Author Topic: Got sound problem I can't figure out. (Read 243 times)

SunKing · « **on:** November 26, 2005, 07:10:29 PM »

This just started happening. Anything I play.. movies,games,audio files ect. I now have an echo effect, like all my sounds are playing in a large concert hall. I've checked all my audio settings and muted line in, mic ect and the echo is still there. I never downloaded the soundblaster music suite so I don't have the app to add reverb , echo in the 1st place so that isn't left on. Any ideas on this? I haven't a clue and it's driving me nuts.

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SkyChimp · « **Reply #1 on:** November 26, 2005, 07:26:44 PM »

<-had the same problem can't remember what it was... tho

It can be fixed..

eagl · « **Reply #2 on:** November 26, 2005, 07:30:05 PM »

You may have accidentally turned on your microphone in playback panel instead of the recording panel.

Or you set your speaker type in the advanced windows audio setup to more speakers than you have.

llama · « **Reply #3 on:** November 27, 2005, 01:23:10 PM »

My wife's machine did this for a while.

The sound card's updated driver came with a "sound effects" control panel. There were effects for "concert hall," "movie theater," and so on. The echoing was really bad.

I'm trying to remember where I turned this off. Start with the Sound control panel in windows. Or set the effect to "none," which I seem to recall was a possibility too.

-Llama

SunKing · « **Reply #4 on:** November 27, 2005, 06:26:26 PM »

Ya this is weird. After 3 reboots it stopped. It comes and goes. I'll check those solutions, thanks.

Estes · « **Reply #5 on:** November 27, 2005, 07:03:58 PM »

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Originally posted by SunKing
Ya this is weird. After 3 reboots it stopped. It comes and goes. I'll check those solutions, thanks.

To go into more detail, it's called EAX effects. Not completely sure if the sound card you have has the same things as mine or not. But, this is what it should look like. If you have it enabled, there will be a creative volume control icon in the taskbar. If not, it should be in your start bar.

SunKing · « **Reply #6 on:** November 27, 2005, 08:44:47 PM »

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Originally posted by Estes
To go into more detail, it's called EAX effects. Not completely sure if the sound card you have has the same things as mine or not. But, this is what it should look like. If you have it enabled, there will be a creative volume control icon in the taskbar. If not, it should be in your start bar.

I never downloaded those gimmicks, drivers only. I checked all my sound settings and reinstalled the drivers.. it went away.. who knows.

Octavius · « **Reply #7 on:** November 28, 2005, 01:59:19 AM »

All creative drivers have had the funky effects now and then. Without the software, its almost impossible to turn it off. It happened to me several times before I figured it wasnt shoddy drivers, but a setting defaulting to 100% reverb and 100% chorus... sometimes for mic input and others for the all sound. It mainly showed up when Il2 would crash, leaving reverb on high.