Microphone delay when recording in Windows 7

Anonymous

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

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments

Answer accepted by question author

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

0 comments

323 additional answers

Anonymous

2009-11-22T03:21:37+00:00

nice to know im not the only one with the problem. not my favorite to know there is no known solution. i hope people are scrambling to fix this right now

http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/13032-audio-lag-linein-mic.html

more ppl with this problem

we neeeed your help

http://scodal.com
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments
Anonymous

2009-12-03T01:12:03+00:00

I found a hotfix for this problem. It's called Windows XP. I reinstalled XP last night and I'm happy as can be recording again!
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments
Anonymous

2009-12-05T04:22:15+00:00

Cakewalk Guitar Tracks Pro and Sonar responding the same way with various audio devices both PCI and USB. This is not a driver. This is an OS issue.
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments
Anonymous

2009-12-09T18:54:39+00:00

I've been having the same issues with recording too, but I would like to add, for you Microsoft troubleshooting guys, that it isn't just the recording. The problem also shows itself in the live signal to the speakers. When I tap the mic I can very noticeable here the time delay before the sound comes out of the speakers. Very frustrating for all of us in the music world.
Was this answer helpful?

0 comments No comments