I have an issue where I use ROG Audio Wizard in order to enhance the sound through my headphones, and for some unfortunate reason when I record videos, the audio in my video is recorded with those enhancements baked into the audio. When I listen to the video on playback, my audio enhancements are enhancing the already-enhanced audio of the video, which makes the bass get doubled and it just becomes a giant mess.

How can I continue to hear my enhanced audio, but force Bandicam to record the raw audio instead? I tried turning the audio enhancements off and recording, and when I played it back, it sounded like normal when I turned my enhancements back on to listen to the basic video. How am I supposed to go about this? Thanks

Hello shadowpersonified,

Please uncheck "Listen to this device" under the Listen tab and record again.


Thank you.

Hi, thanks for the suggestion but sadly it's already unchecked. I had Microphone set to Recording and then I changed and set Stereo Mix to the default recording. Both have Listen unchecked and both caused the audio to have stacked bass. Might there be any other things I may try?

Hello shadowpersonified,

Could you please attach screenshots of your Bandicam and Windows settings?

Thank you.

Hi, I hope this picture will be enough. I just cropped all the small windows of the settings of the recording devices and bandicam audio settings.

Hello shadowpersonified,

I'm having the same "issue", though this is actually not an issue.

You see, Bandicam (just as any other software, capable of recording audio) just records whatever is sent on the buffer that belongs to your selected audio device (in this case Stereo Mix), which is also what you hear.

Therefor it is no wonder Bandicam records your bass-boost, because that's kind of Bandicam's job...

You can also try different audio recording software and you will find yourself with the same result (try Audacity for example).

There's an easy fix though, disable your audio enhancements whilst recording. Don't worry your ears will survive it, I've tried.

I hope I was able to help,
best regards,
--Zuzu_Typ--

Hi. I've disabled the enhancements before, I recorded a segment and then played it back (with my audio enhancements back on) and the sound was normal. I was really hoping I would be able to record sounds normally while keeping sounds as the way I prefer to hear them.

When I play with no audio enhancements on my headphones, it is very hard to hear things in games (for example, the game I was trying to record is Dead By Daylight. When playing the antagonist, you're on the lookout to find your opponents any way you can, and noise is one key way to find someone... When I turned the audio to default just to record, I couldn't hear as well as I could with them on, which generally makes the gameplay recording less of what it should be...

There's really no way around this at all? While defaulting the audio is an answer, it makes recording a giant pain because I'll have to put up with bad-sounding audio and will actually be at a disadvantage, all for the sake of recording a clip. That doesn't seem right or fair to me. So for everyone that records gameplay with headphones on, they've *all* defaulted their audio to bare-bones basic simply to record their clips? No workarounds?

*Edit: To clarify: there's no way to separate what I hear from what is recorded?

Hello shadowpersonified,

I'm having the same "issue", though this is actually not an issue.

You see, Bandicam (just as any other software, capable of recording audio) just records whatever is sent on the buffer that belongs to your selected audio device (in this case Stereo Mix), which is also what you hear.

Therefor it is no wonder Bandicam records your bass-boost, because that's kind of Bandicam's job...

You can also try different audio recording software and you will find yourself with the same result (try Audacity for example).

There's an easy fix though, disable your audio enhancements whilst recording. Don't worry your ears will survive it, I've tried.

I hope I was able to help,
best regards,
--Zuzu_Typ--

Ok well in the end, I followed your advice... I was using a program (that came with my sound driver) called Waves MaxxAudio or something like that. It was able to alter the sounds, and I used it to change the bass/treble and I had come to rely heavily on those adjustments for music and gameplay and just all audio I listened to.

Going with your advice, I disabled it, and went back to the flat default audio... Then I went to my "Speaker" Playback settings and went into the Enhancements there and adjusted the Equalizer. In there, I made a custom setting and adjusted the bars until I got a sound that was as close as possible to what I had created in the MaxxAudio software. It will take a small amount of adjustment but I can get behind how it sounds with just the equalizer settings and no Maxx. The good news is!! When I record sounds, the bass/overall adjustments that I acquired from the Equalizer isn't doubled when recording.

Now I can listen to the audio the way I want it, but it also isn't doubled up in recording for some reason. I don't know what the program was doing, but luckily, the default Equalizer in the audio settings knows not to double itself in recordings. Thanks for the help regardless, as my answer did resolve around turning off those enhancements from MaxxAudio. I just didn't know Windows had it's own equalizer that I could adjust things in. So glad that this is finally cleared up, it stopped me from recording videos a year ago because I didn't know how to resolve it (and I've had Maxx since the beginning too, which is why turning it off seemed like the end of the world for me).

If I may pop in on this - even though you seem to have your audio working the way you want now, as I keep reading the rest of the thread - adding something just for those that may still run into this "problem" and not have any software either included or available/working for them (as I did, running into this myself in the past); another way to solve this can be by using a second audio device.

By this, I mean either a USB audio device or a Sound Card - anything that is a second adapter for sound to have as an output. Then, in the Sound Devices in Windows, you can choose which Device is being recording from, having your 'output' enhanced as much as you desire, while having your 'input' be vanilla/flat/original.

Just another idea for anyone that may run into this Glad you got yours working!