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Re: Latency help!

Post by steve » Thu Jan 27, 2011 12:03 am

mrfloyd wrote:I need to hear both the backing track and the new one throught the headphones. Is this normal that it does not?
Floyd
It's normal not to work with USB microphones. It's quite common not to work on Vista, It's very common not to work on Windows 7, but with a conventional (non-USB) microphone on Windows XP it usually does work and I'm a bit surprised that it isn't.

Here's the mixer settings on my Windows XP machine. Is yours like this?

First the playback screen - note that the microphone playback is enabled and the volume turned up:
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Playback mixer
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And here's the recording mixer - note that the microphone is selected as the recording source and the recording level is up:
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Recording Mixer
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Re: Latency help!

Post by mrfloyd » Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:11 am

Steve,

This is exactly what it looks like and I do have the microphone checked in the box. I'm using a cheap mic that is plugged into the back not a USB mic. I went under options> advanced controls, there was an advanced button and enabled 1 mic boost. I do have audio now.

We'll see how this works
Thanks Steve
Best,
Floyd

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