Audacity Forum

... playback devices that worked were: sysdefault and dmix. I am running Ubuntu Mate 17. The downside to using Software Playthrough is that there is a delay between the sound going into the microphone and coming out of the headphones, because the data has to be moved through buffers by the software. ...

... selected the TASCAM USB device as your Recording Device . (Do NOT choose "stereo mix" or "loopback" etc.) There is always a delay (latency) through the computer (because of the mult-tasking operating system). There are ways of minimizing latency to the point where it's sometimes ...

... "Software Playthrough" (in the "Transport" menu) to monitor through your computer sound system. Note that there is a slight delay when using Software Playthrough.

... I simply plug in a basic microphone,and it sounds like Karaoke...Ugh... "sounds like Karaoke" could be a feedback -loop created by recording the output of the computer as well as the microphone. Disable all the Windows recording-devices except the microphone, and disable Audacity's &q...

... a mic through it and hear (monitor) what I'm recording other than by using Audacity's "Software Playthrough" (which has an unusably long delay for recording myself playing / singing). Am I missing something, or is that a known limitation?

... been having the same issues or if Audacity had ever addressed it in a FAQ, the closest thing I saw to what I was experiencing was posts about a delay in live playback. It was said that it was a latency issue that's common because sound takes time to get to the headphones, for which Audacity ...

... side. Turn on Software Playthrough . Since you're configured for mono, you should get sound out of both sides. But, you may experience latency (delay). If you re not using the other input for anything a Y-adapter to feed the guitar into both inputs would be an easy fix. Behringer support says ...

Hello, I have a problem with recording my voice in audacity (version 2.1.3). Whenever I try to record my voice I hear echo with slight delay making recoring way harder for me (trying to speak while hearing your echo from half a second ago is quite hard :cry: ). I tried to look into FAQ but ...

... is on, whether software playthrough is on or off. You should not be using software playthrough to listen to yourself recording because this adds delay. Direct monitor in the headphones output of your USB mic or interface. If you are trying to do this with a built-in soundcard, turn off Windows ...

... new track onto the current project. Oddly, the backing track sounds normal with no effects. It's just the new guitar track that has the weird echo/delay.