I hope someone can help me
i am a newbie with audacity and I had everything all set up perfectly, Then one day something went wrong. I could no longer hear myself while recording voice overs. I obviously googled it and followed the instructions to enable audible input monitoring but now I get an echo and can hear myself back when talking. I cannot seem to get a happy medium of being able to hear myself in real time and avoid this echo which is very distracting, The alternative is not to hear myself at all which is no use- like not even having head phones on
Firstly has anyone got a fix ?
Secondly why did my settings mysteriously change all of a sudden and how do I get them back ?
I have tried installing updates and restarting the computer, Have also deleted and re installed audacity
Have literally spen the last 3 hours trying various things and going deeper and deeper down various rabbit holes. Im using windows 11
Hopefully someone can help
To listen without delay, see …
https://www.thewindowsclub.com/listen-to-microphone-through-a-playback-device
Windows update can do that.
Thanks for your help but it did not resolve my problem
I do voice over work and my microphone is recording fine- I just cannot hear myself when recording using my headphones. Its like I am not wearing headphones. When I enable audible input monitoring I get echo feedback
There is always SOME latency (delay) through the computer. Sometimes you can get it down to where it’s not noticeable, and sometimes not…
If you got to Edit → Preferences → Audio Settings there is a setting for Latency/Buffer length, but I’m pretty sure there are additional Windows buffers. A smaller buffer means less latency.
A buffer is also a delay. Record and playback/monitoring buffers are REQUIRED because the operating system is ALWAYS multitasking and interrupting, even if you are only running one application. If the buffer is too small you can get recording buffer overflow when the operating system is doing something else and the buffer is not read in time. You get a glitch/dropout in your recording. Or the playback buffer will underflow if it’s not re-filled in time.
What hardware do you have? IMO, the BEST solution is not to monitor through the computer…
There are some “podcast mics” that have a headphone jack for direct-hardware monitoring and some audio interfaces also have direct hardware monitoring.
Or of course, a USB mixer can be monitored without going through the computer.
Or, full DAW applications and higher-end audio interfaces are designed to work with ASIO drivers and ASIO is designed for low latency. But Audacity doesn’t support ASIO.