"What U Hear" Help!

Ok...so i installed the latest drivers for my Soun Blaster X-Fi and "What U Hear" showed up like it should. Now it just doesn't pick-up the audio. So i hear from some people to buy a mixer, i bought a mixer and had a cord running from the PC Audio OUT to the IN on the mixer, and from the OUT on the mixer to the MIC (Pc Audio IN)....this worked a lil bit but the sound had Vibrations in it, fuzziness at times, high pitched at times...and was just worse if i turned up any sound on the mixer. So i tried another idea someone gave me and connected an Audio cable from the OUT on the pc to the IN on the pc...and it worked just as good as the mixer...with the humming, fuzziness, high pitch, vibrations. I can't Figure it out! I'm trying to get this to work with Recording but not only that i want to do LIVE broadcasting on a site called Justin.tv but when my friend listens to it it has the vibrations in it like my computer shows as well.. Any ideas
Oh and i was using Windows VISTA...which i hate then i upgraded to Windows 7 Release Candidate...all tho it hasn't made it any better. Honestly its wierd cuz it works better sometimes and then sometimes the sound is much, much worse. Any help wud be appreciated.
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6., Build 700) (700.winmain_win7rc.09042-700)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
System Model: Studio 540
BIOS: BIOS Date: 2/25/08 0:8:43 Ver: 0.0.
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q8200 @ 2.33GHz (4 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
Memory: 892MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 892MB RAM
Page File: 867MB used, 452MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (00 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.0.700.0000 32bit Unicode
Display Devices:
Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT (Prerelease - WDDM .)
Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Chip type: GeForce 9800 GT
DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC
Device Key: Enum\PCI\VEN_0DE&DEV_0605&SUBSYS_062D0DE&REV_A2
Display Memory: 2544 MB
Dedicated Memory: 497 MB
Shared Memory: 2046 MB
Current Mode: 024 x 768 (32 bit) (60Hz)
Sound Capture Devices
Description: "What U Hear" (Creative SB X-Fi)
Default Sound Capture: Yes
Default Voice Capture: Yes
Driver Name: ctaud2k.sys
Driver Version: 6.00.000.374 (English)
Driver Attributes: Final Retail
Date and Size: 6/3/2009 22:28:56, 685592 bytes
Cap Flags: 0x
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hmmmdonuts wrote:
I have windows XP and mediasource for my Zen Touch. I had heard that by using mediasource DRM encoded songs could be recorded by using the what u hear feature of mediasource and then sent to the touch. The problem is i cant find this feature anywhere. If anyone could help me with an step by step process of how to enable/activate this feature that would be great
If you have a sound card then just use the line in from the card to record from the player. Just select line-in as the source so recording.

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Hmm. I'm wondering if this is a common problem and just unnoticed or very rare (I found it a few times via Google search, but no solutions).
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- Set Microphone Input to 00%
- Enable Microphone Boost
- Set Windows Sound Output Volume to 00% (if you got boxes, lower the volume, of course)
- If you got a Mic: Mute it via Hardware Switch or just make sure it doesn't record anything or unplug it from the sound-card
- Start a Media Player and play loud music (set Volume to 00% here as well)
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- turn off the music
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Get the latest drivers to lose functionality? Sounds like something apple would pull on you!
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I tried to do some research and it looks like you need to have an external device and its drivers, such as an external microphone, installed on the computer to record audio that can be saved as a sound file. Another Suggestion is to try an auxiliary spliter for your headphones and external speakers?
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"What you hear" recording volume is too

I have Soundblaster Audigy 2 on Vista 64-bit. I recently downloaded new drivers (6.0..242). This is after converting from XP and old drivers.
My "What you hear" settings work and will record using MediaSource Player, but the volume on the recorded file is about 25% the volume of the original file. This is verified upon replaying both the original and newly-recorded files side-by-side or right after one another.
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Jamrock wrote:
Where abouts is this located? I can only see "Microphone, Line in, CD Player, Video, AUX, Stereo Mix, Mono Mix"
Which card/software you got there?
If you use "Creative Surround Mixer" --> you can set the .REC source by pressing the icon located above recording level slider.
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"what you hear" playing all the t

