Microphone delay when recording in Windows 7

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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

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Anonymous

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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Anonymous

2012-03-04T03:34:36+00:00

I think a lot of the problem with regard to this discussion has to do with the interfaces that we are attempting to use for recording with Windows 7. It appears as though the people at Microsoft are not familiar with what is actually involved with using external interfaces for recording since all of your answers seem to relate to recording within the computer or using conventional microphone sound card inputs. THIS IS NOT THE REAL SITUATION!!!

This said from what I have seen the interface people are not yet up to speed with Windows 64 bit for what ever reason. Even though most claim that they are. This is also the case for much of the DAW software out there that is being used for the purpose of CREATING music.

The microphone issues being discussed here are NOT related to the conventional microphone sound card plugs but relate to microphones plugged into USB INTERFACES. In this case conventional drivers are NOT RECOMMENDED. What is typically used are ASIO drivers which are designed to BYPASS all of the BS in the convention Microsoft OS that relates to managing music files.

The main issue here is whether or not a 64bit processor combined with a supposed 64bit OS and a sound card (which I have not found yet) is actually capable of recording at sample rates of 64bit. Once again however this may not be a Windows issue since most of the interfaces I have seen (unless you spend the big bucks) are not yet capable of going beyond 24 bit 44.1 or 48khz.
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Anonymous

2012-02-03T03:40:30+00:00

Genius.
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Anonymous

2012-01-21T20:01:35+00:00

I had the same problem until i do this (by Satish S V)

"...

Follow the steps mentioned below.

a.      Go into control panel and select sound

b.      Click on speakers and select properties

c.       Go to levels and scroll down to line in. Make sure that it is un muted and has the volume turned up.

d.      Now click okay, go to the recording tab, and select line in properties.

e.      Go to the listen tab, and uncheck "listen to this device".

...."

I hope this is useful your you.
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Anonymous

2012-01-19T02:59:24+00:00

I found this video on Youtube and it worked for me.

Youtube search: How to Fix the Audio Pass Through Delay/Latency in Windws 7

or click the link below.

http://youtu.be/cY0zoNP1H3o
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