First off I want to say a big thank you to folks like Rob, John, Mac etc. here! You really do help me understand BIAB and all of its wonderful potential.

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BiaBGuy, there are several problems there, for one having a Logitech mike is always going to be problematic. It is a USB device that will act as a sound card, and not one made for recording. As Mac pointed out USB "class compliant" devices can be somewhat confusing to a system program like BiaB that is looking for devices to input and output sound. So with two USB devices for the output, and input devices, both trying to supply a clock to the system, so timing can go awry, and neither is really made for that type of process. The Logitech mike is made for stuff like skype and IM programs, not recording audio.



Thanks for this info about the Logitech camera! I did not know that it was actually acting as a sound card.
That could possibly explain why I'm getting out of my Logitech USB speakers (I have both a Logitech camera and Logitech speakers).

To be clear. I wear two hats with my system. One hat is 'everyday Joe', who is very very content with listening to .mp3 files or watching Youtube videos with sound coming from my Logitech USB speakers.
In fact I prefer listening to this audio this way. I'll explain why shortly.

The second hat is worn by 'Joe musician' who is very serious about music. Joe musician has very sensitive ears though, and while the fidelity of music played through his Edirol UA-25EX/Electrovoice ND 257 mic/amp/mixer/Tannoy speakers/etc. is much much better than the tinny sound he gets through his el cheapo Logitech speakers, he prefers listening to all his computer music through them. He gets annoyed by the hums of his amp, power adapters etc. and prefers the hum-free, quiet, tinny Logitech speakers to them.

When I use BIAB it's mostly to get my bass and drum tracks ready for export to Reaper or ACID etc.
When they're ready, I render them and out they go. Once they're imported to Reaper/ACID etc. I plug in my guitar amp to my Edirol (direct) and record my guitar part.

Again all of this is done through my tinny el-cheapo Logitech speakers. In the end, once I get a good finished product and want to impress myself or a friend, I will turn on my amp/mixer and play the song back through my Tannoy speakers. That's just me.

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If you have a edirol interface, you need to unplug the other stuff and plug it in before turning on the system to record, and allow windows to see that and make sure that this is the input and output devices. Use it as a dedicated sound card, and forget other items



I think the above will make it clear why I don't do this. In fact it's the other way around. My Edirol is left unplugged most of the time and only plugged in when I want to record my guitar.

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On my system I use an M-Audio sound card, and it handles all my sound for BiaB, and even any windows and other music noises i might make.



This has got me thinking now. I have a couple of sound cards that I forgot about.
A Digidesign AMIII sound card that cost me over $1000 many years ago and an el cheapo $20 special '4-channel' sound card.
Over the years I tried a few times to get my AMIII to work with Win XP but for some reason I just couldn't do it. A driver problem.

I'm sure my el cheapo would work though. Maybe I'll dig it out for fun.

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Get a real mike and plug that into the edirol, and also plug in any speakers to the edirol. Get some non USB speakers and a non USE mike and let the Edirol interface and it's drivers control the system.

Most of your problems will go away.



See above.

BIABguy