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Looking for a solution as I use voice communication software almost daily to coordinate with project leaders. It is very annoying not being able to hear anything without it being echoed back to them.
I hope this post makes sence to you as I am not all that versed in english =(.
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In order to hear people talking I will need my wave output unmuted...
so I dont think this will work.
As for that yes, It does not record anything (sndrec32) when I play music or something but then again I cannot hear anyone so it somewhat defeats the purpose. Let me take another crack at explaining this
Example:
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3) Once I turn off the music he can hear me ok again, but every little system sound that occurs he can hear at double the volume.
Also just to clarify, I only have the microphone input selected in recording and I have all the playback selections muted except for "wave" and "playback"Message Edited by Spyder226 on 08-30-200608:22 PM
Message Edited by Spyder226 on 08-30-2006 08:22 PM

Microphone and "What U Hear" can't be enabled at the same time.

Hi,
so this is what I am currently doing: I am streaming li've online game play with the help of Flash Media Li've Encoder. It uses the What U Hear option,? without any problems, so far. Sometimes though I would like to coment on whats currently happening (in the game) with "What U Hear" though enabled, my microphone is disabled and I can not do that. Any voip software then ofc. gives me error messages, that my microphone is not available.
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My OS is Win7 x64
and my soundcard is a creative x-fi xtreme music

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- Hi!
"What u Hear" option doesn't work after I changed the output to SPDIF. The question is, how i could record sound that goes through my audio card (X-Fi Xtreme Gamer).
In windows' recording tab are these options for recording:
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new new VisRe: "What u Hear" does not work (SPDIF)Y I have exactly the same issue. When I originally got my new Vista PC, 'what you hear' wasn't available. It became available when I installed the new driver, as indicated here:http://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=&CatName=Sound+Blaster&s ubCatID=208&subCatName=X-Fi&prodID=4066&prodName=X-Fi+XtremeMusic&bTopTwenty=&VARSET=prodfaq:PRODFAQ_ 4066,VARSET=CategoryID:
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"What U Hear" - X-Fi Extreme Audio on Vi

Hi,
Having Googled on this subject, I think I know what I want. The trouble is I've read so many threads both here and in other forums, I just can't find it! I hope you'll be nice to me as a first-time poster here
I have the X-Fi Extreme Audio Card , am running Vista (32) and need the "What U Hear" function. It appears I need old drivers/software from 2006 to make this work - Can anyone kindly point me to a li've link for these, please?
I have been in contact with Creative Tech Support, but have sort of hit a brick wall
Many thanks in advance for your help.
Message Edited by Jingleman on 04-05-2008 11:11 PM

Dajdu wrote:
Hello,
I have the same problem, I got Windows Vista and as a sound card I have SB X-Fi Xtreme Audio. Everthing was fine until I baught this new headset from SteelSerios. The sound works fine but when I come to the microphone, I cannot record, I cannot be heard in Ventrilo and stuff.
So please Jingleman what have you eqtually done to solve your problem and what driver have you downloaded please.
Thanks In Advance
Dajdu,
I can not comment on SteelSerios, but I totally removed all Creative software, which included the driver. Vista then picked-up my 'X-Fi Extreme Audio' sound card as 'new hardware' and automatically found a suitable Creative driver. After this I updated driver allowing it to check the internet and the working driver is Creative 5.2..68 dated 08/05/2007 (that may be 05/08/2007 to you).
If that doesn't work, try temporarily removing any software you installed relating to SteelSerios
Cheers.

Windows7 64 bit and Audigy 2 choppy sound while recording what you hear

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Creative you are all a bunch of ?$"?%$%" idiots period. You have ALWAYS (till now in my case anyway) had good drivers. Even though Windows 7 has been in RC for ages you (absolutely missed that boat, hell you didn't even get up to try to catch it) cannot be bothered to write drivers that work and your idiotic half cooked attempts at customer service to give your bread and butter (that's right your customers who keep you in business) solid drivers are an absolute joke. YOU CAN KISS MY SHINY METAL HINEY!!!!! (thanks Bender lol). I am going to my onboard drivers. Thanks Creative (the name "creative" is kind of contradiction in itself, you should look up the meaning of the word lol). Oh and I will be advising EVERYONe who thinks of upgrading to Windows7 to avoid Creative hardware.
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