Microphone delay when recording in Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-10-28T14:53:55+00:00

Since upgrading from Vista to Win7, my microphone input has a delay of 500ms to 1s when recording.  This is most notable in apps like Ventrilo.  Anyone else having this problem?

Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

HTOmega Claro+ sound card

E6600 Intel CPU

6 gigs of RAM

Nvidia GTX 280 video card

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2010-03-25T22:37:38+00:00

Hi Everyone,

Please see my earlier replies. No functionality has been removed in Windows 7. If you have an audio driver and codec that exposes the hardware loopback, it will still be present on the Levels tab of the Speakers device. However, not all drivers expose this. If you had this option on XP and load the same audio driver, it should be exposed on Windows 7. Same with the stereo mixer. If the audio driver exposes it, it will be available. It is hidden by default on Vista/Windows 7. But on the Recording tab if you right click in the open area and select show disabled devices, you can enable it. If a Stereo Mix device is not shown, then the audio driver is not exposing one. If you had this option on XP, then please try installing the same driver version that was previously installed.

Thanks,

Chris

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  1. Anonymous
    2009-12-30T17:25:22+00:00

    When I plug a microphone into my laptop then select to listen to the microphone as a monitor. I get ridiculous lag. I have read all over the internet that hundreds of AUDIO ENGINEERS are claiming Windows 7 useless because of this. AM i missing something. Can my 10 year old Dell laptop with XP handle LIVE RECORDING better than Windows 7? IS there a fix for this? I have tried three different computers using windows 7 and all the same issue. What am i missing?

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-12-29T01:49:35+00:00

    i also tried ASIO4ALL with no success...i am very disappointed that microsoft does not seem to be addressing or even acknowledging this problem!  Music recording was the sole reason I bought this particular Windows 7 equipped laptop which is practically useless to me now until there is a solution!  I ended up borrowing an older MacBook from a generous friend to get me by for now, but all of the PC programs I am accustomed to and many projects I was working on are on hold until this gets fixed...The 'driver' issue mentioned above was not helpful as this is clearly an OS issue.  Never mind the commercials, this was NOT my idea for Windows 7!!  And where is the Microsoft tech support staff on this thread?

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-12-28T15:38:51+00:00

    I just tried ASIO4ALL and it made no difference whatever.

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-12-28T15:37:31+00:00

    Hi all.

    I'm experiencing the same problems. I tried two different soundcards; Rrealtek and Creative XFi. No use. Windows "support"- don't make me laugh- has nothing on this problem. It was running OK for while then the delay kicked in and I can't find a solution. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. Like everyone else here I can't get any audio/vst work of any kind done until this can be fixed. I've even placed an order for more RAM thinking that may have been the problem. Oh well I needed to up-grade that anyway so no bug loss there. But Microsoft really need to get a grip here, or we'll all be saviong our pennies and buyinng Macs.

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