dumbest question ever? (electric guitar + mbox)

i'm a novice, a newbie, and an idiot. there...I said it. now, can anyone tell me why I notice a very slight delay on playback on tracks where I've recorded elec guitar? I know about the normal latency issues, muting when recording, etc. and this doesn't happen with acoustic guitar, keyboard, or bass. but when I play back elect guitar that I've recorded (plugin free, straight conx guitar to mbox), it's the tiniest step behind the beat. it's almost as if there's a tiny delay from the time I strum to the time it reaches the mbox. is this just how elec guitars behave? is there a way to correct it? (I don't know exactly how long the delay is in terms of samples, etc...it's small but noticeable). thank you!

I had a similar experience recently, though I was miking an acoustic, not going direct. It only lasted for about 3 or 4 passes, then it went away for the rest of the session. I ended up just shifting the tracks back about 3000 samples before I mixed. That was the only time that had ever happened to me and I thought it was kind of a fluke, but good to know (or not I guess) that I'm not the only one. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone know what to do if it happens again?

Re: dumbest question ever? (electric guitar + mbox 

All latency issues are 100% identical whether you're plugged into the 1/4" input or the mic input. Latency is absolutely unaffected by which analog input you use. When using a microphone, a TEENY bit of latency is added, based on distance from the source to the mic. A reasonable estimate is 1ms per foot.

uhh...okay. I guess what I was asking wasn't about monitoring-induced latency, which I take to be the quite noticeable lag you hear unless you mute the track as you're recording. my problem is coming on playback, even when I'm positive I've played perfectly on beat. so it sounds like the solution is to shift a certain # of samples back on mixdown for the problem tracks then? all agreed?

Re: dumbest question ever? (electric guitar + mbox 

If you're using 6.4 or 6.7, you should not have to shift anything around. There was a bug in earlier versions (on Mbox only) which required a 164 sample shift to line things up properly. Search this forum for '164 Mbox' and you will find plenty more on this, and a description of the simple test to measure/verify exactly what's going on.

Re: dumbest question ever? (electric guitar + mbox 

I'd like to clear up the problem here since I experienced the same thing. I am using PT LE 6.7 on OSX 10.3.7 with an MBox. I understand all about latency and the mix/playback knob on the MBox, that's not the issue and I'm not some newbie that has no clue. The audio is getting RECORDED about (at least for me) 3000 samples behind everything else. I shifted it back and everything was fine for mixing. It only happened once and it lasted for about 4 takes.

Re: dumbest question ever? (electric guitar + mbox