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... software playthrough allows you to monitor through your headphones what is being recorded, there is, as you have discovered, an unavoidable delay (echo). If you keep the volume level in your headphones reasonably low you should have no difficulty hearing what you are recording acoustically ...

The delay is present when laying first track down and I assume all tracks haven't got that far yet.Very annoying. Have you already tried unmuting your input on the playback side of the Sound section in Windows Control Panel? ...

... is usually a symptom of having "Software Playthrough" enabled (near the bottom of the Transport menu). Software playthough causes a delay because it takes time for software to relay the input sound through to the output. Monitoring the input without a delay requires that the input ...

The delay is an inherent problem when using "Software Playthrough" due to the time that the software requires to relay the sound from the USB input to the internal sound card (there is no physical hardware connection ...

... tab then set the playback to the built-in sound device. Then record from the built-in sound device's "stereo mix" feature. It will have delay as it's software playthrough. It may still send your friend's voice to stereo mix or it may just send the mic input. Please state whether you ...

... can be used if your hardware does not support playthrough, but because it is done in software it is much slower and there will be a noticeable delay before the sound is heard through the headphones.

... mixer or fancy microphone both of which let you monitor the live performance (your voice) while it's still analog to get rid of the digital delays. That lets you hear yourself in real time or really, really, close to it. Any time the computer has to stop and think about a process, it gets ...

shawnn452 wrote:version 1.3

The version number needs to be 3 numbers, for example "1.3.10"
Look in "Help > About Audacity" for the full version number.

windows 7 and version 1.3

Not that I know of. What operating system and version of Audacity are you using?

-- Bill