Re: AW: coping with latency when using acoustic instruments

[paul <phaslem@wightman.ca>]

You might try in ear type monitors, I can't afford the fancy wireless type 
but I found that a decent wired in ear headphone a great deal of help, 
also 
lets you listen at lower decibels.

Paul Haslem
www.dulcify.ca



At 11:46 AM 8/6/2006, you wrote:

> > 1. Using a looper/recorder that compensates for input A/D latency.
> > 2. Do not listen to the direct input through the computer
> > system, because it won't be compensated until it's been
> > recorded (looped).
>
>You're right and this would work for me if I had a hardware channel strip
>(and hardware guitar amp), but this is not the case and not something I 
>want
>to change (it's all-laptop in my case). So most of the time, I want the
>audience to hear the voice sound through all the latency things. And so
>using latency compensation in Mobius (yes, I'm using Mobius as well)...
>
>I was thinking more of some way of tricky training or "way of thinking" or
>whatever that helps you not to listen to the sound of your own voice, only
>what you hear from the mains/monitors. Unfortunately, the human brain uses
>the timing information of the first signal, not of the loudest signal for
>deciding when we hear something, so to overcome this, I'd have to listen 
>to
>the mains/monitors at deafening levels, which I do not want to do.
>
>         Rainer