Windows 10: Windows Audio and sounding like a chipmunk/on helium!

Nope - it didn't! I realised in the middle of the night that I'd left my PC on both last night and the night before as I was archiving material to my NAS. I've just re-booted and tested Skype: the chipmunk lives! *Sad

 

Rats.

It was OK until restarted. Look at what is in startup, could be something there causing it.

 

Obviously the only way to go through startup properly is to disable them all and enable them one by one, re-booting each time. Ugh.

Before I try that - this is what is in my startup. Anything that you can see that I might try turning off just in case?

 

I think the problem is within Skype, not the drivers. Try resetting Skype settings.

Steps:
1. Kill the process Skype.exe using taskmanager
2. Open the Run dialog and enter
%appdata%
and press enter.

You should now get a new Explorer window opened.

3. Find the folder named Skype and rename it to Skype.bak
4. Restart Skype and set it up again.

NOTE! you can always restore your old data from the Skype.bak folder.

 

slicendice - I might agree if the problem was restricted to Skype.

Skype is not in my startup at all. I could go and open something like Audacity and record myself and the result would be the same with no involvement from Skype. It's just that Skype is nearly all I use my microphone for.

 

The symptoms you have been describing are actually "Features" of the "Karaoke" options of my Xonar DG sound card.

Do you have any such similar type options on your Sound driver? or any other sound related driver which are switched ON ?





Although the options are shown in a graphic app display in my example I have known RealTek drivers to have options in quite deeply buried sub- Menus, especially in the "modified" drivers from major PC manufacturers, there is often a switch off all enhancements option which sometimes apply to extra options but not always

 

That startup list is quite big compared to mine.

 

What? Your lists are really long compared to mine, and I should clean mine up too. *chuckle

 

Don't you use your machines for much? *chuckle Add a few apps from Adobe and you'll soon have heaps in there. Add Spotify and iTunes and a few bits of software here and there and it soon mounts up.

Seriously though it does irritate me how many programs think they need to run at startup regardless of whether I use them from one day to the next.

 

Hahhah, I use my machine for a lot of things, but I kill everything that wants to exist in the startup entries. I mostly use portable apps or make them portable and Adobe tools and many apps like iTunes or other "wanna do it all for you"-tools are beasts which I avoid at all cost. *chuckle

Most startups has to do with app optimizations, or update services.

 

LOL, my other machine has 2 startup entries:

1. OneDrive
2. Windows Defender Notifications

*chuckle

 

My computer is used for my home recording studio DAW. DPC latency mon reports no problems.

That is something Mark should run and see if it reports any or what issues.
Resplendence Software - LatencyMon: suitability checker for real-time audio and other tasks

 

I just ran LatencyMon.

 

What do you show in the "Processes" window in Latency Mon. Also let it run for about 5 minutes (maybe longer until it starts doing the speed up).

 

Okey dokey, I've run it for 15 minutes now:

As for

Erm... lots and lots of them. There doesn't seem to be a way of exporting that information though short of doing lots of screen shots.








(there are lots of cscript.exe items - several screen shots missed out...)