Line-In Sound Delay while recording

Shumi:

I have owned a Toshiba Qosmio Windows 7 Pro for about 4 years now, and have been unable to use my Magic Jack with a headset because of this issue.

Unfortunately, your suggestion does not work, and at the end of the day, there is still a slight delay in the sidetone (what is being spoken through the headset).

I have tried your suggestions and much more.

The delay (or latency), while minimal, still interferes dramatically with both conversations and voice recording while playing back music.

After reviewing several forums for headsets, it is clear that there is an inherent problem within Windows 7 itself, as no one seems to have noted a real fix for it.

The sidetone in my telephone handset (when plugged into my Magic Jack) works fine, and I have resigned myself to waiting until I get my next computer (hopefully a Surface Pro 3) before being able to use a headset that will give me "realtime" sidetone.

Fort anyone reading this who doesn't know what Sidetone is, it is the ability to monitor your own voice while you speak. Sidetone is present in all desktop telephones. As it is not normally included as a feature in cellphones, the lack of Sidetone is what makes people speak so loud and obnoxiously, as they are mistakenly trying to compensate for background noise.

When using my regular handset telephone with my Magic Jack, I can be anywhere and speak normally into the phone without shouting (which can be annoying at any Starbuck's). Without sidetone on a headset boom mike, the same shouting will occur, as you can't monitor your own voice.

Toshiba has also insisted that this was a Windows issue after going back and forth with me on this. Their own technicians tested their own windows 7 Qosmio and experienced the same mini-second delay and re-emphasized to me that this was a windows issue.

Realtek said the same thing.

That was 2 years ago, and still the problem exists. This tells me that the issue is being disregarded for some reason, and I hope that the problem does not appear in Windows 8.1.

As I use an external audio program (Presonus Studio 1 Pro), I bypass both Windows 7 and the sound card, so recording voiceovers on music is not a problem. However, for my VOIP calling, I have to lug my desktop telephone in my computer case and plug it into my Magic Jack as I have done since owning the computer. Thanks for the help, anyway.

Ron

http://i.imgur.com/8wLU2.jpg - Before you uninstall drivers or blame hardware, make sure to try this. This solved the problem I'd been having for weeks and it comes down to making sure the PLAYBACK for your mic / line in is not muted from the PLAYBACK tab. DO NOT go into recording and check "Listen to this device," which should be MUTED.

If you go select "LISTEN TO THIS DEVICE" your playback will be slightly delayed by about 200ms.

From the PLAYBACK tab in Sounds, right click on SPEAKERS, go into the LEVELS tab and unmute Microphone. It should now play back in real time.

I used to plug my guitar into the Line in and jam along. It worked fine until I upgraded to Win 7.

What you are suggesting is to apparently mute the Line in feed? Are you serious??

How can one jam along if you can't listen to the feed from Line In?

I think I may be looking for the registry entries that control the "listen to this device" option.  I have read others have changed this value and have fixed their problem.  Does anyone know where the speaker and mic entries would be in Win 7?

Thanks!