Recording Delay Problem

When I record, it's delayed.

When I record my guitar into audacity, it's delayed.

Let's say I record during the "May 07 Solo Assignment"

when I play it back, my soloing is all delayed and it sounds horrible because it's not on time

Is there any way to record without delay?
Or at least remove the delay accurately?

i face the same problem all the time...the way i rectify it is to use the (<->) cursor at the top left corner of the pane...that cursor will enable you to drag the track sideways in any direction to suit the tempo you want...still ud have to listen closely and make minor adjustments to fit two tracks together so they sync..it is quite a pain when recording over a few tracks but thats how i do it..

good luck with that

cheapo freeware like audacity and Kristal do that. its a bug that you really can't do much about- its just annoying. you learn to work around it by dragging it and stuff like josh said.

Maybe give a run down on your hardware. COmputer, sound card or however you get your sound into the computer Lightsnake, Pod and so on. I was a Kristal user till I got Reaper and never had a latency problem. You can download Reaper for free and try that but I bet the problem is elsewhere.

Reaper

Thank you so much, there's no delay at all.

This program is what i've been looking for, thanks alot.

The 'out of synch' is usually caused by the output/input driver you chose for the recording software.
What you want to chose (if the soundcard supports) is ASIO (not the multimedia or full duplex ones) As mine is ASIO 2.0
Then with that ASIO driver, you can adjust your buffer size (latency) with that.

The ASIO driver is the one making sure it is all synched when recorded.
The lower you put your buffer, the more cpu power is required So I would start from 256 and work my way downwards (To low will result in cpu usage 'spikes' which in term produces clicks in the audio.

If you card does'nt support ASIO, the option is to download the asio4all driver from www.asio4all.com and use that one