# How can I stop FX dominating my settings?

**URL:** <https://forum.fxsound.com/t/how-can-i-stop-fx-dominating-my-settings/5998>\
**Category:** Get Help\
**Created:** [September 13, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.fxsound.com/t/how-can-i-stop-fx-dominating-my-settings/5998 "2025-09-13T13:41:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Whobiggs](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fxsound.com/whobiggs/32/2707_2.png) [@Whobiggs](https://forum.fxsound.com/u/Whobiggs)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2025, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.fxsound.com/t/how-can-i-stop-fx-dominating-my-settings/5998/1 "2025-09-13T13:41:54Z")

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When I plug my headphones in the sound still comes through FX, if I try to click back on the normal speaker setting it bounces back to FX. The exact same happens with my headphones, I cannot click on the. How do I decide instead of FX taking over? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![james](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fxsound.com/james/32/2294_2.png) [@james](https://forum.fxsound.com/u/james)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.fxsound.com/t/how-can-i-stop-fx-dominating-my-settings/5998/2 "2025-09-15T17:22:19Z")

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Apologies. FxSound doesn’t work unless it is the selected playback device. So we automatically revert FxSound to the playback device in Windows and adjust the playback device selected in FxSound to the one that was selected in Windows. If you want to not use FxSound, please quit FxSound.

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**Author:** ![Whobiggs](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/forum.fxsound.com/whobiggs/32/2707_2.png) [@Whobiggs](https://forum.fxsound.com/u/Whobiggs)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 6:54am UTC](https://forum.fxsound.com/t/how-can-i-stop-fx-dominating-my-settings/5998/3 "2025-09-16T06:54:35Z")

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Hi James

i should have phrased that better, I don’t want to quit, I want to use it on headphones too but I cannot! The headphones don’t seem to work since I installed it.

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**Author:** ![Antman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Antman](https://forum.fxsound.com/u/Antman)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://forum.fxsound.com/t/how-can-i-stop-fx-dominating-my-settings/5998/4 "2025-09-16T23:31:59Z")

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This reply applies to my first interpretation of your question.

1. Right click the systray icon and choose [Turn off]  
You are now listening to ‘straight audio’ while FXsound is still active.

Please clarify - “headphones don’t seem to work”

Without FXsound, do your headphones work?  
Are your headphones bluetooth?

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**Author:** ![strvger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@strvger](https://forum.fxsound.com/u/strvger)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2025, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.fxsound.com/t/how-can-i-stop-fx-dominating-my-settings/5998/5 "2025-09-19T23:44:17Z")

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i had similar issues with FX not recognizing speakers or headphones but to some nebulous FX Speaker(??). i was unable to change or even turn off the “FX speaker”. after nearly a month of messing with it, going around and around with all the ‘fixes’ i just completely uninstalled FXsound and was done with it!! absolutely NO regrets!!

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**Author:** ![Antman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Antman](https://forum.fxsound.com/u/Antman)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2025, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.fxsound.com/t/how-can-i-stop-fx-dominating-my-settings/5998/6 "2025-09-20T02:41:43Z")

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Yet you remain.