VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

[Edwino]

I have what seems to be a problem on Sound Booth in that when I listen on headphones there is a slight delay which is very annoying especially when being directed. It also comes through the monitors in this delayed way., Anyone had this experience or know how to solve it. I just checked with Audacity and it is fine. Would rather use SB since I am use it.

Thanks,
Edwin

[Jason Huggins]

What audio interface are you using? Does it have the ability to do direct monitoring (listening to the audio before it goes through the software)?

[vkuehn]

Does Sound Booth offer you a control somewhere in a menu for LATENCY? If so, play with that and see what changes. Be careful. Latency can be tied to audio quality. If you can minimize the latency setting and change the audio to your headset, do some testing to make sure audio quality is not degraded when you use that setting.

[cyclometh]

Here's latency in a nutshell:

If you're monitoring your microphone's signal by plugging it into the interface directly, that's direct monitoring. You're not going to hear any delay there because you're hearing it from the hardware.

When you're monitoring via software, you can run into latency issues because the interface you're using has to convert the audio into digital information, send it to your computer, which then has to construct the right signal information from the digital data, etc.

Much depends on your interface drivers. If you're using "generic" drivers in SoundBooth, then you may be experiencing more latency. For example, in Cubase I can select the driver specific to my interface, which has very low latency (on the order of 15 milliseconds) but only works with that interface, or a generic one that works with lots of interfaces, but has high latency (as much as a half second!).

In the end hardware monitoring is best, but you can adjust some things to reduce or eliminate perceived latency when using other means.
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[georgethetech]

Turn off Software monitoring in Soundbooth, problem solved.
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[Edwino]

Thank you George, I must have tried every button at some time. But that worked just fine. What an aggravating problem, Wonderful phewwwwwww.

Sorry not to get back sooner, had a problem logging in.

[Edwino]

Thank you for all the other posts. I was pretty sure it was an SB problem because it worked fine in audacity