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Latency during recording - makes playing in time impossible

I am recording or overdubbing guitar and vocal parts to rhythm tracks and hearing what I play with a delayed signal. The delay is a fraction of a second (hard to tell how much), and it makes playing in time impossible. Frankly, it's infuriating. I never had this issue back in the days of 4-track recording. If you can help me solve this issue I would be incredible grateful to you.

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I can relate well to this. I think the problem would mostly be between the software and sound card instead of the mixer, I'll tell you why. I have found over the years that each type of sound card will have different latency time, even if they are the same. Any time I have ever replaced a sound card, I always had to resync all of my tracks. Anytime I've changed to a different operating system, I went through the same thing. Most times I have changed connections through different mixers, inputs, interfaces, and connections TO the system has no or very little effect.

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I can totally relate, Tom. Good old multitrack recorders!
This may sound stupid, but you don't have like a slap back delay turned on by mistake, do you? Other than that, I'm afraid I'm not much help.

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This is a common problem with digital recording. Simply put, it takes some time to convert analog (audio) to digital and then more time to convert it back. So, your playback track goes through conversion and introduces some delay. You don't hear this because you have no zero reference. Your recorded sound goes through the A/D converter and also incurs some delay. When you play them back together, you hear the difference in time from one track to another. Most pro recording programs have some method to minimize or cancel the delay like slipping the tracks so they all start together. Pro Tools just introduced a version that automatically does this. They have always had what it called "low latency" monitoring which attempts to keep the "shortest" digital/analog path so overdubs are close enough that we don't hear any issues. So, since you talk about the mixer but not the recording program, I can't tell you specifics but I'd look into the recording program for time alignment settings and options. If you have a manual for the recording program, try to look up latency.

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This is a common problem with digital recording. Simply put, it takes some time to convert analog (audio) to digital and then more time to convert it back. So, your playback track goes through conversion and introduces some delay. You don't hear this because you have no zero reference. Your recorded sound goes through the A/D converter and also incurs some delay. When you play them back together, you hear the difference in time from one track to another. Most pro recording programs have some method to minimize or cancel the delay like slipping the tracks so they all start together. Pro Tools just introduced a version that automatically does this. They have always had what it called "low latency" monitoring which attempts to keep the "shortest" digital/analog path so overdubs are close enough that we don't hear any issues. So, since you talk about the mixer but not the recording program, I can't tell you specifics but I'd look into the recording program for time alignment settings and options. If you have a manual for the recording program, try to look up latency.
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