I finally recorded somethinggggg!!!!

[Shreddy Mercury]

I have never digitally recording anything myself other than just laying down a couple tracks over at friends' houses. I finally did it today! I got my Katana Mk 2 hooked up to this spare PC and got Reaper set up to pick up the Katana and output through just the basic onboard sound of my pc through the studio monitors. I finally figured out how to get Reaper to actually record, or just play back through the monitors but there is horrible latency. I am jamming on my amp and hit a note and there is a definite delay from when it comes through the monitors. I need to figure out how to cut that down, or am I doomed to just having to deal with this? Is the Katana powerful enough to play with zero latency?

 

[JackBootedThug]

I personally discovered the best way for me to record is get my I-phone pro fag 14 and hit record. Every time I try to use reaper or audacity it sounds like shit....user error of course.....

 

[midnightlaundry]

Welcome to recording.
Latency is adjusted in your Interface Software.
Look into a descent 2-channel USB Interface. They are all probably the same at that level and they go up from there.
Pick one!

https://www.sweetwater.com/c695--US...JmYWNldCI6eyJOdW1iZXIgb2YgUHJlYW1wcyI6WzJdfX0

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

So I still have to buy a damn interface to get rid of this latency? That's the reason I bought this Katana, so I could have an amp AND interface so I could have a practice amp upgrade while being able to record. If the issue is the amp itself, I may as well just take it back and return it.

 

[midnightlaundry]

It is what it is.
You'll want to run plugins for effects and you will want more channels to record multiple sources at once..
Assuming your Katana has a modeled Direct Out, you can plug into the Interface direct and not mess with a Microphone for now..
Use a real Amp with Mics, and you'll need a Preamp anyways..

 

[TheGreatGreen]

Can’t you use ASIO monitoring mode to directly monitor the tracks armed for recording? That should eliminate lag.

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

Well I saw where you can modify the Boss driver settings and get it down to where people say it should be, but anytime I switch what Reaper is looking at from Wave Table or whatever, which will let me use the Katana as an input and have output on monitors, to anything else like ASIO or whatever, the playback goes away and I get no sound through the monitors even though Reaper is recording something. I just get no playback at all. This is turning out to be a huge pain in the ass to just get some simple guitar parts onto my computer.

 

[RaceU4her]

go to options in reaper, then preferences. click on "device" and youll see request block size, make sure that is on 32 when recording, that should stop the latency. to monitor while your recording you gotta turn the record monitoring on the track your using

 

[cobrahead1030]

Well I saw where you can modify the Boss driver settings and get it down to where people say it should be, but anytime I switch what Reaper is looking at from Wave Table or whatever, which will let me use the Katana as an input and have output on monitors, to anything else like ASIO or whatever, the playback goes away and I get no sound through the monitors even though Reaper is recording something. I just get no playback at all. This is turning out to be a huge pain in the ass to just get some simple guitar parts onto my computer.

It's more difficult than it should be starting out, a couple of simple errors will have you stumped for days over the dumbest little thing. If you stick with it, you'll learn a lot over time and it's a skill worth having.

Guys who can record basic tracks are so much more productive to work with.

 

[Monkey Man]

Congrats Matt! Big moment, I know.

The guys' advice is spot-on. Such head stumpers can usually be attributed to monitoring-option settings, no matter which DAW you use.