Audio Echo

[trotter]

Just recently, ie the last day, I've started to get a bad distortion/echo effect on my ingame sounds. It sounds like everything I do, from firing guns, shutting engine off, to flaps deploying, is in a cave.

This oddly coincides with me deleting my Aces High II/sounds_c folder, which I was just using to backup other sound files, and I thought would have nothing to do with the game (I figured the game was only reading the Aces High II/sounds folder). Does this deletion of the sounds_c folder have anything to do with the echo? If not, what could be the cause?

[BaldEagl]

Does your mike have the boost turned on in Windows?  Try turning it off.  I had a similar problem once where my mike was picking up the sound from my speakers.

You might also try recalibrating the mike in the sounds and audio devices/voice/test hardware wizard in the control panal.

[The Fugitive]

do a search on these boards. I think someone had the same kind of trouble and it turned out to be something simple. Connection is crap today or Id look for ya.

[Chalenge]

Some sound cards have an ambience setting for cathedral/concert/amphitheater/etc. which you dont want to use.

[OOZ662]

Does your mike have the boost turned on in Windows?  Try turning it off.  I had a similar problem once where my mike was picking up the sound from my speakers.

This will also make you unhearable in VOX. The better option is to open the Volume Control and on the screen it starts in (ie, "playback") make sure the microphone is muted. If it isn't, the mic is playing whatever it hears back through your speakers.
A good test to see if this is the problem is to play some sort of sound and place the mic on the speaker. If you wet yourself, this is it.