Audio distorted, tinny, sounds like its underwater or..

[jfar]

Hi, I dont know if you have read this or not, but it is a bit of a list
to check for sound problems, you might find it handy, if you think it is rubbish you know what to do.

Smart Computing Article - How To...Diagnose & Fix Sound Problems=

 

[jfar]

Sorry, my apologies, when I went to that page there was a list the lenght of your arm
but when I clicked on the link that I gave you , it says you have to be a paid member. Sorry, I'd do what
torrentg suggests about the Bios as my next action, again sorry for the mislead.

 

[isiegel]

Will do when I get home.

To isiegel, I really used distorted for lack of a better word. Ive tried playing some rock and it actually sounds somewhat listenable, but if I try any hiphop or anything I have it really does sound distorted, certain aspects of the sound become inaudible almost, it kinda clicks and really the best word I can think of is distorted. There is a complete lack of any bass.

Almost everything sounds like crap on my system. Some newer mp3s (i.e. Death Magnetic) will always sound distorted, but everything else does now too. This may not be an upgrade issue either, since you have a brand new machine. May be a Windows 7 driver issue.

My BIOS update didn't do anything. I'll stay tuned to the thread.

 

[glenthemann]

Will do when I get home.

To isiegel, I really used distorted for lack of a better word. Ive tried playing some rock and it actually sounds somewhat listenable, but if I try any hiphop or anything I have it really does sound distorted, certain aspects of the sound become inaudible almost, it kinda clicks and really the best word I can think of is distorted. There is a complete lack of any bass.

Almost everything sounds like crap on my system. Some newer mp3s (i.e. Death Magnetic) will always sound distorted, but everything else does now too. This may not be an upgrade issue either, since you have a brand new machine. May be a Windows 7 driver issue.

My BIOS update didn't do anything. I'll stay tuned to the thread.

Sadly I wont be home from work for another 7.5 hours so I cant do any tinkering until then, and my girlfriend is coming over for the evening so I probably wont get too much accomplished

When I say distorted I dont quite mean like guitar distortion, but rather the sound is just all over the place like its running through some kind of filter. If it were a windows 7 driver issue then I think more people would be experiencing the same problem.

Ive looked at your system specs and nothing stands out as really similar amongst our systems other than windows 7, and if that really was the case then I think this would be a more prominent issue among the community and in the world as a whole. There has to be some other similarity..

 

[glenthemann]

Wellp, bios update did nothing and now I have to reconfigure its settings ><

*sigh*

Asus still hasnt gotten back to me.. I guess I've stumped them as well.

 

[Zidane24]

Wellp, bios update did nothing and now I have to reconfigure its settings ><

*sigh*

Asus still hasnt gotten back to me.. I guess I've stumped them as well.

What driver did you install for the Sound Card?

 

[glenthemann]

Wellp, bios update did nothing and now I have to reconfigure its settings ><

*sigh*

Asus still hasnt gotten back to me.. I guess I've stumped them as well.

What driver did you install for the Sound Card?

Dont even go there.

edit::

Sorry, that was rude of me, but im quite frustrated at the moment, and if youd read the thread you would know that Ive tried about 3 different drivers, the stock ones, 2 that asus linked me to that I had already tried.

Its not a driver issue, the same issue is there with or without the "proper" drivers, I mean the basic windows 7 sound drivers work.. well, the same as any "proper" driver, I guess meaning they dont really work at all, or should I say it indicates that its not a driver issue, and if it were, then many more people would be having the same issues I presume, and Asus tech support woudlnt be stumped (which I assume they are since I havnt heard anything in almost 2 days now, I know they say allow 48 hours but at first I was getting responses in just over an hour)

Im downloading Ubuntu and installing it tonight. Will post back when its installed and whether or not I have the same sound problems. I have a strong feeling they wont be there.

 

[Zidane24]

Wellp, bios update did nothing and now I have to reconfigure its settings ><

*sigh*

Asus still hasnt gotten back to me.. I guess I've stumped them as well.

What driver did you install for the Sound Card?

Dont even go there.

edit::

Sorry, that was rude of me, but im quite frustrated at the moment, and if youd read the thread you would know that Ive tried about 3 different drivers, the stock ones, 2 that asus linked me to that I had already tried.

Its not a driver issue, the same issue is there with or without drivers.

