How to Fix Audio Latency with Audacity

Are there audio delays that keep bugging you?
Even if takes a couple of milliseconds to hear, it is still irritating, right?

In this new Audacity tutorial video, I’ll will show you how Audacity helps you
with Audio Latency! Latency can become a problem when recording vocals or playing a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) device because audio isn't played back in real-time. It is a milliseconds delay but it can ruin your recording or projects so make sure you thoroughly watch the whole video of Mike so you will get the best of it!

If you want to learn to improve your sound and mix audio, check out the entire playlist:

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0:00 Audacity Latency Correction
0:10 Get your PRESETS!
0:33 What is Latency and Sample Audios
1:27 Latency Corrections
2:56 Learn EVERYTHING about Audacity!

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🎙Cool Stuff For Audio Creators🎙

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Hi there! I'm Mike Russell from Music Radio Creative. I am an Adobe Certified Professional and my aim is to teach you the secrets you need to know to create better-sounding audio with the use of various techniques. From Adobe Audition tips and tricks to your choice of microphones, audio gear, home recording setup, and many more! Podcasters, Livestreamers, Filmmakers, and even YouTubers can make use of what I am about to show!

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#audacitytutorial #audacity #audacityediting

[AdrianAgnic]

Mike, very helpful. I just started to fiddle with some recordings and really did not even think about a possible latency issue. Great help from you !!! Took a quick search and a 5 min fix

[smacdsmaccers]

thanks, i used to brute force just clipping the extra milliseconds
this helps a lot

[davidhatred]

thanks for this, so much of my stuff has been janked up by time discrepancies

[ItsTreyJordan]

Bout to go viral. Thank you. I've been struggling with this shit for years

[JeffAllenNJ]

When I attempt to recreate your tutorial, my second track is blank!!! Did you forget to mention any settings that need to be CHANGED in Audacity so that the previously recorded track is "looped" back into the new track?

[cherielatson]

I seem to have a different version of Audacity where I go to Edit then Preferences, and then it says MIDI Devices instead of Devices, but the number is 7, not -130 for some reason.

[djp]

Changing the latency compensation setting in my preferences seems to have no effect at all on the amount of latency I hear on playback.

[YosefKaner]

I encounter an additional problem with Audacity. When I add vocal tracks to an instrumental track, sometimes the playback stalls a tiny bit, randomly, adding more latency. To sync the vocals to the music I then have to manually remove large chunks of latency, or, if it is too messed up, to re-record and hope the playback doesn't stall too much. How would you fix this? More RAM?

[gabedrummer]

Thank you!! I though I was going crazy 🤪

[Reactionswithkaggwa]

Why is my recording not aligning with my video? I record 5 minutes via audacity and my iPhone 14 Pro Max but when I sync, the audio could be 3 minutes. How do I fix this?

[sandravriese]

For recording on the second stereo track, do you play back the first track on the PA so the mic will pick it up again?

[theprodizy]

I tried this on mine and it still didn’t fix the delay on mine . Is there something else I can do to fix it ?

[rivrxr]

if i have a audio file that is single track only and i have audio which sounds like i have a second lagged duplicate baked in ( like an echo but you know its not reverb), i presume there is no way to fix this?

[UniversalUniversum-oekd]

I dont know how it can works when you made a click with random moments. Computer show you how far is first click to second click. Isnt a latention

[jumbyrocks]

How would you do this with a audio interface and a guitar?

[Pooja_S_]

hey, it is very helpful.. many thanks for this.... actually I am new to audacity, and I found your videos and tutorials really very helpful one more thing, , , I've imported one MP3 track, and when I am recording my vocals with it, the track sound is so loud as compare to my vocals. so is there any way to minimize the track volume a bit or I have to use the "normalize" option? please help..

[Lhopsecker]

Is this what I need to do for when I record a conference with several cameras and audio recorders at different places around the room? When I sync the audio and video sources while editing, they start off synced well and then start getting out of sync the farther into the video I get.

[m.kealamillesjr]

Is not working for me at all. I've tried restarting from scratch and each time the latency measur is different but no matter how I change it there is never an improvement. In fact, I can make it worse, but never better

[CoreyAndrewmedia]

Hello there. Your videos are really helpful. I have a new issue, all of a sudden my mic, a new Yeti, started to lag when I speak into the mic. I can hear the lag in real time through my earphones as a I speak. I have never experienced this and it's vert strange like a slight echo/reverb sound, using Audacity. Any thoughts?

[Rin-cufz]

Hi, I manage to over come this latency problem... However when I switch on the monitoring, the delay is still there.... What can i do? I coudn't find anwer online TxT