Microphone delay when recording in Windows 7

Don't ask me why.. but I had the same problem with my Creative Soundblaster X-Fi...

I just solved ina  very simple way, even if I don't yet understand what causes this:

SOLUTION:

Right click the volume icon in the tray.

Select RECORDIN DEVICES.

Select MICROPHONE.

Click PROPERTIES.

Go to LISTEN TAB.

Uncheck the "Listen to this device".

DONE. No delay (<10ms)

Zibri

http://www.zibri.org

MHi,I think found of a solution to our problem. (Maybe it is a workaround but it works)I wanted to use my USB wireless microphone just to sing and to hear my own voice so  I searched without luck for days for some sort of a program or driver.I understand that if microphone is connected through USB to my PCAnd My PC is connected through HDMI to receiver which has all the speakers attached,so no way the analog signal from microphone can go all the way to speakers without being converted to digital and than back to analogue.So the only way is to minimize signal conversion delay as much as it is possible.Luckily one guy wrote audio repeater program.http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htmlHere is direct link:http://software.muzychenko.net/vac410.zipSimply unzip file, DO NOT INSTALL the application. You are only interested in 1 file. There are 2 folders x64 and x86.They have identical content (audiorepeater.exe and audiorepeater_ks.exe)I have Windows 7 64 bit, so I selected x64 of audiorepeater.exe.There select:input device - (USB Microphone)output device - (ATI HDMI output)local buffer - (50 ms)priority (realtime)These settings might differ (depending on how fast is your hardware)Press start. And ... voilà, you can hear yourself almost without any delay. In my case this works fine with karaoke software.I tried audiorepeater_ks.exe and set all the settings as with audiorepeater.exe but when I start karaoke software I don't hear music. Only my voice.If somebody could get this working let me know how. Apparently audiorepeater_ks.exe is a bit faster as it uses some kernel options (Need to be verified)Sergey

Shocked, but this actually works.  Thanks for this tip!  Doesn't make up for the fact that I have to use a piece of freeware to fix something Microsoft has broken, but it'll allow me to limp along for a while.

Just wanted to weigh in here that along with all you musicians, we court reporters are the other group that seems most affected by this debacle.  I'm running a Sony Vaio Z series, W7 64-bit, and the latency is a good 500ms, completely unbearable when listening to others in the room in real time.  I've tried the driver rollback, but Sony doesn't trust users to do that, won't allow anything to install than the newest Realtek code.  I have an identical issue with either the on-board sound or a USB sound device (which works impeccably on my XP machine, I might add), so the only non-variable in the situation is Windows 7.

Actually considered the XP downgrade, but I've heard too many others mention that's not a 100% fix either, so hate to go to all that trouble for nothing.

Please, please, please send this up the chain and let's get this licked in SP1!!!  This may be a small issue on the whole, but it's a huge issue for those of us that need it to work like it's always worked before.

Mike "Depoman" Miller

Yes unfortunately i do still have this annoying issue! The only equipment i am using is a usb microphone; The audio program i am using is Cubase 5.0 I highly dought this delay has anything to do with my microphone or my audio program seeing as i used similar devices and  audio programs 10 years ago and it worked fine (but on a older computer and OS~Millennium Edition). I think it might have to do with the new way they have made computers in the last decade. Is it possible that they have made these computers with Latency built in? PLease can anyone tell me what to do!?

Hmmm... After downgrading you still have the problem... That's interesting. I know on my old desktop (which was xp) I had absolutely no problems whatsoever with my recording capabilities. I have yet to try out this new fix as I went away to college and only brought my acoustic (that was a tactical error) but I know I never had any problems. It could be the equipment you are using or the settings for your audio program(s). I know XP never had that bullshit conversion process which completely screwed everyone over for live recording.  I'm sure someone has an easy fix. Since they've gotten one for this problem XP should be a piece of cake :P