Hello
Recently installed a Buttkicker gamer 2 together with simhub software. I am running with effects for "Gear shift" and "Wheel slip", noticed right away a very pronounced Buzz noise on each gearshift and a long Buzz/Hum noise every time the wheel slip. I assumed it was a ground loop and bought a ground loop isolator, put everything on the same power socket and grounded all my amps to the motherboard ground. But the noise was still there.
Started searching for the "error" and found out that even when i run with the Buttkicker amp disconnected and "everything off", running only simhub and pressing the "test" buttons for effects in shakeit will produce a 'Hum/Buzz white noise sound' in my headphones. (Headaches after 10 minutes of playing)
All ideas/Suggestions on a possible solution is welcome. I want the buttkicker to rumble the rig but without causing white noise in my headphones.
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Setup info:
Motherboard: Asus strix Z370F Gaming
USB->DAC/AMP->Headphones
3,5mm built in soundcard->AMP Buttkicker->Buttkicker
("Voicemeeter audio signal clone")
-Running the headphones on the 3,5mm built in soundcard with splitter to the buttkicker makes no difference, neither does running the headphones solo on the built in soundcard or the USB DAC/AMP.
Hi !
Indeed those sounds are not the best for the brain 😀 , I had to hear them a lot during my testings and no ... It's not good for the feng shui 😀
It looks like a monitoring setting or something similar, look in windows settings in both playback and recording devices settings if sound is not mirrored to your headphones. It could be also In the drivers control panel.Â
I see you use voicemeter it's worth checking it's not occuring here , I had already to troubleshoot similar issues in the past and it was wrong voicemeter settings.
I highly doubt it could be an hardware issue, this is definitely "software" you just need to find which setting is mirroring the sound.
A last clue but I doubt you haven't checked that already, is your headphone sound card properly disabled in shakeit ?Â
As a last resort I would make sure voicemeter is totally disabled and eventually remove and reinstall both headset and shaker sound cards from Windows device manager, hopefully it will reset any bad setting triggering this mirroring.
Let me know if it helped,
Nicolas
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