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Hi all.New to Audacity.When recording there is a delay that I can't seem to eliminate.I would really appreciate any help with it . Thanks in advance

jry49 wrote:Hi all.New to Audacity.When recording there is a delay that I can't seem to eliminate.I would really appreciate any help with it . Thanks in advance

Assuming the delay is when recording second or subsequent tracks, please read this Frequently Asked Question:
http://manual.audacityteam.org/man/FAQ:Recording#sync


Gale

Hi Gale.Thank you for the response.The delay is present when laying first track down and I assume all tracks haven't got that far yet.Very annoying.

You're talking about the live delay between your lips and your voice coming back from the computer to your headphones. If it's objectionable I believe about the only thing you can do is start thinking about doing the work in an external mixer. Once you monitor the work from the mixer (instead of the computer) the only other delay you need to worry about is the latency delay and you can tune that out in Audacity 1.3.

I believe the advice used to be was switch the Windows Control Panel > Sound > Output to "Line-In" (or wherever your microphone is coming from), but newer machines won't let you mix that way.

Right this second I can't find a thing I wrote about External USB Mixers.

Koz

jry49 wrote:The delay is present when laying first track down and I assume all tracks haven't got that far yet.Very annoying.

Have you already tried unmuting your input on the playback side of the Sound section in Windows Control Panel? If so, and that does play through to the speakers, then (to state the obvious) you still need to ensure Transport > Software Playthrough in Audacity is off.

Some of the more expensive USB microphones have a headphones jack for hardware monitoring, which is another alternative to a mixer, but a mixer gives you a lot of flexibility.


Gale