

When you watch the recording, you're hearing the bass boost twice. It sounds like your audio card has some sort of bass boost activated, which is being recorded along with your gameplay. Using the right settings, any digital audio source, such as the audio output from a game, can be captured by any audio card without alterations, assuming the audio card is set to use the same or higher sample rate than what you're trying to record. OP, your audio card records audio digitally. No amount of post processing can fix that. Plus he mentioned that the recording itself sounds distorted. That's a band-aid fix, and you can easily ruin the quality of the audio by using an equalizer without understanding how to use one and how harmonics work. Anyone know where else I might find something to lower the bass during recordings? Or if I should really be using a different sound card/recording program altogether lol. I've experimented with Stereo Mix's Levels tab and the audio quality under Advanced, but neither of those made any difference. From my online searches, I've seen people suggest going to the Enhancements tab under Properties to turn off Bass Boost and such, but that tab is nowhere to be found (for reference, it's not available for Playback Devices either). When I right-click the speaker icon on my desktop and select Recording Devices, Stereo Mix is the only device that's active. I suspect that there's some setting, or perhaps some recording feedback somewhere, that's boosting the bass during the recording process itself, but I have no idea what it would be or where to search for it. The sound plays just fine when running the games themselves - this only shows up after recording them. I'm using Windows 8.1 with an IDT High Definition Audio CODEC. So I'm getting back to recording Touhou videos with Fraps, but all of a sudden the recordings seems to have really jacked up bass, which is distorting the sound quite noticeably.
