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After a thorough search i found no posts of use my only hope is to find a virtual mixing desk that i can use to turn down the echo (if such a thing would be possible)

Wow, that's much worse than I imagined. I can't think of anything that can cause that much echo other than an intentional echo effect. The echo is precisely 170 ms with approximately 6 dB drop in level on each repeat. I'm still concerned about the phrase in the microphone description "Built-in...

here you are one test just realised i didn't change anything there i had to redo it as a wav

steve wrote:Your "Headphones" is a "Headset"? (headphones and microphone combined?)

While we are testing this, do you have any "ordinary" headphones? (no microphone, with just a mini-jack plug connector)?

still echo no change

Close Audacity, then plug in your USB headphones, wait a few moments for Windows to recognise the headphones, then restart Audacity. What options do you now have? the same as before with the addition of the headphones for both playback and record (the mic is awful and broken) so i can choose betwee...

steve wrote:Are there any other options available?
What if you change the "Host" setting?

the only other option there is windows direct sound and that puts the two other options to default. still works and still echo but not as bad ???

You'll have to help me "see" what's happening.... Did we check your Audacity version? It should be 1.3.13 (unicode) - look in the "Help menu > About Audacity" to check. Any your version of Windows is Vista? With the microphone connected and your USB headphones disconnected , reb...

what does he want me to do? I'm not sure - he's not being very clear. Was there any software with the microphone? (I'm wondering what "Built-in Enhanced sound effects processor, with extraordinary expressiveness" means and if there's any way to control (switch off) the "Enhanced soun...

this was the reply from the seller of the mic

Hi,

Please kindly try to tune the microphone volume at volume manager of windows to solve it.

what does he want me to do?

steve wrote:Did it come with any instructions?

unfortunately no i have asked the seller for a solution just waiting on them.
Do you know if there is a virtual mixer desk i can use as a go between to cancel out the echo?