Distorted center/bass

niteflite727

Hi all,

I want to use my audigy2ZS as a 3 * stereo output for a whole house audio system. I've been reading this forum on how to route your wave0/1 and so on to the outputs of the card. Everything works fine except that my center/bass output on the card is distorted. The other outputs work fine and can be controlled individually. I can also use the center/bass output but the sound is awefull. Any ideas on this? I hope it's not the card because when I reroute wave3/4 to the center/bass the problem is still there.

Marco

Russ

You want 3 independant stereo outputs or 3 outputs each with the same stereo signal?

Russ

The reason I ask, is because it sounds like you want 3 stereo outputs with the same signal, in which case you do not need to change the routing. You would simply use the default setup, and connect the outputs of the timbre plugin to all 3 (front/rear/center on epilog) outputs (replacing the current connections), and you would set Surrounder to whichever 2.0 setting you prefer.

niteflite727

Hi Russ

I want to be able to play 3 different songs in 3 different rooms. So I need 3 independant stereo outputs. I can do this with J.River media center. I can already do this with my setup but there is one output, the center/bass, that gives me a signal that is so bad that I can barely listen to it. I wonder if I did something wrong. I simply connected wave4/5 to the front L/R, the wave6/7 to the rear L/R and the wave8/9 to the center/bass. But only the center/bass gives me the distorted signal even if I route the wave4/5 to it, it still gives the distorted signal on the output. So my only guess would be that the card is malfunctioning but I just want to know if somebody ever had the same experience.

Marco

Russ

Ok, then it sounds like you are doing it correctly.

What happens if you send the same signal to all 3 pairs of speakers at the same time (from the same bus)?

Have you tried swapping the speakers themselves, to be sure that the issue is not with the speakers/speaker wires, etc?

TravelRec.

Try to connect a headphone directly on the card´s output, check whether the dry signal is distorted or not. Maybe you feed a too high level to your connected amplifier. Check in the DSP the outgoing level with a peak plugin. I would recommend, you use the new ProFX package, that gives you a higher flexibility for your task. Check the DSP-forum for ProFX (works on 3538 only).