Hello, I recently came back to Roon, and even before, Roon has had this problem.
I don’t like using the exclusive mode, meaning I don’t like selecting my dac, and allowing it to bypass Windows audio. The reason why is because I work from home, so I will need to take calls, and in order to take calls, I need to be able to hear when someone is calling via Windows Audio.
Basically, putting it in exclusive mode does exactly that, and I have other things to do with my audio.
With that being said, all should be fine and dandy using the default “System output”, and it is, except for one thing. Anything I do, I cannot get this terrible and annoying whistling or whining noise whenever bass plays.
It seems like the bass is causing a terrible whistle feedback, and nothing I do fixes it.
I really don’t want to hear “Windows Audio bad” because Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, YT Music, Amazon Music, and Deezer do NOT have this problem, and its going thru my windows audio. I repeat, all of the other music players do NOT have a terrible whistling noise when the bass plays.
I have seen a few topics on this already but it seems people have their own solutions to it, and it hasn’t worked for me.
Someone brought up something about “OS mixer” But I can’t find any setting to change that, unless I select my specific device and listen exclusively, which I dont want to do. I simply want Roon to sound normal, not good. Just normal.
Hey! Im not 100% sure what you mean, but I think I get what you want. And I am here to show you all you want.
I forgot to mention, but I use VoiceMeeter Potato, which allows me to use multiple devices at once.
(I ensured VoiceMeeter was not the cause of my issue, as after restart and not
opening Voicemeeter, Roon has the same problem under system output.)
@Alessandro_Andromida for now I am moving this to hte Tinkering categoy as your use of a software-based virtual interface on your Roon Server PC is not a typical configuration. If this requires Roon Support staff to comment, we can move it back to the Support category.
Thanks!
So, as per the photo you sent, it shows being 48khz on my VoiceMeeter. It was also set to 24 bit 48000 in Windows settings. I changed Windows settings format to 44.1 and it now works! I didnt even have to change voiceMeeters preferred Sample Rate. It was simply Windows Formatting. I appreciate your help, and consider this case closed!
I’m sorry sir, that is not what is happening. I have a second PC as my Roon Server, and Voicemeeter has nothing to do with the whistling noise that has been happening for over 2 years. I just got into VoiceMeeter about 6 months back, and I had already stopped using Roon prior for this issue.
So, in conclusion,
My roon core is not a part of the PC running VoiceMeeter,
VoiceMeeter is not the causation or culprit of this, and I would like a staff member to take a look here.
Hey Im sorry actually, That didnt work for me. The solution didnt work and I am still getting feedback. I think its a bit lesser now, but I am still getting artificial feedback using System Output on Roon.
This was my fix. I had to make sure everything converted to 48kz. I cant do 44.1 for some reason, but now It actually is 1:1 exactly as clean as I want. I think I was hearing 44.1 on 48Khz and that was the issue the whole time.
