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Acoustical consultants and sound system engineers in the New England area are invited to listen to and critique the new NEXO GEO S 1210/1230 Series compact loudspeaker array on Thursday, March 6 (from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.) and Friday, March 7 (10 a.m. to 1 p.m.). The event will be hosted by New England Audio Tech and Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems Inc. on behalf of NEXO, and will take place at 11 Industrial Way in Atkinson, N.H. For more information and to register, contact Yamaha district manager Martin Dombey at mdombey@yamaha.com or 800/322-4322 x9718.

Two easy solutions are available; the third solution is more expensive. First, many audio interfaces are equipped with zero latency through monitoring. This is an analog bus that loops directly from the interface's input to its output without being digitized or passed through the computer. Once you've set up this routing in your interface's control panel applet, the musician will be able to monitor the backing tracks and get his or her performance in sync.

If your interface doesn't have zero latency through monitoring, you can accomplish the same thing through your hardware console; a bit of repatching may be required. For instance, you may need to connect the interface to an aux or bus output on the mixer to avoid recording the entire temp mix into the new track. This solution should also work with a digital console: While there is inevitably some latency in digital mixers, it's kept very low thanks to an OS that's optimized for the job. Yamaha reports, for example, an in-to-out latency of less than 2 ms for the 02R96 Version 2.

Most computer audio interfaces allow you to set the size of the input buffer. You may be wondering, "Why can't I just reduce the buffer size to its minimum to squash the in-to-out latency?" Feel free to try it, but the smaller the buffer, the harder the CPU has to work. At a certain point (which you'll find by experimenting with your system), reducing the buffer size further introduces crackling noises. These noises crop up when the CPU literally has to drop audio bytes here and there because it can't keep up.

In that situation, the solution is to buy a faster computer.

Higher-quality digital gear at lower prices: It's what club engineers have been waiting for. Steve LaCerra breaks down next-gen club systems.

Cave is one of many strong musicians Launay has produced, recorded and/or mixed during 25-plus years behind the board. And one thing you can say about all of his productions is they deliver. Midnight Oil, P.i.L., Silverchair, Gang of Four, Killing Joke and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have all made seminal recordings with Launay, and he always manages to convince his artists to give everything they've got.

Over the years, Mix has picked Launay's brain about topics ranging from his early days as an assistant at The Townhouse to mixing in Pro Tools. Click the links below to learn about his techniques and projects.