Audacity Forum

... manufacturer's web site and obtain 64-bit audio drivers for Windows 7 that are intended for your motherboard or computer model. There is some help with this here: http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Updating_Sound_Device_Drivers . In the Audacity toolbar audio host is set to MME , input is Line ...

I concur with Steve's and Koz's observations. There may be variations in recording latency from recording to recording. The more tasks you have running (or are permitted to run when they want to), the more variability you will have. See http://wiki.audacityteam.org/wiki/Managing_Computer_Resources_a...

... in Audacity corresponding to the sound that you want to record? There's a series of "getting started" tutorials in the manual that may help: http://manual.audacityteam.org/o/man/tutorial_your_first_recording.html

... at the highest quality level possible, so I’ll just save everything in WAV – Storage space on this machine is not a problem. Thanks again for the help.

Hi Koz! To be clear, I *do* listen to my own voice when overdubbing vocal tracks: Because my mic is going through the mixer, as well as the computer (what I am recording on to), I am not only able to hear myself sing with the music, but I can adjust the mix of the two, and---of course---adjust the o...

... and I need to get this going. Can anyone tell me if I have something set incorrectly or if I need to do something special? Thanks for the help.

OK, we're clear on the error. Thank you for the detail. Many people, me included, find it helpful to listen to our own voice in real time during the overdubbing performance. You don't work that way, so that problem just never comes up for you. That still leaves an apparent wandering Record Latency. ...

... pull a conversation out of other conversations or traffic noise. We can't do forensics like the CSI TV show. What's the conversation? Maybe we can help there. Koz

Hm, I think the placement of the band is varying for me with the zoom level. In a bad, misleading way, actually, sometimes with 173 not even inside the band! But it seems to prefer to put 173 at the bottom of the band if I zoom the scale to put 1722 at the top.

You should try Zero padding as well, not only changing the window type.
You'll get all the formulas you Need in the Wikipedia article about windowing.
For speech, 20 MS time segments are fairly common. Use a hamming window with 50 % overlap.