Splitting audio channels in Windows 11

[Charagma]

Went to see a possible new client about work this morning and while there we went into his home studio, and he played me a few things, and we spoke about his hardware and other odd and ends.

What I saw I cannot explain ............

He has a speaker setup I do not know how he does it. He has a total of 8 speakers. (4 sets) Different sizes. Left channel consists of 1 HF and 1 MR speaker. Using HF & MR (High Frequency and MR Medium range) just for ease of typing. Right hand channel is the same, again 1HF and 1 MR. HF is equalized (Equalizer in his windows but missed software name) to only play HF and again MR is equalized to play just MR (4 separate channels on 1 Equalizer). Then he has two Bass Speakers in mono (1 mixed channel L&R combined). Again, equalized to only Bass. That gives me 5 Channels, but I only saw 1 Audio jack in use on his pc and no other hardware that I could say id doing it. Assuming the others are Bluetooth. On top of this he has a Bluetooth headset that plays all frequencies that he can just add if he wants to listen to something intently.

I am counting 6 separate channels now and all on 1 equalizer.

I checked my windows and as soon as I connect a second Bluetooth audio device while one is connected the first switches off and also cannot listen to my wired headset while Bluetooth is connected. I am assuming he is using ASIO (Some form of it) since I saw a Steinberg folder on his desktop. This can change my realism outlook (Immersive) on playback completely.

How does he do this?

 

[Colif]

Went to see a possible new client about work this morning and while there we went into his home studio, and he played me a few things, and we spoke about his hardware and other odd and ends.

What I saw I cannot explain ............

He has a speaker setup I do not know how he does it. He has a total of 8 speakers. (4 sets) Different sizes. Left channel consists of 1 HF and 1 MR speaker. Using HF & MR (High Frequency and MR Medium range) just for ease of typing. Right hand channel is the same, again 1HF and 1 MR. HF is equalized (Equalizer in his windows but missed software name) to only play HF and again MR is equalized to play just MR (4 separate channels on 1 Equalizer). Then he has two Bass Speakers in mono (1 mixed channel L&R combined). Again, equalized to only Bass. That gives me 5 Channels, but I only saw 1 Audio jack in use on his pc and no other hardware that I could say id doing it. Assuming the others are Bluetooth. On top of this he has a Bluetooth headset that plays all frequencies that he can just add if he wants to listen to something intently.

I am counting 6 separate channels now and all on 1 equalizer.

I checked my windows and as soon as I connect a second Bluetooth audio device while one is connected the first switches off and also cannot listen to my wired headset while Bluetooth is connected. I am assuming he is using ASIO (Some form of it) since I saw a Steinberg folder on his desktop. This can change my realism outlook (Immersive) on playback completely.

How does he do this?

Maybe he uses something like Voicemeeter that can control Bluetooth and wired speakers at same time. That would be only way if there are only 4 speakers physically connected to PC.

 

[Charagma]

Maybe he uses something like Voicemeeter that can control Bluetooth and wired speakers at same time. That would be only way if there are only 4 speakers physically connected to PC.

I will have a look at it thank you Colif. Have however after hours of stuggle gotten 2 audio devices to connect to Windows (via Bluetooth) with my wired headset still plugged in and work. I must now just figure out how to split the channels. Will have a look maybe voicemeeter is the answer to that.

 

[Colif]

Or he had these with their crossover box, but I feel you would have mentioned it

 

[Charagma]

Or he had these with their crossover box, but I feel you would have mentioned it

Nope would have seen those if he had it. LOL.

I see where they are coming from and what they have done. Do not understand the reasoning on the bass tube though.

I am going on visual here so maybe you have more in detail information on it.

Starting with a nautilus shape (Small going out bigger spiralling). When your input (Say wind as an example) enters at the larger side, it will speed up and exit at the smaller side say around 13 times (Estimate speed) faster at the smaller end. Starting at small will exit 13 times slower at the larger side. Speed will be diameter and shrink ratio's dependent.

Keeping the nautilus shape in mind we now take that and apply it to audio. In their configuration the audio on the larger entry will increase in speed (Speaker breathing towards the rear). Without a breather (Escape hole), the audio will now back up into the tube back towards the speaker (return to origin) and start generating Slowed reverse audio waves. The two waves (new wave and slowed returning wave) will now start fighting for space, which will result in some form of delayed latency. Remember original input wave left the speaker, sped up to a certain velocity and then got slowed down on the way back.

I do not see a "breather" on the bass tube which made me think of what it would do to the frequencies inside the tube.


Am I missing something or is my thought on this incorrect?

Looks great. I think I have seen a pair of white ones in a movie or something before. The "shape" rings a bell somewhere so must have seen it somewhere before but have my reservations on the actual audio quality of it.

Love the idea of 15Hz......would have a contrabass shaking a room in no time.

 

[Charagma]

Maybe he uses something like Voicemeeter that can control Bluetooth and wired speakers at same time. That would be only way if there are only 4 speakers physically connected to PC.

Had a look at the specification on this. I would say it is pretty much exact opposite of what he had. This specific one has multiple inputs going to 2 outputs. This I can pretty much so on the sound mixer in Cubase (where I can play with a huge number of inputs. My little PC can run 54 Input channels before dying on me due to not being able to handle the processing).

Simply Having my main out running through a filter/compressor and then the second will be for a monitoring headset. This is pretty much what ASIO does just with a more user-friendly GUI.

I am more looking into the part that can accept various outputs say speakers A,B,C,D,E with a singular input. E.g. 4 Bluetooth audio devices with a Single hard wired audio device where I will be able to apply filters/compressors to each output respectively.