Looping echo with Beach Turtle under WinXP please help.

[Alx]

I've just replaced my SB Live with Santa Cruz Turtle Beach and everything works beautifully except TS. Voice recording programs all seem to work fine, roger wilco works fine, but when I try loopback test in either TS 1.xx or TS 2 (the latest) I say a word and I get back a repeating echo that progressively corodes until it sounds like a robot voice. Does anyone have an idea of what this might be caused by?

Thank you in advance.

[Cstar_maxim]

check your recording mixed settings and make sure Mic is the only one selected. do not select "what you hear"

[Alx]

I'm gonna sound very stupid and I've seen it mentioned in other posts here, but what is the "what you hear" part? I do have a mic selected and I have it muted in the mixer as well.

[Cstar_maxim]

"What you hear" is a selection that some sound cards mixers allow you to select as an input and sometimes the drivers/software install even sets this as the default setting for the recorder mixer. Its a common support question answered

[Griffon]

Originally posted by Alx
I've just replaced my SB Live with Santa Cruz Turtle Beach and everything works beautifully except TS. Voice recording programs all seem to work fine, roger wilco works fine, but when I try loopback test in either TS 1.xx or TS 2 (the latest) I say a word and I get back a repeating echo that progressively corodes until it sounds like a robot voice. Does anyone have an idea of what this might be caused by?

Thank you in advance.

I found the cure for me was to un-install the Santa Cruz control panel. The problem is now mostly gone though every once in a while somebody says they hear it for a second. I don't have the problem in Gave Voice though so I suspect Team speak and the Santa Cruz drivers are interacting in some screwy fashion (checked all other settings everything certainly pretended to be correct).

[Judas]

As far as i know there is a hardware flaw in the SantaCruz TurtleBeach soundcard. Sounds are "leaking" to the mic. This has been confirmed by various sources and hardware guides.

The only thing you can do is to fiddle with your mixer settings (or SantaCruz controll pannel). What helped in my case was to activate mic boost and set the record level of the mic very low. The settings depend on your mic though. Try to keep the record level as low as possible and the echo will be reduced till you only hear it very faintly and only in certain unlucky cases.

Additionaly to the hardware problem there is a difference in sound handling from TS 1.5 to TS 2.0. Finding the correct settings for TS 1.5 seemed to be easier than it is for TS2.0. Most probably it has something to do with the voice normalisation used in TS2.0 but as far as i am aware this might be changed in future releases.