Monitor problem

Slawomir

Hi,
I solved the problem of controlling the mic from the PC by using an Apollo Universal Audio SPDIF connection. The signal from the Flex is clear with very low latency, and I can use Aether Voice and plugins. The only problem is that the headphones connected to the Flex 8600M don't monitor the signal. Is there a solution to this problem? I can hear the signal with MON enabled when I connect the headphones to the PC and enable the Realtek card in playback.

Erik Carling EI4KF

Yes, a complete pain. Flex use two different audio paths and there is no native option to play audio to both radio headphone jack and PC at the same time.

There are solutions, but you have to be careful about latency. Some Flex users on here might have alternative answers, however what I do is this:

• Turn OFF PC Audio in SmartSDR so the radio jack stays active.
• Connect a cable from the 8600M headphone jack to Channel 1 of a small desktop audio mixer (such as a cheap Maker Hart which is about $60 and available on Amazon) .
• Connect a second cable from your PC's headphone/line-out jack to Channel 2 of the mixer.
• Plug your headphones into the mixer's output jack. You can now manually adjust the volume of both sources independently using physical knobs.
• If I choose not to use PC audio, it is ok because the headphones work. They stay working if I turn PC audio on. There is no latency that I can detect.

Before I did this I had to physically unplug the headphones from the radio and plug them into the computer.

There is also VB-Audio Voicemeeter, a free software solution. It should work, but I had problems probably of my own making. You could try it though.

Slawomir

Hi Eric,
Thank you very much for the advice. I hadn't considered that solution. I'll try to find a small mixer. Listening to the latency on a computer is a bit of a pain. I'm using a Uaudio X4 Thunderbolt interface. It's an advanced design, but it didn't allow the signal from the audio interface to be sent to the PC. I had to route the signal through fiber optic and use a USB/SPDIF adapter on the computer. Now the signal is clear and I can finally use AetherVoice. I don't like VoiceMeter Potato. I uninstalled it and everything works fine.

Best regards,
Slawomir