Techniques for Ensuring Guitar Recording Alignment

[Zander1]

Hello,

Recently I've been doing a lot of research into understanding latency, latency compensation, playback tracking, etc. in an effort to further ensure that my audio recordings are as properly aligned as possible and accurate to the way I played them. I've done some projects recently where I'll be recording a lot of guitar takes and notice that with each one of them, I have to move it a bit to the right (it's too early). At first I thought maybe it was just my own player error of playing too early but it's so consistent I'm starting to think it's a technical misalignment.

My question is: Is there any way to objectively measure how aligned your electric guitar audio recordings are with the playlist? I use an interface by the way, I'm not using a microphone to record an amplifier. I know there's a technique where you can use a microphone to record the FL click and check alignment that way, and I did try that to find those recordings were just very slightly late. So it seems like even though I'm using the same interface and audio settings, the different inputs of a microphone w/ XLR cable vs. a guitar cable might result in different alignment? The real issue is I don't want to just try to play my guitar along to the FL click and see how that aligns with the playlist because then I have no way of knowing if it was my own player error that caused a slight misalignment or something else.

If anyone has some tips for me that'd be greatly appreciated. Hate the idea of getting a perfect guitar take just for it to be subtly shifted out of time by a technical misalignment that I might not notice soon enough.

Also as a quick side note, I tried messing with the playback tracking Offset option in audio settings. I set it to max 200% just to see an obvious example of what that would change, but there was no change in the microphone audio alignment tests. Should that have shifted the alignment one way or the other and thus that settings isn't working as it should be? Or am I misunderstanding the use for that setting and it's not suppose to effect recorded audio alignment?

[nu.id]

Zander1 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:01 am Hello,...

[Nogyoff]

Zander1 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:01 am Hello,...

[Zander1]

If anyone's interested, I actually figured out ...

[jbarkerhill92]

Also as a quick side note, I tried messing wit...

[Zander1]

jbarkerhill92 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:15 am ...

[jbarkerhill92]

The point is: You can do a FL metronome feedb...

[Zander1]

jbarkerhill92 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 4:55 am ...

[steevm]

To answer your question about timing when monit...

[m@RV]

I move it till it sounds good.

[Zander1]

steevm wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:16 pm I reco...

[jbarkerhill92]

That wouldn’t make sense to say that all softwa...

[Zander1]

jbarkerhill92 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 1:00 am ...

[jbarkerhill92]

I think Gol, the guy who invented and programme...

[Zander1]

jbarkerhill92 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 5:55 am ...

[jbarkerhill92]

Hm, well I’m using a mic into an audio interfac...

[jbarkerhill92]

This vid talks about using input delay compensa...

[steevm]

Zander1 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 11:25 pm Just ...

[steevm]

Also, ignore the nonsense about digital audio s...

[jbarkerhill92]

Can’t you just do edit > undo recorded stuff...

[steevm]

jbarkerhill92 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:38 pm ...

[jbarkerhill92]

Yeah, I got that part wrong, and edited my repl...

[steevm]

Let's not derail this thread with further disin...

[jbarkerhill92]

It’s not derailing the thread. His original que...

[DjNotSo]

jbarkerhill92 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 6:44 am ...

[DjNotSo]

jbarkerhill92 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 05, 2022 1:15 am ...

[Zander1]

jbarkerhill92 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:38 pm ...

[Zander1]

steevm wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:21 pm As sai...

[Zander1]

DjNotSo wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 6:21 pm Playb...

[DjNotSo]

Zander1 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:13 pm DjNot...

[steevm]

Zander1 wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 11:00 pm I've ...

[Zander1]

Well I guess where I'm at right now on the issu...

[jbarkerhill92]

As an update for recording guitar, I think I ju...

[Redology]

Just thought I would share my guitar experiment...