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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  2. Anonymous
    2012-04-29T00:58:37+00:00

    This isn't a valid answer. Perhaps you're not understanding the problem. It's got nothing to do with exposing the hardware loopback - I've got it exposed. The problem is that the mic has a delay.

    So let's say that I've got a headset on and I've got an acoustic guitar and I wanna write a song in two parts. I wanna monitor the microphone so I can hear what I'm playing, but I also want to hear the previous track I recorded. When I strum a note on my guitar, there is a second of delay before I hear it through the headset. This makes it absolutely impossible to record. It seems to be an issue with USB speeds rather than audio drivers, as it apparently only happens with USB microphones.

    I've bumped into this problem a dozen times since installing windows 7. I'm inclined to revert back to XP again, though I'd like to not do that and just fix this issue instead.

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-04-18T12:11:59+00:00

    Hi

    I have tried this and it has not worked. Please advise?

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-04-01T15:43:50+00:00

    Hey Chris,

    Why can't Microsoft just make it work without all this aggro?

    Why do we have to jump through tedious hoop after tedious hoop just to make this thing behave the way it used to by default?

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