Trouble Playing with the Metronome

[Imperial Star]

I have no real trouble keeping in time with metronome but after I recorded my self I realised that im playing in time but out of time with the metronome.

What I mean is that if I play quarters with the metronome my hits are just behind that of the metronome.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

[Kurrpt]

slow the metronome down until you are fully in synch with it, then slowly speed up.

if you aren't on beat with the metronome, you're off time.

[Lafirin]

thats weird, you mean you cant keep up with the ticks?

[crazyguy832]

That's not really wrong... just playing in front or behind the click.

Nothing wrong with that... unless, of course, you're trying to play exactly along with it.

Best option: slow down.

Matter of fact, though, it's good to practice slightly in front of and behind the click. Gives a different feel to the song, very fun.

[joe_04_04]

well, a lot of people feel under pressure when they record, its very natural and might be very easy to play it w/o recording, then be almost impossible when you are. Just get comfortable and try to relax...

[Imperial Star]

I'm pretty sure it was Audacity recording what I was playing a split second later to what I was listening to, I think someone actually made a thread about this.

[DxRocker]

Wait, the metronome... was it playing through audacity itself?
or was the metronome an EXTERNAL thing, that you also ran into audacity together with your drums?

In the first case, this indeed might be due to recording latency. If not (and thus in case you used an external metronome), then it is you who is going off beat.

The latency is something you can adjust in the program I *think*, I'm not very familiar with auda. I do know that the latency is to be blamed on your hardware though.
You won't have this problem with advanced audio cards running on decent machines (as in 3.0 ghz with good and much memory or more).

If I were you, I wouldn't start trying to fix the latency problem and just use an external metronome. You're gonna give yourself a headache trying to fix the problem in audacity itself.

I mean, *if* you get it fixed, the latency time will just change if you have another program open anyway, as that will eat up resources of your pc. That latency thingy is pretty much hardware/software related.

[Chippy569]

sounds like recording latency to me, as Dx hinted at. Info on your recording setup would help!

[Ollie The Drumming Legend]

Recording latency would most likely be a problem if your soundcard/RAM isn't up to the task.

[Talos]

If youre playing at the same point every click then it doesnt matter, youll still be in time.

[Josiah]

I'd suggest an external hard metronome for above mentioned reasons. There are some great ones that aren't very expensive.

The way to rereally lock in with a click is to make it dissapear. If you can't hear the click, that means you are in time.

[raz0r]

The way to rereally lock in with a click is to make it dissapear. If you can't hear the click, that means you are in time.

Either that or it ran out of batteries :p
And I never have a spare 9V around...

[maniac0796]

Steal one out the fire alarm :p

It's the cheapest and best source of 9v battery's.