Audacity 1.3 Beta Delay when recording "God Please Help"

[Mickeys500]

All I want to do is play music and sing along to it while recording and hearing my voice in my headphones. That's IT nothing special......or is it? I have searched all of the topics and have probably downloaded 5 to 10 programs in order to make it work. I have went to REGEDIT but couldnt find the specific file that the post told me. I am a vocalist from way back in the day of say 1987 to 1995 from way up Colorado Denver way. I'm a good guy.....why can't things be easy.......really?

I'm trying to get back into a band and I need to cover some songs on my computer to burn to disc, to give to my potential bandmates. I downloaded Audacity 1.3 Beta in hopes of getting something done...nope. I've already went through all the left clicking and right clicking and what not on my speaker icon and even in control panel.

So I've Got Audacity 1.3 Beta and when I record there is a delay when I listen and record. I've tried the "LATENCY" deal and that doesnt work either, maybe I'm doing it wrong but this is just rediculous! I have a RealTek HD Audio R150 or so Emachines says, I've downloaded their driver..nothing has changed. I've got a 1/8 jack into the front of the computer for headphones and a 1/8 jack into the rear of the computer for the mic, if it makes any difference it's an OPTIMUS 30-3030.

Let's see I have Vista with svc pack 1. Sony Headphones. My computer is a Emachines T5082.

My Problem is that when I hear my voice it is delayed.......come on some one out there has to have a solution to this!

I WANT to open up AUDACITY and record with mp3's AND HEAR MY VOICE WHILE RECORDING WITHOUT THE DELAY IN MY VOICE WHILE i AM RECORDING.

[kozikowski]

Listening to your own voice while recording is handled not by Latency (that deals with the match between the old and new recorded track) but "playthrough."

In Audacity Preferences, you can select hardware or software playthrough. Hardware playthrough typically has little or no delay but not everybody supports it. Most systems support software playthrough, but that has the delay and it's worse depending on your computer. Your voice comes back out 'one computer late.' It's the time your computer needs to think about the music or voice.

If you have the ability to monitor your voice through a mixer or other sound device, that's the way to do it. Pipe the music playback into your headphones or one headphone and use the latency adjustment to match things up. Many people need to slide the tracks around in post production anyway because it never matches up perfectly the first time.

Your next post will be how to eliminate the problem of two three minute pieces that aren't the same length.

Bet.

Koz

[kozikowski]

One more. As you start making system level Audacity changes, restart Audacity each time to make the new settings stick.

Koz

[Mickeys500]

Good man, Thank you for the reply. I went into preferences and under RECORDING I unchecked Software playthrough , tried recording and no voice through my headphones. I restarted audacity and still the same results. With software playthrough enabled I am hearing my voice but with that god forsaken delay lol!

There's got to be something im doing wrong don't you think?

Mickeys500

[billw58]

There's got to be something im doing wrong don't you think?

Nope. That's the software playthrough delay and there's nothing you can do about it. It's not really meant for singing or playing, more for folks who want to hear their LP while they are copying it.

Get yourself an inexpensive mixer and plug you mic and headphones into that.

-- Bill

[kozikowski]

http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5088

Koz