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I'm using the latest version and even on the previous version, I encountered this problem.

When I record my electric guitar through my audio interface (Behringer UCA202), I get a delay between playing a note and hearing it through my headphones. Sounds like a continuous echo or delay and is very off-putting. Of course the problem is compounded when I want to add a second overdub track whilst monitoring the first track.

Am I doing anything wrong? I have a trial version of Mixcraft 5 which works perfectly with the same audio interface.

Any help or comments welcome

At least on Windows, you can mess about in the Windows Control Panels and send "Line-In" directly out to the headphones. This means you only have the delay in the UCA-202 and computer processing to worry about which should be minimal. You can also plug your headphones into the UCA-202 directly and eliminate all the "live" delays completely. I think that's an actual analog connection.

If you have an audio program that directly supports ASIO software drivers, that usually goes a long way to managing echoes and delays. Audacity can't do that because of license restrictions. However, you can, if you want, compile Audacity fresh with ASIO support. It's just we can't do it.

http://wiki.audacityteam.org/index.php? ... _Interface

Koz

Turn off "Software Playthrough" (near bottom of the Transport menu).
Select the UCA 202 as the playback device and plug your headphones in there rather than into the computer sound card.

Thanks guys for your suggestions and help. Glad to say I got the problem sorted thanks to Steve's suggestion about turning the software play through off. Well done lads