Echo in voice while recording!

downhear wrote on 4/15/2005, 7:20 AM

Hello! I use Vegas 4.0 as a music digital recording studio. I have a problem, while recording vocals over the music I hear a split second delay or echo. That throw the vocal off sync with the music because I am record to an echo. I thought it was the soundcard, so I got another one. A guy at the local music store told me its in my Vegas program? Something about choosing a function in the program where it doesn't use as much ram from the computer. Can anyone help me with this? I am stuck!

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tazio wrote on 4/17/2005, 7:15 PM

How are you listening?

I had a similar problem but it was only in the booth - voice over hearing their own voice acoustically and a slight delay in their headphones.

I fixed this by reducing the latency buffer settings on my sound card. Watch out though, too low and you will start getting glitches.

Useful threads in this forum as well if you search for latency buffer

Regards

drbam wrote on 4/17/2005, 7:36 PM

Use a small external mixer for monitoring. You can pick up a cheap Behringer, Alesis, etc for about $50 and this will completely eliminate the latency issue (for overdubbing, etc). There are many other advantages to monitoring with an external mixer as well, but the latency issue alone certainly justifies it.

drbam