pickyaudioguy

It might be nice to be able to use BAE without having to use the Pipeline. I don’t have much experience with BreakawayOne but in the demo version I was able to configure it to use VB-Audio’s HiFi Cable for looping audio. Just a suggestion.

OMG… Another note: ASIO4ALL seemed to get messed up also so maybe there was a root change in the audio structure for Windows. I have another machine that I’m blocking Windows update so I’ll possibly get another chance to check this out.

I had the same problem with Windows 10 yesterday when I opened BAE (configured to not autostart). After an update 2 days ago (computer off for a week or so) BAE was a non-starter. Had to uninstall. Also uninstalled my audio card driver (shotgun technique maybe to aggressive to figure out the real cause). Here the dangerous part and I’ll get yelled at… Used CCleaner (older style interface “virus free” version 6.00.9727) to clean the registry after uninstall and reboot (to unload any BAE/Audio card drivers). Been doing this for years and can’t say I’ve ever had CCleaner break anything that was installed properly. Actually never remember anything being broken by CCleaner (yet). CCleaner removed pointers to things not installed (could see audio related stuff being cleaned up) and then after a second reboot I reinstalled audio driver and (after required install reboot) made sure the audio card was working correctly and installed BAE v1.42.00. All’s back to functionality. Here’s what I see though when I check the version of the Pipeline.

Driver Provider: Eugene Muzychenko
Driver Date: 9/13/2020
Driver Version: 4.64.0.11318

I did not notice if the driver was uninstalled upon the uninstall of the broken BAE so I was wondering if somehow there was a background update to the Pipeline since it’s not version 4.31 as Milky stated above.

Oh that problem… ;-D Your system is a lot more powerful than mine. What about large old heavy bed blankets to cover the shelving (and whatever is buzzing)? That might reduce the acoustic energy moving stuff on the shelves and it might attenuate the buzzing several dB by covering it also.

I usually pull my subs away from the wall somewhat (sometimes that’s awkward in a room) to reduce the room resonance. That will alter the response of the system somewhat which may or may not be acceptable. Got yelled at by my wife for putting tiny rubber pads under different “knick knacks” and behind picture frames and cabinet doors in our house to stifle the buzzing. I’ll listen to music (or a musical TV show) and suddenly I’m up off the chair twisting my head around tryin’ to find the buzzing (a picture frame, a cabinet door, some decoration, whatever). She always rolls her eyes and says, “don’t know what you’re hearing!?” The room will have strong sound energies at specific locations and these locations will vary with the frequency of the sound also. Like I said… Find what is vibrating and move it to another location or find small rubber or foam pads to dampen the buzz. Sometimes moving the speakers will also help the resonant locations. I can’t imagine how difficult that’ll be in a garage (let alone in my family room).

Now with digital audio it is possible to find music recorded with loose stuff in the background or distortion in one channel (making me think I’ve popped a speaker driver). Then I listen on headphones and the same sound is there.

Good luck.