mrmarshbank
Member
Hi!
I have a long history of using amp simulation software and equipment from VST plugins such as Scuffham S-Gear and BIAS to amps like Yamaha THR Head etc.. During my experiments I have discovered that soundwise the Scuffham S-Gear might be the best amp simulator available currently. However, like any other VST plugin, the round-trip latency and sound quality it is highly dependent on the audio interface / soundcard. When using a high quality PCI soundcard with proper DI box, the sound quality of Scuffham is hard to beat.
Playing without noticable latency (DAW report in-out total < 2ms) with Scuffham requires a desktop PC with PCI soundcard, and this is the reason I just got my AX8 this week. I had a wish, that I could replace the desktop PC + PCI + Mixer + DI-Box + Pedalboard -setup with single unit such as FAS AX8.
I read somewhere, that the overall latency through the AX8 should be around 2ms. However, when I started to create presets where the CPU percent was around 80% and multiple effects were enabled (delays, reverb), the processing latency of the unit was noticable. In my mind this means that the overall latency must be >> 2ms if it can be noticed with ear using headphones.
The setup I am using is AX8 --> Analog Mixer with Monitoring --> to PC. The latency that I discovered was through the analog mixer monitoring, not through PC.
Have anyone else experienced similar behaviour?
I have a long history of using amp simulation software and equipment from VST plugins such as Scuffham S-Gear and BIAS to amps like Yamaha THR Head etc.. During my experiments I have discovered that soundwise the Scuffham S-Gear might be the best amp simulator available currently. However, like any other VST plugin, the round-trip latency and sound quality it is highly dependent on the audio interface / soundcard. When using a high quality PCI soundcard with proper DI box, the sound quality of Scuffham is hard to beat.
Playing without noticable latency (DAW report in-out total < 2ms) with Scuffham requires a desktop PC with PCI soundcard, and this is the reason I just got my AX8 this week. I had a wish, that I could replace the desktop PC + PCI + Mixer + DI-Box + Pedalboard -setup with single unit such as FAS AX8.
I read somewhere, that the overall latency through the AX8 should be around 2ms. However, when I started to create presets where the CPU percent was around 80% and multiple effects were enabled (delays, reverb), the processing latency of the unit was noticable. In my mind this means that the overall latency must be >> 2ms if it can be noticed with ear using headphones.
The setup I am using is AX8 --> Analog Mixer with Monitoring --> to PC. The latency that I discovered was through the analog mixer monitoring, not through PC.
Have anyone else experienced similar behaviour?