Mic to Speaker passthru?

[Guest]

So I can plug a mic into my laptop, and use Sound Recorder to record a wave
file from the mic. Then I can turn right around and play that wave file thru
powered speakers, and all is good. But is there a tool in Windows, or a
shareware/freeware option, that passes the mic input directly to the speak
output, with whatever amplification is needed, so as to make the laptop a
light weight PA system? I do presentations a lot, where I am sitting at the
laptop doing a demo, and it would be great if I could take the mic I use for
recording presentations off-line and use it to along with powered speakers to
let the room hear me. Obviously there is no real technical hurdle, the sound
card is able to use the two devices, I just can't figure out how to get the
pass thru effect.

Thanks,
Gordon

 

[Poprivet]

So I can plug a mic into my laptop, and use Sound Recorder to record
a wave file from the mic. Then I can turn right around and play that
wave file thru powered speakers, and all is good. But is there a tool
in Windows, or a shareware/freeware option, that passes the mic input
directly to the speak output, with whatever amplification is needed,
so as to make the laptop a light weight PA system? I do presentations
a lot, where I am sitting at the laptop doing a demo, and it would be
great if I could take the mic I use for recording presentations
off-line and use it to along with powered speakers to let the room
hear me. Obviously there is no real technical hurdle, the sound card
is able to use the two devices, I just can't figure out how to get
the pass thru effect.

Thanks,
Gordon

Look in the audio mixer (double click the speaker icon in the system tray),
but I don't think it'll be very useful. With a laptop the mic and speakers
tend to feedback very easily so it may not work if you have to get near the
laptop to do anything. Unless you can get a mic with a switch on it.

Anyway, in the mixer, set the mic for output.