|
|
 |
|
|
Pages: 1
Sb live 5.1 mic works but not in commu progs
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)
Posted by: Tripping
Hi there i just installed my sb live 5.1 digital players card and everything seems to work fine. However when i turned off the mute setting on the mic and rebooted i noticed the microphone is permanently on from the get go. Every sounbd it recieves is immediately played back over my speakers.
This is very annoying, furtermore i frequently use voice communication programs like foor instance Teamspeak 2. Yet i cant send any sound toi other people no matter what program setting i use. The mic is not muted anywhere. it is listed as the only recording device and digital sound is deactivated. The mic is working obviously as i can hear everything through my speakers. Also befoire i installed the soundcard i used my onbaord chipset and didnt have this problem.
Teamspeak worked fine and the mic was only on when actually used in TS not all the time like it is now. ?
Can anyone please help me with this cuz right now i see no other option to switch back to internal sound which kinda sux imo.
please help me what am i doing wrong here?
Posted by: BACONHEDDv6.6.6
I've used a SB Live! 5.1 Value card for a long time.On 98/ME only though.I'm running a SB Audigy on my XP machine right now though too.
I do not think you CAN have the Mic muted automatically,when you're not speaking into it.In the SB Mixer,it's either muted-or not.There may be some other software to do this,but I don't know of it.The SB 5.1 (AND Audigy for that matter) will output ANY source to the speakers (green plug) and/or "Line out/Speaker B" (black plug) if speakers are plugged into either of these.The "Mic" input is especially difficult to control,because it is a "Dedicated" channel input.The only way a Mic input could be filtered out from the Speaker A/B Line out on a 5.1/Audigy *automatically*,IS with software somehow... (an audio software "Limiter/Noise Gate" threshold maybe?...)
I don't know how the onboard audio could have done this.Not hardware wise,anyway.It must be the speech software was designed to work well with your particular onboard hardware,but for some (driver) reason,does not like the SB 5.1 hardware,or is not designed/capable of dealing with the hardware/channel layout.You may well be stuck with using the onboard.
I may have a way to get around this,but I'll have to experiment with my card first.I'll let you know if I can do it later... If you have a second set of speakers (or the plug from a 5.1 computer speaker set) plugged into the *black* plug (Speaker B/Line out),try this and let me know what happens:
1.)Go into the SB Mixer.Make sure "Line in" is muted.
2.)Go to the Speaker settings in the Mixer.Make sure it is set to "2 Speakers".
3.)Unplug any speakers/line out jacks from the *black plug*.
It probably won't change anything,but it's worth a try.Most onboard audio is of Soundblaster 16 Hardware design,and does not have a "Speaker B/Line out" plug,and doesn't support it.Maybe the "TeamSpeak" software doesn't like the 5.1 layout. If it *does* work,-hey great!- but that means you've just negated any 4 Speaker/5.1 Surround you would experience from the card.But if it works...maybe you're OK with that? I dunno.
Also-I'm pretty sure you did this already,but- did you "Disable" the onboard audio in your BIOS settings,now that you're using the SB 5.1 card? It shouldn't have any bearing on this problem whatsoever,BUT-if it is still enabled,maybe the speech software is not responding the way it could because *2* audio controllers/cards are active...
|
|
|
|
|
