Delay Compensation Threshold?

[JBroll]

I've been having some problems synchronizing recorded tracks against each other in Cubase SX and I'm guessing that I can take care of it with this bit in the preferences - basically when I try to overdub or start one part right at the end of another one I get that little drop-out or I have it completely off-time, and when I'm multitracking I have to mute all prerecorded stuff except the click and drums because when I play against a track I just put down it ends up being off significantly and it sounds like I'm playing in a cave. Is there a good way to check and align this, or do I pretty much just have to tinker with it for a while to get it just right?

At present it's just at 0 (it came that way and I'm not sure how far up to go with it) and I'm going straight from an SM57 right at the grille on my amp to the sound card on my computer (no-no, I know, I'm just strapped for cash and haven't gotten a preamp yet). Any suggestions as to what to do with this setting? Or any other way to help synchronize tracks against each other?

Jeff

 

[xmarcelx]

Shitty soundcard? I dunno what the technical problem is but maybe you can just move the tracks after recording so that they're in time again! If you played tight that's not a problem just look at the waveform and take a listen if it's correct!
You could also record a track again and look how much the latency is! On a correct setup there should be no latency!

 

[JBroll]

Probably is just a shitty soundcard, but the main problems come up when I have to multitrack polyrhythmic stuff - hard enough to play as it is without trying to figure out what goes where. I've been told good things about the Audiophile 2496 (I believe it's called) so I'm saving for a good number of things and that'll probably end up on the list, unless enough people here say it's cancer and needs to stay as far away from me as possible.

Jeff

 

[xmarcelx]

The Audiophile 2496 looks like something I want too!