Recorded tracks delayed

[Xoria]

Hello everyboby,

please to meet you, i'm just using pro tools for recording, and i've got an issue, let me explain

when i'm recording everything is fine,

when listening the recorded files are delayed "X"ms

i read a old article of 2009 that suggest that a compressor could be in cause, i did some test without compressor, not better
https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/ar...oting/en333123

Anybody Knows Where i can set recording delay in Pro tools ?

Any other idear to fix it ?

best regards,

Xavier

[Darryl Ramm]

Delayed relative to what exactly? What exactly are you recording and exactly are you measuring?

What *exact* delay… in samples and what sample rate. Often the exact delay in samples gives a good clue what is happening. Easily all measured in Pro Tools.

How were you monitoring audio while recording? Through Pro Tools/software monitoring? Was LLM enabled?—it will disable plugins in the recording path while tracking. Or through a hardware mixer in the interface?

Do you have delay compensation turned on? That will correct for plugin latency and H/W insert latency. But even better while getting started get this working fine with a trivial simple test session and no plugins at all in the session, and no sends, and no H/W inserts.

That bizzarely unhelpful KB Article you linked to should be pointing out that plugins on the outputs/master fader cannot/do not get compensated for… no DAW can cause time travel and just remove absolute latency, all it can do is slow down fastest signal paths to match the slowest. And some limiters/compressors plugins intended for mastering can have huge large latency because of their look-ahead algorithms. You should not be tracking with those style plugins at all. And you should probably not be tracking with any other plugins on the master fader either….

[Xoria]

Thank you for your request,
the audio tracks recorded are delayed from tempo/drum track about 100/150 ms
i use protools monitoring,

i read that subjet to,
https://avid.secure.force.com/pkb/ar...e-Insert-Delay

[Xoria]

i forget to mention,
i record guitar and voice on drum, tempo, etc...

[Darryl Ramm]

100-150ms... no come on you need to measure this exactly in Pro Tools, measuring the difference between waveforms in number of samples as accurately as you can, and tell us the sample rate. I already explained why.

what interface are you using?

And all the other questions... esp. do you have latency compensation enabled?

Why are you looking at a KB article about HW Insert latency? Are you using H/W inserts? If so what outboard device and what H/W delay value did you measure and enter for that H/W insert latency? If you are not using a H/W insert then this is all totally irrelevant.

You need to describe what you are doing in enough detail somebody here has any chance of following. Like what plugins are used on the track with delay problems.

If you are trying to bypass plugins to test for sources of delay... you need to make them inactive not bypass them.

What happens when you do the simplest test with a session with just a click track and one audio track you record to. And no plugins. Get that working first. almost all these issues are user mistakes so work through this stuff starting with a trivial session so you can learn about latency/delay comp etc.

[Xoria]

to be precise i mesure delay of 1/10 a time in music,

i got a focusrite clarett 8pre usbc

the delay compensation is enable

i got a new information, i did some test on buffler size which is 256 by default on PT

When i move them to 64, the recorded tracks are no longer shift recorded, but the quality of the sound is degraded like lowpassed, not a solution.

Night is on here, thank you see you soon