Difference between revisions of "Zero latency"

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-Before the advent of digital audio; most people were not concerned with the very small, but finite delay between when an analog audio signal entered a piece of analog audio equipment and when the corresponding signal exited. Analog delays are extremely short in terms of human perception and are therefore, for all practical purposes, non-existent. For this reason, most people would consider analog audio circuitry to have “zero latency.”
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-By contrast, there are a number of approaches to generating a [[low-latency]] monitor mix used in headphone cue mix monitoring during recording and overdubbing with a digital audio system. Due to the nature of human perception, many people consider this to be close enough to zero latency to be workable, with a delay of 1-3 milliseconds. By contrast, analog circuitry delays are typically in the order of one to ten thousand times shorter in time.
-*Even if one could argue that a delay in the range of 1-3 milliseconds is perceivable in the right circumstances, in human terms most analog audio circuitry has no latency.
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