Nicko

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Jump - Van Halen

Eels like Heaven - Fiction Factory

All about the Bass - Mehgan Trainor

Anyone who has been (un)fortunate enough to hear me putting words to music would realise I have no training, fail to hit the right notes frequently and don't even make up for it with a voice that is distinctive. It may not count as singing by some people's standards but that's what I call it.

Day Oh - Harry Belafonte

Dirty Dirty Water - Quo

The problem I had was not in what I hear when recording, its what I hear when I play back.

Thanks @lowdown, I've adjusted the buffer size. The latency shown on the interface window is significantly lower, and the issue I had seems to be less though not completely eliminated when playing an instrument on an audio track (I can see it on the audio track but not really hear it). Somewhat strangely there is no global defeat for the Latency Compensation - it's described in the manual and I just can't find it on a toolbar but I did find it on the track window where you pointed to. Possibly because I have a cheapo version of Cubase. Even stranger, with the latency compensation defeated anything played via the midi port is defeated so it looks like the compensation is double what it should be. I can live with it on the MIDi as I don't do anything too complex and can shift the notes manually or via the track delay function.

I only really use a tuner and an EBS MultiComp. I don't really use much compression but I use it to thicken up the sound a bit https://www.compressorpedalreviews.com/post/ebs-multicomp-dual-band-compressor

That's modern by the standards of the box I'm using.😀

By advance I mean shift to the right (ie delay it). Otherwise your understanding seems correct. I wondered if there were a latency compensation as there is in some DAWs but if there is in this version of Cubase I can't locate it and it's not detailed in the manual. There is an auto compensation and this could be the problem, but it cannot be adjusted you can only set a threshold. That only deals with VST latency and not interface latency. You may be right that it's simply me anticipating what I hear but I doubt I'm actually that consistent - especially across bass, guitar and keys.

Thanks S'manth The software and interface are 10 years old, and the computer is due a replacement but that is on hold until I move house. RAM is 8GB and I'll be looking to up this to at least 16GB as part of the upgrade.. I'd have thought that the issue would be more variable if it were a demand issue - increasing teh impact when I'm running more VSTs and less when I'm not which is partly why I'm baffled. I've noticed recently means I've always had the problem but not really understood what the problem was.

I'm using Cubase 7 LE Elements on a Windows 8 PC with limited RAM, via a Focusrite 2i2. MIDI keyboard goes direct through USB not via the interface. I've noticed recently that when record an audio track or play via the MIDI keyboard it's out of time with any track programmed through the piano roll, and this is the bit I don't understand, the audio is before the beat. If I advance the audio by 30mS I can correct the error but I really can't understand why it's not a delay. According to the device manager the input latency is around 20mS and output is around 30mS. Is it a latency issue or my poor technique (which seems remarkably consistent across instruments).

Doctor Beat - Miami Sound Machine

I'm in. I started with a vocal line "I saw the Devil in the street, He wore Addidas upon his feet", and then junked that and came up with some Neo classical rock nonsense. Part Carmina Burana, part Diary of a Madman and mostly an example of why I should have stuck to bass rather than playing lead guitar. Enjoy, or not.

London is a big place and gigging could mean playing a pub in the suburbs in which case forget late night public transport, or in central London. Night busses and tubes run the centre to certain places in the outer boroughs but not all. Having grown up and lived in outer London most of my life I'd say you just need to be a bit streetwise. Chances are anyone wanting to rob you would probably want cash, your phone, and your flashy watch. There are certain places I wouldn't go at all late at night and as long as you don't live in the middle of one of those areas you just need to avoid them. You can't really generalise on the safety of individual boroughs - most have good and bad bits. Subways, alleys, industrial areas and some housing estates are obvious places to avoid. I spent a couple of days in La Paz which is considered much more unsafe than London but I never felt in any danger. One guy in the group was mugged twice in a day - I guess that says more about him than it does about La Paz.

Another non bass related experience. Mrs Nicko somehow managed to set fire to the grill on our oven which melted a few of the control knobs. She rang Rangemsater to enquire about the price of replacements and they popped them in the post for nowt.

Another vote for Wunjo who gave me a really good trade in on my bass, and did a great job with a pickup upgrade. Old fashioned no pressure friendly service. IK Multimedia - they offer quite a lot of free software so that you buy more expensive stuff. The online support I've received on the free software is top notch.

One of my mates has a covers band that gets a lot of festival work - they recorded in a studio and cobbled together a montage of live video footage laid over the top. That worked well.

One of my cover bands did a demo. We all played live in the studio - primarily as we were not used to playing the tracks individually. Drummer in a booth, Bass was DI and singer was in a different room. I'm not sure what you could possibly lose by doing this rather than playing individually one after the other. When doing home recordings I still struggle to lay down a consistent part individually. I often record bits of it knocked into a rough song format and then play the whole thing through on each instrument once I have the complete structure. I generally don't count when playing bass - I'm always listening for cues from the rest of the band.

I meant the method of production was cheap. The sales price of the instrument is dependant on the market, not the production cost.

That is the one I have - good for the money, and I don't really care that it says Squier on the headstock. Shame they only make it in black though.

I've done a few freebies for charity, and in the same way worked at a museum for a few years for free. Some things are worth doing even if you don't get paid for it.