Long delay between singing into mic and hearing voice in speakers
I've turned off the echo. sang louder, nothing seems to help. The delay from the mic to the speakers throws off my timing when attempting to sing. Is there a remedy or is my mixer deffective?
Music - Vocopro - Da1000pro Professional Digital Karaoke Mixer
Answers & Comments
Usually delay is associated with "reverb" not echo. If you are in a large room, the room acoustics can add reverb without the benefit of signal processing.
Reverb NORMALLY passes the inout signal as is and then adds in a delayed version on top.
The delay should be less than the room size delay.
Try turning off all effects as a start. There is some "transport" time if it goes through a digital signal processing.
It is called latency and is normal in digital signal processing. The music has to be synced in order to correct that, not sure of the settings of that device but this happens with almost all pc sound cards and similar devices. The unit may run a type of midi time clock from a sequencer or something which is the purpose of it in general. It's not the room, it is in those settings. Here is a link to an online manual if you need, I'll read through and see later if I can figure out a way to correct it.
http://www.manualslib.com/manual/187822/Vocopro-Da-1000pro.html
This also seems to be a mix problem as well, you may have the delay turned up too high hearing ONLY the delay and NOT any of the original signal. Try turning the mix setting of the delay down and see if that helps. You have to hear a certain amount of the original or "dry" sound in order to avoid this. I'll look over tha manual for more info.