Audacity Forum

i am using stero headphones with mic attached with it Is that USB? Edit menu > Preferences > Audio I/O "Play other tracks while recording new one" = ON "Software Playthrough" = OFF - If this is on it could be the cause of the problem. You may be able to configure your microphone...

Sure. As long as you don't want to record the resulting composite. Windows machines don't make very good Digital Audio Workstations because of the delays. You don't notice them until you try to capture a multi-track performance and keep layering it. You can tune out "latency" in Audacity ...

Thanks for the feedback Ito. there is the delay - software playthrough - however... I dont know if that can be helped No it can't be helped. Playback it through a different device (your sound card) from recording (the cable) so there is no direct ...

Hey,

I did get the Hosa cable.

It is good.

there is the delay - software playthrough - however...

I dont know if that can be helped. supposedly there is a hardware playthrough on the Mac,
and on the PC as well if you set the correct volume controls.

anyone?

take care

... Then you route your new performance to the headphones and the computer (via the main out of the mixer). You can hear both, in sync, with no delay. In Audacity both hardware playthrough and software playthrough are off. My idea is to get a little devious. You connect the Effects Send to the ...

Same problem here, although there is a variable delay (sometimes quite long, 30 seconds perhaps) before the recording locks up. It also occurs when I simply enable monitoring, with software playthrough enabled. My details: Audacity 1.3.8 (Gentoo ...

... are the two settings that affect your problem. Software Playthrough almost always works on most computers, but that's the one with the most delay. Hardware Playthrough is usually the most successful, but not all computers support it Anyone doing studio level recording is pointed to one of ...

... in my headphones when recording, and I can't. How can I fix that? With your current equipment - you can't. The best you can do is to listen to a delayed signal that has passed through your computer. You will see references to this on the forum and it is called software playthrough - the problem ...

Audacity Preferences > Hardware Playthrough. Restart Audacity.

If that fails, try software playthrough. That's more likely to work, but that's the one with the sound delay.

Koz

Your next question is how do you hear yourself playing with the already recorded track. You don't without external hardware. Macs do not support Hardware Playthrough and Software Playthrough has a serious delay in it.

Koz