8 Jun
2009
8 Jun
'09
10:58 p.m.
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
2009/5/28 Asmo Koskinen
<asmo.koskinen(a)arkki.info>
I'm coming into this thread a bit late (behind on my email), but for
anyone interested in why latencies below 20ms can matter in recording,
take a nice digital delay -- I have a TC Electronics D-Two and a
Symmetrix 606 -- and setup a stereo slapback echo with it for vocals.
Set up a spread of about 10-20ms. Sounds nice, huh? Imagine how
wonderful that can sound between your tracks when you're not even
wanting it... :(
Usually it's not so obvious when the material isn't just the same sound
delayed, as it is between channels in a stereo delay, but it's still
annoying. You're playing time domain tricks with your tracks that you
hadn't even wanted.
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This time latency is 8 ms. Where, when and why
someone needs something
like 3 ms?
Here we aim at 1.6ms with the hope of at least 2.7ms
If you do monitoring and using real time fx while recording one or more
tracks with a mixing console then 8ms is really a bad latency.