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Very weird sound problems
I am having an odd sound problem on the kid's computer. It's an older
machine - P450 w Win 98 ES1868 sound card. The sound has always been fine until a few days ago. Now it has a weird tone to it. It's a bit trembly, but the odd part is the mix. For example when playing a song, the music and the background simgers will be loud and clear, but the main singer will be faint and hollow sounding. It works this way for mp3s and video sound. Wavs seem fine, but they have no music so I can't tell for sure. It's like some parts are comong through and others aren't (or are very faint) I've checked the headphones and speakers, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers, and checked for any conflicts under system properties, and looked at multimedia properties. Nothing is showing as a problem. I checked the net for this problem, but all I found was endless pieces of advice about what to do if you get no sound at all. Anyone? |
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As far as I can determine, there are no setting options for this card.
It is a P&P and has no options. It's worked fine for 5 years and then went wonky. Diagnostics all show it as working fine, but the sound is way off. You've made me think it must be something with the channels that are wrong. I thought it might be, but that wouldn't account foor the wavering. Jo Bob Masta wrote: I don't have any specific advice, but the symptom of background singers coming through OK but the lead singer faint, sounds like a "karaoke" setup. Any chance you might have activated some special effect on this card? If not, then the next thing to look for is phase reversal. The lead singer is normally mixed about equally into L and R, so if you add L and R with one inverted you get this sort of effect.. in mono, of course. Getting stereo with a missing center usually requires a more involved setup, as for karaoke. Not sure how that could happen by accident. Sorry! Best regards, Bob Masta On 30 Jul 2005 11:15:19 -0700, wrote: I am having an odd sound problem on the kid's computer. It's an older machine - P450 w Win 98 ES1868 sound card. The sound has always been fine until a few days ago. Now it has a weird tone to it. It's a bit trembly, but the odd part is the mix. For example when playing a song, the music and the background simgers will be loud and clear, but the main singer will be faint and hollow sounding. It works this way for mp3s and video sound. Wavs seem fine, but they have no music so I can't tell for sure. It's like some parts are comong through and others aren't (or are very faint) I've checked the headphones and speakers, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers, and checked for any conflicts under system properties, and looked at multimedia properties. Nothing is showing as a problem. I checked the net for this problem, but all I found was endless pieces of advice about what to do if you get no sound at all. Anyone? |
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wrote in message oups.com... I am having an odd sound problem on the kid's computer. It's an older machine - P450 w Win 98 ES1868 sound card. The sound has always been fine until a few days ago. Now it has a weird tone to it. It's a bit trembly, but the odd part is the mix. For example when playing a song, the music and the background simgers will be loud and clear, but the main singer will be faint and hollow sounding. It works this way for mp3s and video sound. Wavs seem fine, but they have no music so I can't tell for sure. It's like some parts are comong through and others aren't (or are very faint) I've checked the headphones and speakers, uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers, and checked for any conflicts under system properties, and looked at multimedia properties. Nothing is showing as a problem. I checked the net for this problem, but all I found was endless pieces of advice about what to do if you get no sound at all. Anyone? I'm wondering if that's some sort of interference/short circuit between the left and right channels. Some sound editing software has tools to remove vocals which exploit the differences between the channels... it could be that there's a cable fault or something that's having the same kind of effect. |
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