Using FX Sound with Line-in or What you hear

[Stephen]

I am having problems in applying the effects to sound coming from my Line-In input on my Creative Audigy Rx input. I have chosen Line-in and What U hear from Win11. The windows sound control panel shows the input as active and I can hear it, however
FX Sound ignores this input. Basically I watch movies and connect the sound to my PC line-in

[doolhoofd]

Hi Stephen,

There’s a list bannered and pinned to the top of the forum with the most common tips and suggestions, like disabling Exclusive Mode, Hardware Acceleration (in the Advanced tab) as well as all Enhancements, for all audio devices.

If you haven’t done so yet, try setting the FxSound Speakers device as the Default Device, and your desired output device as the Default Communication Device.

For troubleshooting purposes, it’s always helpful to mention which version of FxSound you are running. This is shown in the Help tab of the Settings. A “Preferred Output Device” feature was recently added to the General tab in v1.1.26.0 (the text in blue is a quick one-click link to the explanation on that), while the versions before that had an “Automatically switch to newly connected output device” feature. Make sure to check those settings as well.

You can update anytime from the Help tab, by clicking the “Check for updates” button, and you can always find the most recent update on fxsound.com.

Following the advice below, and sharing the results obtained from running the fxdiag.exe diagnostic tool through command prompt, should be useful for your issue as well:

@bvijay

If the [device] is connected and recognized by Windows, then FxSound should not have any problem in making it available to get selected.
Can you please check if the [device] is listed in
Settings > System > Sound > All sound devices

Also please confirm if your [device] output format is not 1 channel.

You can also run our diagnostic tool fxdiag.exe from command line to confirm if the [device] is active and if it supports 2 channel audio.

[Stephen]

FX Sound is working fine, my only issue is that the input coming from Line-In of my Audigy RX is not being amplified. FX Sound version is 1.1.27.0. The line-in works with other programs such as Windows 11 Sound recorder. FX Sound is using the Audigy RX fine except for its Line-in. Yes I tried disabling Exclusive Mode. sound card is this: Sound Blaster Audigy Rx - Sound Blaster - Creative Labs (United States)
p.s. sound from line-in doesnt even show on the Visualizer

[bvijay]

Hi Stephen,
FxSound can processes audio output streams from applications to playback devices. But it is not designed to process audio input from line-in.

[Stephen]

Many thanks for your reply.