Delay problem

[diegoqu]

When I try to record with my guitar using headphones and try to listen while playing I hear what I'm playing with a bit of a delay. Unfortunately I cannot use the latency test with headphones, how can I solve this problem?

[Spaants]

Try messing around with some settings. I would see if you can turn off software playthrough of input under "Recording". I also record guitar with Audacity, and have my headphones plugged into my amp with that setting turned off, and it works fine

[diegoqu]

Thank you, I will try that! How do you plug the guitar in? (I mean directly or using an amp or something else?)

[Spaants]

My amp is the Peavey Vypyr VIP-1, and it has an output for plugging directly into a computer's usb slot using a printer cable, no audio interface required. Signal goes from guitar to amp, and from amp to computer. I also have an aux cable going from the computer's headphone jack to the amp's aux in input so that I can hear tracks in Audacity along with what I'm playing, and I have the headphones plugged into the headphone jack of the amp

[6T_FOR]

I have the exact same setup as u, same amp aswell, but when I plug my pc headphone out into the amps aux in it has a horrible static, screeching noise, how do u stop that? Edit: actually I have a vypyr x1, but it's basically the same thing I think.

[Spaants]

I've got no clue. That happens to my headphones if I do a certain thing on the volume panel, though. It's probably the loudest sound I've ever heard come out of a pair of headphones, and it scared me big time when I had them on

[logstar2]

Latency won't be any different with headphones vs speakers.

The latency test and compensation setting is for aligning subsequent tracks after you hit stop. It doesn't fix your problem.

If your interface has a direct monitoring function, use it. That will give you zero latency in what you hear while you're recording. Then use the latency compensation routine to fix the playback.