Voice is echoing all the time
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This forum is for Audacity on Windows.Please state which version of Windows you are using,
and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Help menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
The old forums for those versions are now closed, but you can still read the archives of the 1.2.x and 1.3.x forums.
Voice is echoing all the time
I have just loaded Audacity 2.0 as 1.2.6 wouldn't let me select anything. I keep getting this one second echo delay although I have removed the effect. I am also getting a load of background hiss. How do I remove this echo. The webcam mic is also on but it is only 30 cm away from my headset plugged into the mic input. (windows 7, notebook [only one input]) It is definitely an effect causing this as the two mics would need to be separated by 300 metres to get this.
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Re: Voice is echoing all the time
You need to simplify your sound pathways. You're probably listening to "one computer" worth of delay -- the delay of one pass through the computer. It's worse if you like to record internet audio and leave Stereo-Mix or WAV-Out selected instead of a real device like one of the USB adapters.
You can't as a rule, perform into the computer and listen to the computer to judge your work in real time. That monitoring will always be late, sometimes very late if you have a slower computer or with an electrically "long" processing pathway.
This is the tutorial on overdubbing and multi-track, but they have exactly the same problem you have.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... rdubs.html
Audacity will not apply filters and effects in real time. It's real-time tools are record, play and timer.
Koz
You can't as a rule, perform into the computer and listen to the computer to judge your work in real time. That monitoring will always be late, sometimes very late if you have a slower computer or with an electrically "long" processing pathway.
This is the tutorial on overdubbing and multi-track, but they have exactly the same problem you have.
http://manual.audacityteam.org/help/man ... rdubs.html
Audacity will not apply filters and effects in real time. It's real-time tools are record, play and timer.
Koz