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GarageBand: Latency voice recording with integrated mic

Hi. I'm new in Yosemite 10.10.2, I come from Mountain Lion and never see this problem before in my old macbook pro, I have to buy another one because the hard drive suddendly droped dead!! Now I have my yosemite but I can't record my voice without latency. Even using another programs like Adobe Audition CS6, it's the same problem. What can I do? Thanx


PD: When I say latency I mean that I have monitoring button "on" and I hear myself with delay!!

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 23, 2015 2:11 PM

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Feb 23, 2015 4:27 PM in response to JD321

I did what you said but is still the same. I tried to use another program to record my voice over a song track, it's the same with adobe auditon, it's a sound card issue I guess... but I don't get it 😟. In garageband I created just a track, without effects, still nothing, I hear my voice with delay through the headphones......Thank you!

Feb 23, 2015 11:05 PM in response to Emigollita

"First try removing all effects (like, duh, echo) to the vocal track when laying down. "


^^^This statement was part joke, and part serious; you don't want to overlook the obvious.


Emigollita wrote:


I did what you said but is still the same. I tried to use another program to record my voice over a song track, it's the same with adobe auditon, it's a sound card issue I guess... but I don't get it 😟. In garageband I created just a track, without effects, still nothing, I hear my voice with delay through the headphones......Thank you!


What are you referring to when you say 'sound card'? Does your computer have a separately installed sound card, besides its built-in (built-in to the motherboard) sound? You say "I come from Mountain Lion and never see this problem before in my old macbook pro". Then later you say you are running on a MacBook Pro. So is that the same MacBook Pro, or a newer one? And if you are on a MacBook Pro, it has built-in audio (try using that), whether you have installed some other separate "Sound Card" or audio device.


Try laying down a vocal track, without effects, in GarageBand using the built-in sound. Start by creating a New Project, and when asked for an instrument, select "Audio__Record using a microphone or line input."

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Make sure the Audio settings, found under Preferences, looks like this:

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Turn off all effects, including MASTER Echo and MASTER Reverb (see pict below).

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With Headphones on, with Input Monitoring selected (as in above pict), and without recording, just tap the built-in microphone, to where you hear it through the headphones. Is there still delay?



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GarageBand: Latency voice recording with integrated mic

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