Im downloading Ubuntu and installing it tonight. Will post back when its installed and whether or not I have the same sound problems. I have a strong feeling they wont be there.

I have read the thread and somehow I missed the drivers part...

 

[glenthemann]

Well if you must know

Ive tried
-windows default drivers
-stock drivers on the ASUS M4A79XTD EVO disc
-revision 7300 (latest on ASUS website, and one tech support linked me to after I had said I had that one installed..)
-revision 7400 (latest revision from the VIA website itself, for 64bit windows 7 PCs)

there is no newer driver.

Sorry, I get really moody when im frustrated

 

[wizarddrummer]

what worked for me...

Hi all,

I'm a recent Ubuntu convert so I don't spend much time in the Windows trenches anymore.

However, I had a similar problem with a machine that I just purchased to use in an Internet cafe I am setting up. The locals are not forward thinking and open to change so Windows is the OS I'm stuck with. I was scavenging the web for answers (as is so frequently the case when dealing with Windows version anything)

I realize that this a forum for Windows 7; Please understand that with more than 35 years of dealing with all sorts of hardware, OS's and programs, I can tell you that under the hood, Micrsoft's Windows 7 is not that much different than Vista or XP regarding sound. The company is inherently lazy and there are .sys files that date back to CP/M days or old DOS versions for some things.

Without going into a lot of dull and boring Operating System Internals; Windows operating systems have several inherent deficiencies.

In trouble shooting my problem, I noticed that the underwater audio sound lingered after pressing the pause button.

I changed some settings in the bios ... no help there.
I looked at services ... nothing out of the ordinary.
I checked Device Manager (all functioning normally w/ proper IO Ranges and IRQ's) nothing out of the ordinary.
I checked the drivers all up to date.
In short nothing appeared to be wrong.
This is a new machine that had a replacement video card put in.
So what gives?

I did what any intelligent, calm, reasonable person would do with dealing with a problem that has its roots growing from a Microsoft tree ... I hurled the machine against the wall as hard as I ... only kidding.

What I did was I went into the control panel; Add Remove programs and took out every single program that looked like it might have to have anything to do with sound, which turned out to be the Realtek drivers.

I shut the machine down; turned it on and verified that there was no sound options available both in the control panel and the device manager.

I downloaded a fresh copy of the driver from realtek and installed it.

I rebooted / restarted and the sound worked.

Can't wait to get back to my Ubuntu machine. I love it when stuff just works!

The only reason I personally have to venture back into the mucky Windows world, on rare occasions, is because I did some significant Access development years ago designing complex databases with tons and tons of Visual Basic code. Linux world has great db progs but nothing that can convert the Access beasts.

Live long and prosper...

 

[SashaB]

@ Glentheman

Have u fixed ur problem?

Search for these symptoms and listen to them..

- U hear fans humming
- U hear low but high pitched whistling sound coming from between PSU and CPU fans
- U hear more then 1 BEEP on system start up

If not try this for any case thats how i sloved mine problem...

- Uninstall Video drivers and install one u got with ur GPU...
- Uninstall Audio drivers and make fresh install...
- Turn of ur computer after installation
- Unplug everything from it ( mouse, keyboard etc etc...)
- Open Computer case and see if theres dust in PSU, CPU and GPU fans...
- Plug everything back and turn on ur computer...

From what i think is that some of ur drivers are not properly installed and some of your devices like, GPU, might not work properly even if Windows 7 is showing everything is OK...

Now i am thinking that my problem is solved by fresh install of drivers and by Power Cycle booting when i was cleaning fans... and it restored everything...

GL mate with ur problem, plz responed if this helped... anyone...

 

[nikkitremper]

is almost completely inaudible.

This applies to everything except for windows 7 operating system sounds, such as alerts, or the startup jingle, or when I am playing halflife2/counterstrike the ingame sounds work flawlessly.

A weird thing to mention is that although the ingame sounds work, I can BARELY hear anyone on their microphones talking, i can only make out their speech when I turn my volume way up, resulting in my ears bleeding from the gunshot sounds.

