Pro tools Latency!

[NBASE]

I have a digi 002 system and I am running 7.3. I have been recording guita from Mic 1/Line 1. No matter what I do, there is still a annoying Latency there that I just cant get rid off. Its throwing my timing off. I tried Decreasing the buffer size down ridiculously. Seems to help a little but not that much. There are no effects running its input cleanly into the track. I dont know what to do any ideas. Every time i record o a click or a drum ot comes out wrong and subtly out of timing.

[jre3132]

have you tried low latency monitoring?

[rallycars]

I record my guitar amp using an original mBox. Since I can hear what I'm playing, i turn the knob on the mbox all the way to playback and mute the recording guitar track to avoid any latency affecting my playing. Not exactly the same situation, but maybe it helps.

[Jim Casey]

I record my guitar amp using an original mBox. Since I can hear what I'm playing, i turn the knob on the mbox all the way to playback and mute the recording guitar track to avoid any latency affecting my playing. Not exactly the same situation, but maybe it helps.

Low latency monitoring is mandatory as is a clean signal path, make your plugins inactive, especially the master fader and the track you are recording to - and do not have any analog send/returns active.

The other thing to consider is that you will always have some latency on the LE, the hardware isn't up to no latency, just low. So, in addition to playing hard on or ahead of the beat and making damn sure you record with a click (otherwise you have double latency) I will move the track (or sections of it) a smidge to the left or right in Slip mode. Just magnifiy in good and move it - sometimes you can tell from the waveform where your downbeats spike so make sure they hit on the lines (or between the lines or whatever your timing is) and you're good. One time I wanted a solo to really lay back so I moved the whole thing a little left of the beat.

[NBASE]

Thanks guys will give a try. Just thought there was a easier way to avoid it totally.

[Jim Casey]

I have a digi 002 system and I am running 7.3. I have been recording guita from Mic 1/Line 1. No matter what I do, there is still a annoying Latency there that I just cant get rid off. Its throwing my timing off. I tried Decreasing the buffer size down ridiculously. Seems to help a little but not that much. There are no effects running its input cleanly into the track. I dont know what to do any ideas. Every time i record o a click or a drum ot comes out wrong and subtly out of timing.

also watch out for reverb on the master or other channels - the pre-delay setting on the reverb will also add latency which will throw you off

[Craig F]

Thanks guys will give a try. Just thought there was a easier way to avoid it totally.

there is, it's called HD