Audacity Forum

HI,
I was wondering if anyone could help me with my small problem. Basically I use to record in a studio and usually I would hear myself in the headphones when I spoke into the mic and I'm trying to set up the same format at home now, and it's going well but my voice appears after I actually speak like an "echo" with audacity 1.2.6 and I'm just curious to know why it won't playback at the same time cuz its quite annoying hearing myself like 2 secs after?

Help appreciated!!

It's the nature of the beast.

It's called latency, and all digital recording systems have it to some degree. If you want to hear what you actually recorded... there's no way around it.

What you need, is a realtime mix to listen too... not the digitized recording.

My Delta LT1010 card has a mixer built into it, so that I can mix down any of the 8 inputs real time and patch thru to whatever outputs I want.

So... in your case you would hear it in your headphones, as you speak without the delay.

So are you saying that there is no way to prevent the latency or echo playback. If thats the case, why doesnt everyone experience this issue?