Sound Card for Win 7 in General, and Audigy 2 in Specific?

I figured out the reverb problem. At least partially. First, I noticed the effect would increase as I tuned up the volume, as in duration of the echo, not just the volume. Then I remembered that the only recent change was adding Stereo Mix. So I turn the volume slider down just in Stereo Mix, and the problem went away while playing videos.

But now recording volume in Audacity is very low. I turn up Stereo Mix, and Audacity's recording volume also goes up to where it should be, but the reverb effect is like doubled.

Any work around? I have to be missing something

I'd love to get rid of Nahimic, but so far I've been unable to. In fact, trying to get rid of it is what started this whole mess anyway. Nahimic itself has not responded to my email. And MSI's own forum has not been able to help.

So I guess I'll try the reinstall Nahimic with Revo, then uninstall with Revo trick and see what happens. Now all I have to do is find my motherboard's driver disk (I think it's out in storage already...) so I can reinstall the same version of Nahimic. I do have the new version of it downloaded from MSI's site for a 'just in case.'

fireberd said:

I would install Nahimic, then uninstall both Nahimic and Realtek with Revo Uninstaller (use the "Advanced" search mode to scan the registry and hunt for left over files). Reboot the PC and run CCleaner's Registry scan. Finally do a fresh install of Realtek using the driver direct from Realtek.

Sorry for the delay in replying, things have been crazy around here and I'm just now getting back to this.

My new confusion is which Realtek driver do I install? (Yes, I thought it would be a no-brainer, too)

There's a Win 7 64 version, and a 32/64 bit combo version. Do I need the 32 bit drivers on a 64 bit system?

Also, there's both .exe and .zip versions. The scary part here is that in looking in the .zip version, there are Nahimic components in it!!!!!!!

So I have to assume they are in the .exe version, too.

I spent about two hours this morning alone trying to get rid of Nahimic, so I sure would hate to have the problem pop up again because it's embedded in the Realtek drivers themselves!

Well... I'm giving up trying to get the Effects tab in the Realtek control panel to work. Yet again I've got many more hours in backing up, un/re-installing different flavors of Realtek driver, along with the new version of Nahimic, and so on.

Nahimic still does not play well with my other utility so it is again uninstalled.

I did figure out a fix for the reverb problem, though. The trick is that when Nahimic is uninstalled, whatever settings were in effect at that time, stay as set.

So I reinstalled it, set Reverb to zero, then to off. I also zeroed out things like Voice enhancement, which made watching YouTube videos a nightmare! (All sounds in the typical vocal range were boosted so the voice was blaring while the background music seemed muted somewhat. Terrible listening!)

Thanks for all the help!!!