RE: Looping Laptops in general (WAS Products, Services, and Looping Gear "Packages")

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

I once figured out that the 8ms latency of a good
laptop system would make it appear that your sound was
happening about 2.7 meters away from its true origin.

Think of it as getting a bigger studio.

--- Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> wrote:


> > Then there's the latency. Any perceptible amount
> seems insurmountable
> > to me. I wouldn't want to have to do a workaround
> if one day I decided
> > to start singing into the thing, then realizing I
> need to "adjust" to
> > compensate, as was discussed earlier this week.
>  
> If I understood correctly, the latency issue being
> discussed had
> nothing to do with laptops, but with the "air
> latency" between an
> accoustic instrument (such as a voice) and a monitor
> speaker
> far enough away that the speed of sound causes  a 
> perceptable delay.
> You would have the same problem with a dedicated
> hardware device.
>  
> Jeff
> 
> 


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