Jarred has introduced a delay in the vocals of his track. What can he do to make sure that the delay is noticeable?
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In summary, audio latency is a time delay, usually in tens of milliseconds, between the creation of a sound and its playback or recording.
That sounds confusing and it is because it's a general definition to catch all of the various types of latency.
Consider standing at the Grand Canyon and yelling "Hello?" and waiting a few moments before hearing your own voice bounce back to you. That is one form of latency that you encounter in live performances in large venues. If you're far enough from the stage, you'll see the guitarist pick a note but you won't hear it till a moment later. This happens due to the difference between the speed of light traveling faster to your eye versus the speed of sound playing catch up to your ears.
These forms of latency aren't an issue because all sound sources are afflicted by the same amount of delay. The type of latency you'll deal with as a recording engineer will involve the accumulated delays that result in playback monitoring slightly lagging behind the other tracks that already exist. Even though this may only be a fraction of a fraction of a second, it can ruin a performance by confusing players or at least make them sound horrible to the audience.
Answer:
ensure the delay is not timed to the tempo of the track
Explanation:
If they were timed together, the two audio parts would begin at the same time with no delay at all.