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
    2012-05-15T16:15:13+00:00

    stop posting this it doesnt help.  70% of the users have this problem

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  2. Anonymous
    2012-05-15T16:16:24+00:00

    it hapens with analog microphones also

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  3. Anonymous
    2012-05-23T09:36:10+00:00

    There seems to be no solution to this problem. My brother is a microsoft engineer and he can't fix it. I've seen this problem over and over on the net. Microsoft don't seem to know how to fix it. Most users end up reverting to XP. That's what I'm going to do also. Get a cheap laptop with XP. It's a real pain in the **** though for those who can't do that. I'm luck, I have a few old laptops lying around and I have a genuine XP disc. Bloody nuisance though.

    Bad show, Microsoft!

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-05-28T01:37:01+00:00

    If you're using the actual microphone jack and not a USB device, this will work:

    http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/forum/topic/b019ee8?page=9b1c6#reply_b1acf2d7

    I was able to get sound with no delay, but I wan't able to test it well considering that all I had at the time was a really old barely functional microphone (not even a headset around).

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