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Thanks guys for the imput,
been on the net all last night trying to find out the problem even downloaded a latency program which checks your software and hardware and according to this software its my drivers on my W-LAN that may be the problem.
so when i get home tonight i`ll be up dateing my drivers for that and see how i go.
Just to let you know thou my sound card is a Sound Blaster live 5.1 and again according to the net this should be fine for recording purposes.
worst come to the worst i can always go back to my 4 track tape recorder (lol)
That card ought to be up to the task (there are actually a number of different models of card which go under that name - all of them are supposed to be capable of doing what you need but some are better than others). I have heard of people having latency problems with these cards when using them for multi-track recording, but in general it sounds like the problems were fixed by updating the drivers for the card. The difficulty with this is that the Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 is now quite an old card and Creative aren't actively supporting it anymore so it might be difficult to get hold of new drivers.
Another potential problem to check is that you're recording with a sampling rate of 48kHz. This is significant because there's a limitation stemming from an internal design quirk of the card, which means it samples all incoming audio at 48kHz, even if the software is asking for something else. A lot of software will (at least if left at default settings) be asking for audio at different rates, typically 44.1kHz, which is the rate for CD sound. To accomodate this the card does some conversion calculations, but that can slow things down and compromise sound quality. To minimise the chance of trouble set Audacity (or whatever other package you're using) to use a sample rate of 48kHz.
The only thing that worries me about what you've said is the bit about updating drivers for your "W-LAN" because generally speaking that stands for Wireless LAN (aka. wi-fi) - which is something separate. Are you sure the "latency" program you downloaded wasn't bogus?
Soulcatcher & His DooFa Diddley said:Thanks guys for the imput,
been on the net all last night trying to find out the problem even downloaded a latency program which checks your software and hardware and according to this software its my drivers on my W-LAN that may be the problem.
so when i get home tonight i`ll be up dateing my drivers for that and see how i go.
Just to let you know thou my sound card is a Sound Blaster live 5.1 and again according to the net this should be fine for recording purposes.
worst come to the worst i can always go back to my 4 track tape recorder (lol)
Well after nearly pulling my hair out i finally found out what was up ...... it was Audacity 1.2.6
There was errors with the drivers so uninstalled and reinstalled.... so far so good.
so tomorrow i`ll start my xmas song...............all this effort and im not a good sing lol
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