Sending audio from the microphone immediately to the speakers

[Hungrytoheal]

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

Thanks,
Hungrytoheal

 

[ignatzatsonic]

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?

 

[fireberd]

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

 

[Hungrytoheal]

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

 

[Aphelion]

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

 

[Hungrytoheal]

I don't understand what you mean, mate.

 

[Jonathan_King]

Go to Control Panel>Sound>Recording, right-click on your mic, and select "Listen to this device".

Hopefully that will do the trick.

 

[Hungrytoheal]

Issue all sorted. Thanks a lot.

 

[Jonathan_King]

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

 

[Aphelion]

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

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Here is all I show in mine. I am currently using an external USB card and am not sure what that tab would have shown with onboard or other internal card.

 

[Hungrytoheal]

Johnathon your solution worked fine, thanks. Thanks to you also Aphelion, very helpful information.

+rep to both of you.

 

[Aphelion]

Johnathon your solution worked fine, thanks. Thanks to you also Aphelion, very helpful information.

+rep to both of you.

Thanks--

Jonathan +1

Now, I wonder why the "Listen" option sometimes causes a delay in the audio, it's usually about a 500ms delay.

Ahhh... maybe if the "enhancements" are enabled. The enhancements are basically DSP which takes time to calculate.

I'll have to experiment.

Ap