Audacity Forum

... on TRANSPORT and making sure Overdub and Software Playthrough had checkmarks beside them. My recording now ... great. Occasionally I will admittedly get a lot of echo on the program, but also learned to take care of that. ...

... Back in Audacity Preferences, Try Hardware Playthrough (restart Audacity) and when that doesn't work, Software Playthrough, Restart Audacity. You will find that ... is "late" compared to your own live voice with echo or slap. That's correct. Without an external sound ...

... full tilt boogie stereo. The production echo and flavor of the performance may go flat. ... it. Set Audacity Preferences for Hardware or Software Playthrough, whichever is supported. Click inside one of ...

can't find wa wa or echo button. The "wa wa button" does not exist - it ... bottom of the "Transport" menu and ensure that "Software Playthrough" is not selected.

... laptop mic is and tested it. It works fine, no echo. I think your note about recording more than ... am hearing. I enabled the Audacity preference Software Playthrough and listened to some other songs on my IPOD. ...

... I think related to the "VIA HD Audiodeck" software which came with my onboard sound card, ... channel. At first I was getting a weird echo effect in the recording - everything sounded ... though. It shouldn't be feedback, because the playthrough is coming through headphones so the ...

It does have a headphone jack in it. When I plug in my headphones I still have to have the software playthrough on. Though this takes care of the echo there is a significant amount of Lag. I've tried adjusting the buffer settings but that doesn't seem to solve that either.

Software Playthrough was selected... I have turned it off. Can that cause issues?

... The other thing to check is that in Audacity, "Software Playthrough" should be off (not selected). If you're using a recent beta version you will find ...

... to this on the forum and it is called software playthrough - the problem with software playthrough is that ... so you would hear it as a distant and very distracting echo. To overcome this second issue, you will need to use ...