[LAU] Finding the delay/latency of a Zoom

[fons at kokkinizita.net]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:52:50PM +0000, Gordon JC Pearce wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 14:31 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> 
> > Any ideas how to measure latency on this thing a "manual" way, not
> > using Fons's tool, and given that there's no way to turn off
> > monitoring, so I can't just pipe the line out into the line in as a
> > loop without getting some awful digital feedback.
> 
> Measure the period of the feedback?
> Play back a single click on a track, use the Zoom to record it from the
> speakers to another track and measure the delay?

Should work. Or rerecord it with line-out connected to 
line-in via an some attenuator to keep the loop gain just
below one. If you can set up such a connection it could
be measured with sample accuracy using aliki.

Ciao,

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