Voice losing tempo

[subhsen]

I'm planning to start a small voice recording studio, and I'm just testing my voice with karaoke tracks with Nuendo.

Mine is a PC with 3GHz, ordinary sound-card and 256MB RAM. I'm recording with computer mic-headphone.

Though I'm singing along with the music track, when I play back, I get my voice losing tempo.

Is this because of the sound-card or RAM? I know that I'll have to buy a better mic, a mixer, another sound card and a converter...


Thanks.

 

[Crumbles]

oh dear...

 

[Tifstorey]

When you say 'losing tempo' do you mean it starts correct and loses it during the playback? If this is the case, it sounds like it's down to the ram - although one channel recording shouldn't take up too much.. it could be down to the mic-headphone?

If your not on such of a budget - i'd recommend purchasing the mic and soundcard you're after and have another go.

Keep us updated

PS - Sorry about Watermelon, he blatantly has nothing better to do at this time of night than leave pointless comments trying to increase his post count.

 

[subhsen]

Hi Tifstorey....

Thanks for your reply. However, I have got an excellent solution which works perfectly alright with even my sound card Realtek AC97.

Just googled and read somewhere about ASIO4ALL.com, which is a free ASIO driver for almost any card. I just installed it and latencies of input and output became equal at 25ms with 512 buffer size. It goes down to 13/13ms with 256. So, now with Realtek AC97 and my comp's headphone-mic I can record song in one stretch from beginning to end without losing a single beat.

Realtek AC97 doesn't really produce a great sound for meeting even home studio standard, but it's not bad for testing the water before buying expensive cards.

Hope this helps newbies like me...

 

[Tifstorey]

Glad you got it sorted. Never heard of that before, but at least you managed to find out the source of the problem.

Tif,

 

[dementedchord]

PS - Sorry about Watermelon, he blatantly has nothing better to do at this time of night than leave pointless comments trying to increase his post count.

i suspect watermelons crack alert went off... realtek and a $2k app???