Frustrating audio issue.

[Jihadjoe]

Now this is slightly annoying, because audio and sound engineering is part of what I do for work, so I was fairly convinced I could solve this problem myself, but apparently not.

All the sound my computer makes is played over the mic and line-in inputs on my audio device, regardless of whether something is plugged into it or not.

Why is this? I wish I knew.

It makes skype and so on a real annoyance, unless I plug in the usb mixing board I use for small live gigs (which acts as a second audio device), and use that as skype's input device. I don't want to have to keep anything that cumbersome sitting around my PC.

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