Audacity Forum

Hey there Guys,

I have a karaoke track.. I play it in and then tried recording n singing. Once done and when I play it, the place is where I started to sing is actually 4-5 secs ahead. Apprarently tht doesnt merge with the song. Any ideas?

Acer latop
A normal headphone and mic.

Thanks,
J.

You can fix what you have with the Time Shift Tool (two black sideways arrows). Select of of the tracks and push it later or sooner until they match.

You should probably be using Audacity 1.3 which has controls for live recording and overdubbing delays.

Edit > Preferences > Recording > Latency.

You need to know that most of the time you can't actually do what you're doing because of computer delays that can't be adjusted. The errors are burned into the hardware. There are multiple errors and only one of them can be cured. Every time the computer has to stop and think about the sound, it comes out late.


Audacity 1.2 is very old and no longer supported,
patched, corrected, or updated. Audacity 1.2 can
be unstable on newer computers.

Download and install the latest Audacity 1.3 from here...

http://audacityteam.org/download/

You can install both audacity 1.2 and Audacity 1.3 on
the same computer, but only use one at a time.

Audacity 1.2 will not open projects made on Audacity 1.3.

If you use MP3 or some of the more modern audio
compression formats, get Lame and FFMpeg software
from the same web site. Do not use older software
or software from other web sites, even though they
may have the same names.