High Pitched Voices

[Echy]

Hi

I am helping someone who has a problem with the sound on their computer.

The computer is a P4 3.6 GHz, XP Pro - fully patched/updated, 1 GB
RAM, 161 out of 200 GB HDD free, It has Realtek AC97 audio and
Unimodem half duplex audio device. Has up-to-date and regularly run
Nortons, Ad-aware, Spybot S & D, CCleaner, SpywareBlaster, cwshredder
and Windows Defender.

There is sound for web sites and for CD/DVD playback. However the
voices, either singing or talking, sound "wrong" - too high pitched.
e.g. playing a Billy Joel CD Billy sound pre-pubescent but the music
sounds fine. Same playing a video clip off an internet site. The news
presenter looks 45 y.o. but sounds 14 y.o.. All have the correct
speed but the wrong pitch ??

I have tried a variety of options in Realtek where you can choose e.g.
a hall, cave, stone floor, sewer pipe (??) etc but the voice pitch
stays the same.

Cannot work it out. Any help appreciated.

Echy
Melbourne, Australia

 

[Guest]

Sounds like Its your sound card settings .

Disable all effects one at a time to see which one it is. If all else fails
you can (assuming your friend has the install CD) uninstall and reinstall the
soundcard device.
Could be a conflict with your BIOS embedded sound.

Sorry I cant offer you more


Brandon Dub., TO canada, Shell ''explorer''

 

[Phil Weldon]

'Echy' wrote, in part:
| There is sound for web sites and for CD/DVD playback. However the
| voices, either singing or talking, sound "wrong" - too high pitched.
_____

Very likely there are special effects that can be selected for the audio.
There should be a list of options labeled 'FX' or 'Special Effects' that can
be set to change voice pitch; look for "Karaoke" or "Male to Female" or
"Chipmunk" FX. If the Realtek AC97 audio follows the model of Creative, you
have checked the 'Env' (for Envelope) list which is mainly for simulating a
listening environment, but the the 'FX' ( for special Effects') list whis is
for changing the content. I can't think of any other cause for what you are
hearing, other than a helium leak B>)

Phil Weldon

| Hi
|
| I am helping someone who has a problem with the sound on their computer.
|
| The computer is a P4 3.6 GHz, XP Pro - fully patched/updated, 1 GB
| RAM, 161 out of 200 GB HDD free, It has Realtek AC97 audio and
| Unimodem half duplex audio device. Has up-to-date and regularly run
| Nortons, Ad-aware, Spybot S & D, CCleaner, SpywareBlaster, cwshredder
| and Windows Defender.
|
| There is sound for web sites and for CD/DVD playback. However the
| voices, either singing or talking, sound "wrong" - too high pitched.
| e.g. playing a Billy Joel CD Billy sound pre-pubescent but the music
| sounds fine. Same playing a video clip off an internet site. The news
| presenter looks 45 y.o. but sounds 14 y.o.. All have the correct
| speed but the wrong pitch ??
|
| I have tried a variety of options in Realtek where you can choose e.g.
| a hall, cave, stone floor, sewer pipe (??) etc but the voice pitch
| stays the same.
|
| Cannot work it out. Any help appreciated.
|
| Echy
| Melbourne, Australia

 

[kenny]

Fascinating

Perhaps it is some kind of a time warp effect, not altering reality, but
shifting the time in which things happened?

Why change it? Billy Joel would sound nice when he was younger! lol

Try it on a jackson 5 album when Michael was 5.. see if he goes "goo gaa ga"
like a baby ;-)

 

[Echy]

Fascinating

Perhaps it is some kind of a time warp effect, not altering reality, but
shifting the time in which things happened?

Why change it? Billy Joel would sound nice when he was younger! lol

Try it on a jackson 5 album when Michael was 5.. see if he goes "goo gaa ga"
like a baby ;-)

On this computer Alvin and the Chipmunks sound like Michael Jackson!