What on earth is going on with the newest Realtek audio drivers? When watching Netflix on the laptop speakers its a nice improvement - but when I plug in my headphones to produce, all of my tracks which I previously spent hours on getting the levels and frequencies all correct, now just sound like an absolutely distorted mess.
Producing music is the main thing I use my laptop for! How can I rollback the driver update, or remove this unholy handshake with level of sound? Go to Solution. I noticed that the audio got really bad after the latest update, as well. Installing the older Realtek drivers Version 6. View solution in original post. So I found the source of the problem myself. When the driver updates I guess it also changed all the settings in this program for some reason, which added a massive bass boost, and a rather harsh compressor to all audio coming through the system.
This was fixable by opening the program and turning down the dials 'Boost', 'Details', and 'Width'. Nope, I take that back. Further listening after removing this setting is showing a still pretty clear difference in dynamics.
The bass is no longer boosted but the frequency response seems like just a complete and utter mess. And there is no response from any of the team. Might be time to just push for a refund and go to a new manufacturer. Edit: OK. So using a tone tester and side by side comparisons across multiple devices with high quality audio formats I've pinpointed significant distortion on any sound under Hz.
Whenever I have sound problems, I download the driver I want to use. Then I go offline and use the Device Manager to uninstall the sound device and check the box to uninstall all drivers. I may even uninstall again if it pops up another Realtek device, but you may be able to reboot then install the downloaded driver.
The Waves user interface has presets for each type of device connected. You may be able to create your own profile for each device and save so when it asks what was plugged in, it will default to that preset. If you headset is a Bluetooth version, that is a little different than a wired device. Adjustments may have to be made in other places and the Spatial Sound option may be involved.
I spent all day trying to figure out why after some updates sound was distorted. Reinstalled countless drivers, looked in google and youtube for help, but then Wild idea appeared after reading this thread. Disabled Waves stupid software and everything went back to normal.
Ugh Dell. After my Dell XPS updated the driver and messed with my sound levels without me realising, I proceeded to do a week of video work, adjusting all the sound levels to fit the messed up MaxxAudioPro settings that come with the driver update. So frustrating Dell! The solution seems to be to either roll back the driver, or in the MaxxAudioPro interface, hit the little toggle in the top left and that will disable the horrible EQ it applies.
I just ran into this issue on my new XPS Resetting to the aforementioned A3 driver worked like a charm. It also fixed the problem of having to start my computer with my headphones plugged in for my computer to recognize them.
Clearly someone who worked on the Realtek drivers since is really bad at their job. Thanks to those who contributed to this forum already! Browse Community. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type.
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