I did discover that my sound effects were coming through my headset because my
sound effects were set to come through my Plantronics headset but I never
changed them to doing that. Changing that back to internal speakers did not
solve my larger problem.
--
Cheryl
May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable to You, Lord,
my rock and my Redeemer.
(Psalm 19:14 HCSB)
On Mar 31, 2017, at 12:35 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I also just discovered when sending the previous message that even though I
have switched back to internal speaker on the Mac my sound effects are coming
through the usb headset which I also still have plugged in and am wearing. I
noticed this because of the wobbly sound of the send sound effect and then I
tested it by arrowing down to the bottom of an email and that sound effect also
came through the usb headset in a rather wobbly manner instead of through the
internal speakers. This doesn't happen with the volume up and down sound which
is a knob on my mechanical keyboard but any alert sounds in terminal such as
backspacing when I am already at the prompt in terminal come through the usb
headset if I have it plugged in.
On Mar 31, 2017, at 12:27 AM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In running the beta, somewhere in between 12.3 and 12.4 I began having usb
audio problems. These first showed up in skype but I find that they also show
up when using usb audio for the system. The sound that you hear when talking
and listening, for example in a skype test, is wobbly chopping sound and you
can hear something that sounds a bit like an idling car when there is silence.
I wanted to record this and put in dropbox for people to hear but when I tried
to record this the sound merely sounded a bit distorted instead of having a
wobbly effect. To try to illustrate, if the word "home" is in a song held on
one note, it is going to sound like ho-o-o-ome. It pretty much makes usb audio,
at least with my Plantronics headset, unusable.
I did some research and found other usb problems in El Capitan and Sierra. For
me this happened in beta somewhere between 12.3 and 12.4. Going back to 12.3
fixed this but going back up to 12.4 betas brought the problem back
immediately. I did report the problem and then withdrew from the beta program.
I hoped that the official 12.4 would fix this but it has not. This was on my
iMac. I also have a Macbook Air and it was not running the beta. It remained
fine on 12.3 but tonight I upgraded to 12.4 and the problem has now moved in
there also. I don't have another usb headset to test this with but if you are
using usb audio I would advise you to be very careful about upgrading to 12.4.
The sound of voiceover isn't as pronounced with this problem as skype and music
listening but there is still some distortion. If you are using skype, other
people will be able to hear the effect so using usb audio, at least through my
Plantronics headset, is useless for others to listen to and speak in
conversation with as it is to me. Both the Macbook Air and the iMac are from
2012 in case this is a factor. I just thought I should warn people to at least
have a backup if you go to 12.4. I know this is not a hardware damage problem
because if I change to booting from a drive that has 12.3 there is no problem.
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