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I think I must have set something up wrong. I’m using BAE to listen to talk MP3s. When I listen to them without BAE, they sound fine, but when I use BAE they have that gurgly under water sound. It doesn’t seem to matter what preset I use or how I set the options. The odd thing is, it worked find for a few hours before it started doing this, now I can’t get it to stop.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
TeresaHi Teresa!
Strange. Don’t worry, I’ll get to the bottom of it.
Please check in the ABOUT box, which version are you using?
Best regards,
Leif Claesson1.20.12
I just downloaded it last night. I’m checking out the trial and really hoping it works for me!
1.20.12 has a lot of milage, at least then we can rule out a bug.
If you’re playing a low bitrate file, and apply too heavy processing, it could possibly sound like it’s under water. Could you try the "Reference Settings" preset, and also set all the sliders to the middle position?
///Leif
I think that the problem of Teresa are an activated sound effect on the soundcard software.
If BAE use KS driver, is possible that BAE bypasses this effect and only applies without BAE.
It’s only one idea, I don’t know if BAE uses KS…
Leif: I tried every preset and had the same problem (well, with the ones that didn’t distort the audio too much to tell anyway.) I tried moving the sliders from 100 to 50 and had the same issue.
I ended up uninstalling BAE because with it running I couldn’t listen to audio because of the under water issue, and when I shut it down it left my volume at such a low level that even at max volume I could barely hear anything. The only way I know to reset my volume level is to reboot which is a big pain. I still would like to get the software to work though. Is there an easier way to reset the volume level? (Audio is not something I know anything about!)
Thanks,
TeresaHow odd! I’m not quite sure what’s going on — never heard of anyone having this particular problem.
When you get a chance to try Breakaway again, could you try the Reference Classical preset with all settings in the middle? This is the most gentle preset yet offers strong normalization — I would be very surprised if any underwater artifacts surface with these settings.
If you ever have to shut down Breakaway, you should be able to adjust the volume from your standard windows volume control. Usually you can find this volume control by double-clicking on the little speaker down in the tray:
However, if you don’t see it, you can always click Start, Run, and type in sndvol32.
You definitely should not have to restart Windows, although you may have to restart your player or other programs that play audio.
///Leif
Well shoot.
Yeah, I know how to adjust my volume that way. I know THAT much about audio. 😉 But it was acting much like RealAudio used to and resetting "normal" for my volume. So for example say volume goes from 1 to 10 normally. After running and shutting down BAE, my volume now goes from -5 to 5. I have to reboot to get it back to the 1-10 it should be at.
It sounds like it’s a problem on my end though, so I’ll have to just do some research here. I *really* want this to work! I go to sleep listening to talk radio and I’m tired of being woken up by loud commercials!
Teresa
quote :Yeah, I know how to adjust my volume that way.My apologies — I had to make sure to be thorough. 😉
-5 to +5 sounds really strange! It really shouldn’t be possible. Unless…
Are you seeing both Master and Wave volume?
Note the beautiful hand drawing 🙂.
If for example a program lowered the Wave volume, then turning up the Master volume all the way up would still not yield full volume.
If you don’t see both Master and Wave, please look at Options / properties in the system volume control:
Make sure they’re both checked in the list.
Any chance you could post a screenshot of the Breakaway settings? After you’ve completed the wizard and started Breakaway, right-click the meters (not the scopes) and choose Settings.
It should look something like this:
It could provide useful clues.
Best,
///LeifHi Leif,
Thanks for being so helpful. I’ll (hopefully) reinstall Breakaway later today and try it again. I can get a screenshot then for you. I left everything at default though. The only thing I can think is that I selected the smallest buffer size.
Your hand drawing is very impressive! But sadly, yes I do have both Master and Wave. I say "sadly" because that would have been an easy fix!
Teresa
I’m not sure but I think the problem could come from the buffer size setting. Don’t try to set it at the smallest setting, try set it at the largest setting. If it works, then try smaller values to find the smallest one that works.
But I think Leif will give you a better explanation 🙂I’ve reinstalled it and left it at the medium buffer setting. I had the thought that perhaps Total Recorder could have been causing the problem because it behaves similarly as far as changing the default volume, so I uninstalled TR before re-installing BAE. Now I’m listening to MP3s to see if I get the under water effect after a while.
One thing I’m seeing, when I run dxdiag, under Sound 1 is Breakaway Pipeline 1, Sound 2 is Playback through Total Recorder (emulated), and Sound 3 is Realtek HD Audio output. I have cleaned all traces of TR out of the registry (after uninstalling it), so I’m not sure why it’s still showing as a valid sound option. Nor do I know how to change it.
Anyway, I’m testing things now. I’ll get a screenshot if I run into problems.
Teresa
Ok, it appears that Total Recorder was causing the volume problem. I don’t know why, Total Recorder wasn’t running. It occurred to me though that TR behaved the same way BAE was and so maybe the problem was TR and not BAE. Now that TR is uninstalled, shutting down BAE doesn’t affect the volume of my system at all. So now I guess I have to figure it out with the TR guys!
I haven’t had any more under water effect either, so perhaps that was simply too small of a buffer size. I’ll keep testing it and make sure all is good, but so far so good! 8)
Teresa
Glad it’s finally working — thanks for not giving up!
Too small buffer size wouldn’t make it sound under water, it would make it sound choppy / stuttery / glitchy.
Breakaway should be able to help you replace TotalRecorder’s functionality. When you’re using Breakaway, all the audio you’re playing on your computer appears on "Breakaway Pipeline 1". Thus, all you need to do to record, is to set your favourite audio recorder app to record from this device, and you’ll be able to record the output of any program (except breakway itself), most conveniently.
Best,
///Leif
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