I apologise if that was confusing, but my question is this: How do I turn the direct monitoring component of my microphone back on? My primary recording software is Ableton Live 8, if that makes any difference.

Now, the only way I can hear input from my mic is if it is armed in a recording program, and because the direct monitoring feature appears to be turned off, even though my headphones are plugged directly into the mic there is still significant latency, because the input has to run first through the program, then back through the mic and to my headphones. However, in my messing around with settings, I apparently somehow managed to turn off the Yeti's direct-monitoring feature.īefore I was messing with the audio settings on my laptop, as soon as the yeti was plugged in, I'd get direct feedback, zero latency through my headphones, whether there was a recording program running or not. This should have been a pretty easy fix, I should have just kept monitoring the input of the mic directly, and just had the software send its output through the mic, thereby having no latency. However, I made the mistake of running the input of the mic through the laptop software and back out, obviously causing some latency. Then, I started playing around with settings and stuff so that I could hear music and my voice through the headphones simultaneously. I couldn't figure out how to get playback from the laptop to run through the microphone, but the direct feedback headphone input in the microphone itself worked, there was no latency when I spoke into the microphone. When I first got it and plugged it in, I was a total amateur, but it worked exactly like it was supposed to. I recently purchased a Yeti Blue USB microphone to be used for recording onto my laptop, which runs Windows 7. Hello all, this is my first post so bear with me.

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