Mp3s, CDs, internet media (such as youtube) all experience the distorted, tinny, underwater sounding sound. I have been in contact with ASUS tech support - they are useless. I have installed the latest Win7 updates, I have the latest drivers for the onboard VIA VT1708S audio chipset, and I have all the latest codecs installed (used the CCCP pack). I have tried using MULTIPLE media players, VLC, winamp, windows media player, etc, all to no avail - which isnt the problem since in game microphone from other users doesnt run through a media player anyway. Ive made sure ANY environmental or EQ settings are disabled JUST incase those are causing an issue.

Ive tried multiple drivers, although I am 99.99999% sure it is NOT a driver issue, as the same issues arise with, or without drivers.

I have tried nearly everything I, and many others on the internet have thought of, and all I can think is that it is some sort of windows 7 software communication issue. Like I said I am in contact with ASUS tech support, but I dont think its any kind of hardware issue, and they treat me like a complete moron telling me to try things that I have already CLEARLY stated to them that I have tried (I told them exactly the driver I had installed, and that I got it directly from their website, and in the response mail I got I was told to install the same driver I had said I had installed..)

This is really, incredibly annoying, and I cannot seem to find any solutions searching the net, I have SCOURED google to no end. Ive come across people having similar issues, but no real answer was ever posted in any of the threads I came across; I guess those people gave up and put a bullet through their heads.

I dont really expect any answers,, but yeah, im hoping.

Thanks to anyone who reads.

Okay I found the problem. Right click on the speaker icon on your taskbar. Click "playback devices". Double click on headphones microphones or speakers (whichever is having the problem) and then go to the levels tab. There will be a button labeled balances. Click that and set the second scale to zero. That should take away the fact that you can barely hear them. I finally found out how to fix it. My youtube vids sounded like they were underwater. It was frustrating because I'm in college with a lot of hybrid classes. That means youtube videos and the quality of the audio made it a headache to deal with.

 

[jerms]

Old thread, but I ran into this after a rebuild

I know this thread is old, but I recently did a computer 'rebuild' and upgraded most of my stuff. I ran into the same issue as the guy who opened this thread. At first the sound in rocksmith would be great, but then it would start to get garbled, tinny and with an echo like it was underwater. The game didn't start that way, it gradually got worse as time went on. Also, if I played a song at first I could hear myself play but the sound of my guitar would fade and all I would hear would be the song (I didn't realize this was happening at first and thought I was really learning to play the guitar like a pro - lol).

Any way, I was able to fix it for myself really simply because my problem was my own simple boneheaded mistake. Right click the sound/speaker icon in the lower right and click playback devices from the popup menu. Right click the speakers or headphone you are using to play sound and select 'default device.' Not having a default playback device set or having another system selected as default really made rocksmith act crazy.

Please note my motherboard has realtek hardware on it and I am using vista 64 bit (yeah, I know. I spent money for a cpu and memory but couldn't afford a good OS and dont want to use a version I downloaded from only God knows where). Hope this helps someone, RS is old now but I still love playing it. Cant wait for the 2014 addition.

 

[WebLuke]

Working on an old computer at my internship and came across this problem today, but I also had this on my desktop running Windows 10 at home.

The only thing that fixed the problem for me on both computers / OS's was to uninstall the Sound Card drivers supplied with the card / motherboard / manufacturer. Windows drivers work just fine as far as features and the sound is clean and clear like it should be.

So to do this go to Device Manager select your sound card and Right click and Uninstall Drivers making sure to also check the Delete current drivers check box and let your computer restart.

This was a simple and effective solution for both Windows 7 and 10, and on my desktop on Windows 8.1 I was just using the windows drivers just fine.

 

[DKFiber]

8K-SDI Pattern Generator

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I have QuestTel 3G-SDI Pattern Generator that can handle HDTV NTSC or PAL and 16:9 formats to 720p and 1080p.
While I have been able to find a myriad of stand alone units, which is fine I am looking for recommendations, or stay away from's.
I also would be interested in a USB option if available for true portability (something I can throw in my laptop case).
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks all.
Dan

 

[technopredator]

I'm using Win7 Pro 64-bit, updated, and the problem I found that yes some sound were OK and some not but it depended on frequency, voice has a low frequency 0-1 Khz aprox. so after trying the suggestions to no good result, I checked the connector, I remembered that I plugged my new earphones to an audio cable extension, and there it was the problemthe extension was rather old about 4 years, so they didn't come with the modern 4 connections 3 stripes jack, the normal/old ones are 3 connections 2 stripes: