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    Volume control program

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by TheRunaway, Apr 13, 2007.

  1. TheRunaway

    TheRunaway Notebook Consultant

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    I have a USB sound card that I often connect and remove from my laptop, but I need some software to manage the volume. I want to have a specific volume setting for windows when it is not plugged in, and I want it to recognize when my USB card has beeen inserted and load a different volume setting for it. Does anybody know of such a program?
     
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    I have been looking for something similar to that for ages. In the end, I never found anything like it, and had to solve my problem by switching to Mac OS X and updating to Windows Vista.
     
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  3. hehe299792458

    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    My external sound card came with that on the CD. Did you check the disc to make sure that it isn't there?
     
    hehe299792458, Apr 13, 2007
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  4. LFC

    LFC Ex-NBR

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    Slightly off topic... seriously bear with me :D

    About external usb/pcmcia sound cards and/or usb DACs possibly fed into an amp...

    If you care or use bit perfect music playback, through kernel or ASIO streaming (e.g. plugins in Winamp/Foobar), your volume in your music player software of choice should be maxed, with volume controlled on your sound card's own volume dial. This is because adjusting it on your PC alters the bit depth. By bit depth I refer to no re-sampling or digital processing of any kind, inc volume control

    If you use a Mac, its 10x easier :p Macs have optical out and are bit-perfect by default. So turn off EQ and all effects in iTunes! No, I do not know how to get iTunes in Windows to be bit-perfect, without using iTunes as a frontend for foobar
     
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  5. WackyT

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    Well, I do know my E1705 has an SPDIF output in the SVideo port. Can't you just output the 2-channel PCM stream through the SPDIF output?
     
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  6. TheRunaway

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    The thing is, I'm using the Turtle Beach AA Micro and for some reason, the TB drivers make the sound really distorted, as if the volume is maxed. So I'm using the default (automatically detected) drivers from windows, but that means I can't use the included Turtle Beach software. So I'm still trying to find something.
     
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  7. Guest

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    Guest, Apr 13, 2007
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