Sending audio from the microphone immediately to the speakers

Does anybody know how to do this to achieve a sort of "karaoke" effect?

Thanks,
Hungrytoheal

I connect my sound cards outputs to the inputs with a standard RCA cable, but I don't have any idea what you mean by "karaoke effect".

What else could you use, other than a cable?

Are you talking about singing along with the music that is playing on the PC?

What I meant by karaoke effect is having the sound go straight from the mic to the speakers like it does in karaoke.

Like direct monitoring of the input ?

You should have input level controls (these differ from record level control).
This should allow you to hear (monitor) the microphone.

Ap

I don't understand what you mean, mate.

Issue all sorted. Thanks a lot.

Jonathan_King said:

Thanks for the report. Was it the "listen to this device" that did the trick, or something else?

Hi Jonathan,

I was thinking of this solution....

If you go to Control Panel>Sound>Playback... then select Speakers and then the properties button. Select the tab that says "Levels" and you should see something like this:



On my system these are dual function levels that "monitor inputs" and also adjust the "playback level" of outputs. You can see I have Line-In monitoring at 33%. That means I can hear any device, (mp3 player, guitar...etc) plugged into the line input.

Do you have these functions?

Edit note, if I could've sized the window above there are several more device levels available. (subwoofer, center, rear, front...etc)

Ap