Thanks for the comments
(and sorry about the typos, it's as likely they're mine as Keithie's -- I edited some of the thread -- rest assured, we both have your name correct when speaking).
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Originally Posted by jtmckinley
You experienced the bane of digital recording with the 100+ ms delay on your voice, that's always a problem with a DAW (and apparently with Nicecast as well) to varying degrees, but there are solutions.
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What you noted above is different between a "self-engineered live performance" and a recording session.
When recording, I can give every member of a band a different "zero-latency" headphone mix - (mostly MOTU outboard gear here). That is fine, even if I'm one of the players - because the final processed mix is done from a multi-tracked recording (so who cares what delays are introduced by FX and so on).
In this case we were live - and needed to listen to the final mix ( no luxury of a separate mixing engineer
) - and even though I'd set the DAW (and system) audio buffers to circa 6ms - some plugin, effect or aspect of Nicecast was upsetting that by adding its own latency.
I could have added a "zero-delay" feed to bypass this but, obviously, all that does is to give a false impression of the balance (and one of echo) on the final mix.
The effect was noted "for the record" (and because people expressed an interested in what we were using to do the show). It was a minor (and geeky) irritation that didn't stop the fun of the day at all..
cheers,
Jam