Comments on: Recorded Audacity tracks are off sync

By: jamaicandjnado

jamaicandjnado — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:25:21 +0000

i have the same problem but this is with audacity version 1.3 beta.
i had the older version and had none of these problems.
so i recommend you all go back to that version but download and install the VST enabler as some of u might be using vst plugins that wont work directly in the program.

By: jemimah

jemimah — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:17:18 +0000

9 o clock shadow band got it right. Thanks a bunch man

By: Wagapm

Wagapm — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 11:18:41 +0000

well, my recording slowly speeds up.
so… say i sing a 5 minute song perfectly in time to backing, when i play it back, my voice will be gradually getting ahead of the backing until it’s like 10 seconds ahead or more and sounds terrible. it’s weird and i can’t find a solution :s

By: Fullabaloney

Fullabaloney — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:12:42 +0000

If you adjust the latency correction it might solve the problem. I adjusted it to about -125 milliseconds and that seemed to do the trick.

Edit > Preferences > Audio I/O. It’s near the bottom.

By: Twisted Product

Twisted Product — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:29:34 +0000

go to youtube and type in audacity problems, a guy gives a tutorial on how to do it

By: ernesto

ernesto — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:09:24 +0000

9 o clock shadow band: your solution is perfect. I was having the same problem as the above, so I:
-switched to the latest version (1.3.7 as of now)
-did the changes specified by 9 o clock shadow band
and it worked like a charm, no more worries with synchronization.

By: tf

tf — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:36:27 +0000

audacity for some reason is always in sync during the beginning of a song, but then 5 minutes in the instrument track i recorded will be up to a measure behind, i think it is because audacity automatically tries to compensate for lag, and so changes the tempo (time but not pitch) of a track, so i always have to extend it with that effect,
its a pain to do but it may help some people

By: 9 o clock shadow band

9 o clock shadow band — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 06:21:20 +0000

Exact instructions to fix : Edit -> prefrences –> Quality tab, change default sample rate to 48000 (may work with other rates, but 48000 works fine for me ) , change real time sample rate converter to high quality sinc…make sure the high quality sample converter is also on high quality sinc.. Click ok and exit out of audicity, open it back up , record and make sure its recording at 48000, and you should be good, check out my recording from audicity on my bands site. Http://www.myspace.com/9oclockshadowLubbock

By: angeli_kpop

angeli_kpop — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:45:40 +0000

Yay! Thanks for posting this up! Mine was off sync bcuz the sample rates weren’t the same!~ ^^!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:49:51 +0000

try changing your sample rate to 48000 hz. worked for me.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:27:50 +0000

hi ducky brown, i got the same problem. what program did u download instead of audy. let me know pleaseeee im so bored of not being able to amke my music!

By: DuckyBrown

DuckyBrown — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:25:28 +0000

never mind….im about to download another audio editing program.

By: DuckyBrown

DuckyBrown — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:55:04 +0000

actually…..after I generated the silence and went to sample rate and made it the high quality insted of fast, that actually did help a lot. Try it.

By: DuckyBrown

DuckyBrown — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:46:09 +0000

Same issue here. Ive been reaserching this on the web and it must be that audacity is just weak. If anyone comes up with a real solution to this problem, PLEASE post it.

By: Nado_Rankx

Nado_Rankx — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:09:35 +0000

im having the same problem, as soon as i start playing back it is always a second or two sloer than the riddim

By: christine

christine — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:40:51 +0000

I have the same problem, but it can’t be improved by adding “silence” in the front. The problem is that the two tracks seem to be on different speeds. I record one while listening to the other (originally a click track), but the end result is that the vocal track, although it starts together with the guitar or piano, eventually ends up a WHOLE beat or two AHEAD of the instrumental.

It is ridiculous.

By: Zark

Zark — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:02:41 +0000

Does anyone else have a real answer to this problem?
I have the same issue, it’s clearly due to the fact that Audacity is weak, that the ASIO driver is wrong, or that some setting on either the sound set-up on the PC or within Audacity itself is messed up.
Adding silence to “bump” the track into sync is ridiculous.
Somebody must know how to actually correct this problem?

By: David

David — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:51:16 +0000

always offf

By: Red

Red — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:37:08 +0000

I was having the same problem. I even would record two separate but identical click tracks with my instrumental and vocals individually. Separately they were exactly on beat with the click track. When played back together they were slightly off-beat. This experiment proved that it was not my poor timing that was the problem. I still can’t figure it out so I just do what the other comment suggests and place a miniscule amount of silence before one track. A little annoying, yes, but not life-threatening.