After recording with my SAW/SAC for month's my church worship leader wants to run the SAC system for monitors and FOH. We had our first dry run last night and the singers kind of freaked out with the latency in the system. I was running 4 x 32 on my samples. We kept lowering the number of samples until we got to 1 x 32. The system performed flawlessly at that rate but the singers were still not happy. I am running the following converters.
MOTU 424 INTERFACE PCI-e CARD
BEHRINGER 8200 ADA CONVERTERS
MOTU 2408 MK3
I'm thinking the 1 x 32 sample rate should be well inside the 5 ms range. The new ADA8200 claim .6 ms in and .6 ms out. The 1 x 32 sample would be 0.7 ms. I'm going to give the MOTU stuff around 2 ms just for guessing. That is 3.9 ms. You shouldn't be able to hear that.
Up on the stage it is more like you can feel the latency instead of hearing it. Are the singers expecting too much? Or am I missing something?
Other than that the system sounded great. It was so clear. There was no noise or anything. It was kind of weird hearing something so clear verses the old analog system. I think that might have made the singers a little skiddish also, no junk or analog warmth to smooth over everyone's voice. I think he drummer and key board player loved it. They finally got the monitor mixs they wanted.
What do you think? Too picky or too much latency?
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