Microphone play's back output audio

Hello all,

I have been a long time reader here in toms hardware, and its time for me to post,due to being baffled at what is going on.

I am running on Windows Vista Home Premieum 64bit with a Sound Blaster Audigy SE. I have been running the card fine for about a year, until I had switched over to a new ventrilo server the problem had occured.

The problem I am having is when using my microphone in ventrilo, my microphone is some how picking up any output audio that my headset is receiving, thus stereo mixing any audio that is coming from my computer weather it is music or games, back into my microphone when using it in ventrilo.

I dont understand how my microphone is some how stereo mixing any output audio, but I know for a fact this shouldnt be happening. I use ventrilo everyday, because its a crucial part to my gaming, yet I have had to stop because I can not find out what is causing my microphone to pick and transmit any output audio.

Now I am sure some may think its a virus, or driver issue, but I can assure you it is not. I have reformatted my computer 2 times and the problem still occurs, I have updated my sound blaster audigy SE to its current driver which is 1.4.77 and it is still occuring. I have no idea what is going on, but I am begining to believe their is somthing within my windows registry that is enabling my microphone to pick up all output audio and stereo mix it when using my microphone in ventrilo.

I use a headset mic and have also muted my mic in the speakers tab. If anyone out there could help me find a solution to how/why my microphone is picking up output audio and stereo mixing it, I would be greatly thankful. Hopefully someone with the knowledge of knowing how to edit also window sound registry's would be a great thing as well, because I strongly believe that their is a line of code within the Vista registry that is not allowing my mic to be either muted when picking up any output audio or thier is some audio registry that is using my microphone to stereo mix when in use.

Thanks,
levsummers

I actually have and the problem still persists, not sure what to do at this point = / hopefully others out there will be able to give some other suggestions. Also my "what you hear" feature is disabled, so its somthing within the registry I believe that is mixing up the signals

Well I took your advice and ended up buying a usb mic, but the problem is still there, not sure why this is happening

grrr that didn't help me. I went to the "recording input" button in vent. Found the options/property area for both line in and microphone, and neither one has anything in there about "stereo MIX"

like the OP, I too am using Vent for gaming and Vista64.

OK, I'll try to explain this again because nothing anyone suggests here comes close to any option I actually have, including the methods of getting to such options...

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Here is what I look at. I don't have a "Volume Control" with Vista, I have a "Volume Mixer" which doesn't handle options. Going the blue path from the picture leads nowhere. I'll try the pink path and go to my recording options, I have options for all recording devices (all options the same between them). The only tab of consequence is "advanced" which has nothing like an option for "Stereo Mix." All the "general" tab lets me do is change the device name, all the "levels" tab does is allow the volume to be changed.

Anyone who is familiar with Vista (or if my version is different, Vista Ultimate 64) and have any idea where I can go from here, please give me a hand.


PS, don't bother suggesting looking into the "Configure" Option from the "Sound" window. It only will lead to the Control Panel Speech Recognition options.