Blue Microphone: Records but can't hear anything realtime in headphones

[jmflu]

I got a blue snowball microphone (USB) and had 2 problems.

On XP, I can get it recognized and record stuff (I use Acid Pro) but while I am recording (with headphones) I dont hear anything in the head phones. Where do I change these settings?

2nd problem,

On vista, I found a setting to 'listen through this device' which when I selected allowed me to hear myself in the headphones but there was a lag of probably a second which I am going to be recording over music and that is very distracting and makes it worthless to me.

I was hoping maybe it wouldnt lag on XP but I cant even get it set up so I can hear myself in the headphones,

any help would be appreciated....

 

[moresound]

I'm not that familiar with acid but with others you have to set up headphones.
What kind of preamp do you have?

 

[jmflu]

This is a USB micrphone and its supposed to be plug and play powered through the USB.

 

[moresound]

I see you'll have to wait for someone else for I don't use USB mics at all. Just regular mics.

 

[jmflu]

ahh ok yea Im a noob and this is supposed to be a really user friendly mic but im finding out otherwise...

 

[moresound]

The mic seams to be working fine your problem is in the latency of your monitoring.

 

[Chili]

I've never used a USB mic either, but I think the major disadvantage with them is they don't have an Audio out or means for listening to the playback. In most DAW's, you can only select ONE audio interface and it has to be able to stream both Audio In and Audio Out. The Blue Mic and most other USB mics don't provide an Audio Out function.