[CLUE-Tech] Sound card/speaker "feedback" problem

[Kevin Cullis]

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > When my sound is turned all of the way up, I get feedback through my
> > speakers, even when I adjust some of the controls.  Any ideas?
> 
> Don't turn it all the way up... :)

It's not!!!!!!!  ;-)

> 
> Seriously, though... are you sure it's feedback and not something
> else? Do you have a sound input source, like a microphone, connected
> at all? Actual feedback happens when sound is emitted through the
> speakers, sent through a microphone, amplified and creates a loop.
> So if you have a microphone connected to the computer, that's might
> be what's happening if you have the microphone/line-in on.

No, nothing else connected at all!!

> 
> If it's just a loud hissing/buzzing noise, that's just the speakers
> amplifying the signal noise. (Note, I'm not an audio engineer, so
> that's probably not the correct technical term.)

This is what it sounds like, a humming/hissing noise. I've turned down
the speaker sound and it helps, but I was wondering if there is
something else I should consider to help out.

Thanks.

Kevin