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How are you connecting the devices to the computer?
Ensure that Software Playthrough is off (Transport menu).

... line-in > Properties, click "Listen", check "Listen to this device" then set the playback device to your speakers. It sounds delayed, just like Audacity's software playthrough, but it's a feature that Windows XP and before don't have. Hmmm... That's exactly what I do with ...

Yeah. software playthrough (I´ve got a Swedish interface). I think I understand the thing now. It was the realtime delay and high mic.vol. that caused the eco. Sorry to bather you.

... whilst i record a new piece What happens when you put a check in Transport > Overdub (on/off)? Problem 2 When i did this in windows there was some delay, but it played and recorded ie. i could hear the recorded track and record new and just align afterwards as i can recall. If i can get problem ...

Check that "Software Playthrough" is off (Transport Menu).

... on your mixer. And the only way to monitor the show in real time is at the mixer. Software Playthrough is late. There's almost always an echo or delay between singing a note and hearing it at the computer. Koz

... I will be able to hear my voice as it records "close enough" to real-time so that it won't distract me. No, this is "playthrough delay" that can only be completely solved by using hardware playthrough (using the USB devices Koz illustrated). As you have a USB mic, there will ...

The delay, if I understand correctly, will probably cause trouble in trying to sync up the recorded piano with live voice. It sounds like a showstopper. If the recorded piano will be ahead of or behind the vocals I hear as ...

... You can listen to your voice while recording it by enabling software playthrough in Audacity, but it has delay. If you are on Windows XP or earlier, try unmuting the mic in the playback side of your sound device (in the Windows Control Panel). If you are ...

... of) playthrough and you can record from the microphone input source. The expected way to enable hardware playthrough (which means you have less delay hearing the input and less processing load) is to go to the Playback section and unmute the input you want to record. This rarely works on Windows ...