Vista. Everything's basically the same, they just replaced a lot of options and menus with cute, high-resolution pictures.

Windows Vista - We don't know why we made it, either.

You can run it with "Classic View".:cool2: More like XP.

 

[astrozombie]

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the control panel in windows 7 doesnt read the way the vista one does. theres no classic view. im sure those tweaks can be done by hand, by looking for the exact paramter myself. Ill try it out when I have the time... otherwise I just dont understand what's giong on.

Maybe it's my software?

With that said, what's the best quality most user friendly DAW? I ask because though I have some knowledge on recording techniques and mixing and such, I often get baffled by all the buttons and wheels on screen. I wish it were simpler, that i could easily see where to adjust settings and where the mixer is and where the "rec" "solo" and mute buttons are... etc.

 

[serizawa]

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You can run it with "Classic View".:cool2: More like XP.

Hehe, I did that the second I got my computer. :cool2:

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

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There seem to be a lot a lot of horror stories with ppl recording with Windows 7, especially with Line 6 gear.

 

[astrozombie]

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There seem to be a lot a lot of horror stories with ppl recording with Windows 7, especially with Line 6 gear.

:eyecrazy::banghead:

 

[Petrovsk Mizinski]

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You can run it with "Classic View".:cool2: More like XP.

And it helps free up resources too boot.
I always run my Vista PC with the Aero mode off

 

[astrozombie]

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And it helps free up resources too boot.
I always run my Vista PC with the Aero mode off

I tried this. I think you guys are on to something. It worked well for a while.

 

[Funkfingers]

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The issue is latency - specifically, monitoring latency.

The Pro Tools switch off list is intended to reduce timing errors by preventing a computer's CPU from wasting valuable processing capacity on unnecessary background tasks.

IMO, the nub of this matter is monitoring. My laptop home studio is a MacBook running Logic version blah, blah. (No, for once, this is not a PC bashing exercise!) I feed all audio and MIDI signals into and out of the laptop via a MOTU Traveller FireWire interfacing box. I plug my headphones into the MOTU box NOT the computer. Thus, even though there is latency when replaying the backing track and latency processing the incoming audio, these cancel each other out in the interface box. The result is that my recordings synchronise as they should.

As a general rule, I do not employ built-in digital amplifier modelling software. Instead, I carry out a strange, age-old ceremonial ritual that involves shoving a Shure SM57 in front of a valve combo.