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Check near the bottom of the Transport menu. "Software Playthrough" should be off (not selected).

cary81 wrote:Thanks for your reply. In fact, I was able to record music before making the changes which you suggest. However, when speech is recorded, there is an echo....suggestions?

Make sure software playthrough is off (Transport menu).

Turn off Software Playthrough. Although software playthrough allows you to monitor ... there is, as you have discovered, an unavoidable delay (echo). If you keep the volume level in your headphones reasonably ...

The delay is an inherent problem when using "Software Playthrough" due to the time that the software requires ... of the headphones and you will eliminate the annoying echo. The setting is near the bottom of the Transport menu. ...

... the disk and third party The reverberating echo and whistley compression artifacts could have ... recording the disk ... Note: Do not enable "software playthrough" when recording computer playback, because this ...

turn off the "Software Playthrough" either in Preferences or from the Tracks drop-down menu. If you have this selected while trying to record what is playing on the computer ("what you here", "stereo mix" etc.) you will create a feedback loop (the symptoms you describe).

WC

If it's enabled, turn off "Software Playthrough". If you're using Audacity 1.2.x it's somewhere in "Edit menu > Preferemces", but I would recommend that you upgrade to Audacity 1.3.13 and then you'll find it near the bottom of the Transport menu.

Turn off "Software Playthrough" (near the bottom of the "Transport" menu).

... you have just said through the headphones (an echo of what you are recording)? Are you using a ... near the bottom of the "Transport" menu. If "Software Playthrough" is enabled, deselect it (turn it off). Does ...

... recording computer playback. If you also have software playthrough enabled in the Audacity Recording Preferences, then recording computer playback will cause an echo. Gale