Why is the microphone control so weird on Windows?
RAT-3.0.x has a bug in the device control settings which means that it sometimes controls the wrong audio channel. This is fixed in RAT-4.0.x and later. If you have trouble with earlier versions of RAT, you can adjust the gain via the Windows audio control panel. By double-clicking on the yellow loudspeaker icon in the tray: at the right hand end of the task-bar, a panel called Volume Control appears: In the context of RAT, this handles the “received” audio, via the “Wave” section and mixed into the main “volume control” at the left. The “line-in” here must be muted and/or slid to minimum, otherwise the microphone is being mixed into the loudspeakers with the obvious consequences. The less obvious part of this is that if you take Options/Properties you can click on the “recording” button and then the panel will turn into a Recording Control: In the context of the RAT this is the “transmit” section, and you could inject CD Audio, or MIDI sound from the Mixer, into the transmitted stream
RAT-3.0.x has a bug in the device control settings which means that it sometimes controls the wrong audio channel. This is fixed in RAT-4.0.x and later. If you have trouble with earlier versions of RAT, you can adjust the gain via the Windows audio control panel. By double-clicking on the yellow loudspeaker icon in the tray: http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/rat/images/tray.gif at the right hand end of the task-bar, a panel called Volume Control appears: http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/multimedia/software/rat/images/volcon.gif In the context of RAT, this handles the “received” audio, via the “Wave” section and mixed into the main “volume control” at the left. The “line-in” here must be muted and/or slid to minimum, otherwise the microphone is being mixed into the loudspeakers with the obvious consequences. The less obvious part of this is that if you take Options/Properties you can click on the “recording” button and then the panel will turn into a Recording Control: http:/
