Okay, a few days later and: 1. That 2nd USB sound card I bought sort of sounds like ... crap 2. I've experimented with Virtual Audio Cable and found that I can solve the problem and not even require that second sound card OR Virtual Audio Cable.
The key is in a comment in the Virtual Audio Cable troubleshooting file: "Using VAC to route audio from the microphone, I hear an echo. How can I cancel it? An echo can appear if your audio connection scheme has some loopbacks and/or multiple repeaters. For example, each audio card can repeat (monitor) an input signal to its own output (the speakers). If monitoring is enabled (input line is not muted), you will hear your voice in the speakers even there is no audio application running. If an application records an input signal and also reproduces (repeats) it to the speakers, a signal copy is created, sounding as an echo. This copy appears slightly later due to the buffering. Input audio signal also could be copied to the speakers due to improper Virtual Cables assignment in applications. To avoid an echo, you should disable either input line monitoring in the audio card or recorded data playback in the application. You can control audio card monitoring status (volume and mute) in its volume control panel (the mixer). To disable repeating in the application, see application's settings. Also check your Virtual Cable connection scheme to avoid possible loopbacks and parallel signal paths." So I open up the Realtek HD Audio Manager, and look closely at the line-in tab, and a bit of understanding begins to grow. The line-in tab has both a Recording Volume as well as a Playback Volume. And sure enough, if I simply move the Playback Volume of the line-in tab of the Realtek HD Audio Manager to 0, well, you guess it, It's louder than ever. Nah, it's quiet. No echo. Line-in and then SBS wavein plugin broadcast to my desktop and all around my place to the other Squeezeboxen. -- ja2038 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ja2038's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40583 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35718 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
