Echo

[jokieth]

Your "Headphones" is a "Headset"? (headphones and microphone combined?)

While we are testing this, do you have any "ordinary" headphones? (no microphone, with just a mini-jack plug connector)?

still echo no change

[steve]

OK. While testing this, stick with the "ordinary" headphones (this will avoid some possible complications and confusions).

I asked previously whether the echo was evident only while you are recording, or if it is also there when you play back the recording.
Looking back through this thread, I'm not clear about what the answer to that is. Probably the easiest thing would be if you could post a short example as a WAV (only needs to be a couple of seconds).

[jokieth]

here you are one test just realised i didn't change anything there i had to redo it as a wav

[steve]

Wow, that's much worse than I imagined.
I can't think of anything that can cause that much echo other than an intentional echo effect.

The echo is precisely 170 ms with approximately 6 dB drop in level on each repeat.
I'm still concerned about the phrase in the microphone description "Built-in Enhanced sound effects processor, with extraordinary expressiveness"
Is this microphone supposed to do this? Is it intended for karaoke?

Do you have, or can you get hold of an ordinary computer microphone? If you can do a straight swap of an "ordinary" microphone with the one that you are currently using, without making any other changes to your set-up, then it will prove one way or the other whether it is the microphone.

[jokieth]

Wow, that's much worse than I imagined.
I can't think of anything that can cause that much echo other than an intentional echo effect.

The echo is precisely 170 ms with approximately 6 dB drop in level on each repeat.
I'm still concerned about the phrase in the microphone description "Built-in Enhanced sound effects processor, with extraordinary expressiveness"
Is this microphone supposed to do this? Is it intended for karaoke?

Do you have, or can you get hold of an ordinary computer microphone? If you can do a straight swap of an "ordinary" microphone with the one that you are currently using, without making any other changes to your set-up, then it will prove one way or the other whether it is the microphone.

just did that test and you may be correct the normal comp mic does not echo but the normal comp mic hisses and that is not good enough for a podcast. i may have to buy a new mic this time i will go with the behringer c1u

[steve]

I found another reference to th Gtep SE3 microphone (via Google) and it sounds like a similar problem:
http://niketalk.yuku.com/topic/257406#.TnkAVB--D8g

I'm using a little gtep se-3. Sounds okay but the music overlays the sounds from the mic when i record...

[jokieth]

After a thorough search i found no posts of use my only hope is to find a virtual mixing desk that i can use to turn down the echo (if such a thing would be possible)