Voices and music are too high pitched

jlangtry · 06-11-2008, 08:38 PM

All the sounds and music coming from my computer speakers are high pitched, even live radio. Everyone sounds like elves. Has anyone heard of this ? Any assistance greatly appreciated By the way when I synchronize to my Ipod, it sounds normal again.

vicguaj · 06-16-2008, 11:44 AM

I am new to this whole concept so please bear with me. I too am having speaker problems on my Win XP, SP2. It seems that I have a conflict between Realtek HD and the Windows controls??? I'm sure that you are not supposed to have to sinc the two up to fix the problem (Even though I tried.) Do you have more than just the Windows volume control too? I don't know which to use. There is an update ready for the Realtek but that bombed when I tried it and took the sound away from my WMP, but left beautiful sound using their testing of volume???

HELP.

**af3** · 06-18-2008, 01:32 PM

It sounds as if someone played a joke on you and messed with your Realtek audio control panel. The Realtek drivers for whatever reason has built-in reverb effects and a pitch bender built in. (In most cases from my experiences with AC'97 and the HD chips)

I guess the engineers got bored and started adding effects to the driver. If you zero out the pitch bender your audio should sound normal once again. Good luck!

luckliesinheart · 08-06-2008, 04:56 AM

try this, if you have realtek audio, look at the karaoke thing in effects, and switch it to o if it is anything other than that

06-11-2008, 08:38 PM	#1 (permalink)
jlangtry Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 OS: xp	Voices and music are too high pitched All the sounds and music coming from my computer speakers are high pitched, even live radio. Everyone sounds like elves. Has anyone heard of this ? Any assistance greatly appreciated By the way when I synchronize to my Ipod, it sounds normal again.

06-16-2008, 11:44 AM	#2 (permalink)
vicguaj Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1 OS: Win XP SP2	Re: Voices and music are too high pitched I am new to this whole concept so please bear with me. I too am having speaker problems on my Win XP, SP2. It seems that I have a conflict between Realtek HD and the Windows controls??? I'm sure that you are not supposed to have to sinc the two up to fix the problem (Even though I tried.) Do you have more than just the Windows volume control too? I don't know which to use. There is an update ready for the Realtek but that bombed when I tried it and took the sound away from my WMP, but left beautiful sound using their testing of volume??? HELP.

06-18-2008, 01:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
af3 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: USA Posts: 1,173 OS: XP32, the gaming OS. My System	Re: Voices and music are too high pitched It sounds as if someone played a joke on you and messed with your Realtek audio control panel. The Realtek drivers for whatever reason has built-in reverb effects and a pitch bender built in. (In most cases from my experiences with AC'97 and the HD chips) I guess the engineers got bored and started adding effects to the driver. If you zero out the pitch bender your audio should sound normal once again. Good luck! Last edited by af3; 06-18-2008 at 01:35 PM.

08-06-2008, 04:56 AM	#4 (permalink)
luckliesinheart Registered User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1 OS: vista	Re: Voices and music are too high pitched try this, if you have realtek audio, look at the karaoke thing in effects, and switch it to o if it is anything other than that