Problem with recording music on my laptop!? help needed

[kershaw90]

Hi,

Been having a few problems with recording on my laptop.

I want to connect my 2 numark CDJs to my laptop via a basic stanton mixer,

however when i have them all connected up correctly and start recording on Audacity, the sound which comes out my speakers is about second slower than the sound coming through my headphones, making it impossible to mix

I recently bought a KAM usb audio interface thinking it would solve this but was the same.

Has anyone had problems recording on a laptop before? the laptop which i'm using is COMPAQ Presaio V6000.

Don't know if its something to with the laptops soundcard (if it has one) or audacity recording software i'm using

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks , Andy

[brandondrury]

What soundcard is feeding your headphones?

Did you pull the latency down on your audio interface?

Brandon

[kershaw90]

the heaphones are connected to my mixer

and no i don't know how to change the latency, also tried using a 5.1 dolby usb port but had the same problem

something in the laptop is causing the latency just need to find out what it is so i can adjust it?!

[brandondrury]

the sound which comes out my speakers is about second slower than the sound coming through my headphones, making it impossible to mix

Oh, I forget we are DJing here. I'm not intimately familiar with that universe, but I see the problem.

The problem is your speakers are using the stock soundcard which has very high latency. Your mixer however, is real time.

The solution is to use your audio interface (with the latency turned down as low as you can go without clicks and pops....it should have a control panel) to send the audio where ever. If you are using the stock soundcard as the output, it will be behind for sure.

Brandon

[kershaw90]

I returned the audio interface i had, but it was just usb and didn't have a program with it to adjust the settings.

Also even trying to connect the mixer straight to the laptop via the microphone

and just using the laptop's built in speakers, there is still latency slowing the sound down.

do you know were to adjust the latency settings on laptops?

Andy

[brandondrury]

and just using the laptop's built in speakers, there is still latency slowing the sound down.

Yup. That's the stock soundcard. It wasn't designed for low latency operation.

do you know were to adjust the latency settings on laptops?

Stock soundcards seldom have a control for this.

Brandon

[Chinthaka]

check out what is ur sound card buffering size make it down and try out is that will help u this will give u a distrote noise if u r in live Dj i think it will not help u