Player 1 is assigned multiple microphones

[Thycora]

Hello, I hope this was the right place to report this issue.  I'm having a little problem, and I swear I've done everything right and tried looking up answers elsewhere to no avail.  There was one website that had mentioned my problem ... but it was in Spanish and I'm afraid I don't speak that language x3

I swear my mic is connected properly and that it is literally the only one hooked up to my computer.  I really don't get it.I would assume that this screen cap would show that I have only one mic for player 1 ...


But every time I try to exit now it says:



I had fiddled around with getting it to recognize that my microphone was even there, because it wasn't picking up on my voice at all when I attempted to play, but maybe I borked something up? I'm using a PC by the way.  Any help would be appreciated -- I have never really played any karaoke games before and I'd love to do this with pony because I love pony and yeah.

[Renard]

Cycle through the available sound cards (first item in that menu) - you'll notice that P1 is probably already assigned to another one there, by default. Set all unused sound channels to "Off".

For more details, see here: http://www.ultraguide.net/microphones.php and here: http://youtu.be/I6fhT75E6vQ?t=3m41s ;)

[Thycora]

I don't think I could see that one of the mics was assign to player 1 by default, maybe I'm not understanding right ...

I did try cycling through all the soundcards, and it's still telling me that player 1 is assigned to multiple microphones.  :(  I figured that maybe I couldn't see all the text due to some sort of font setting, so I tried to back out by turning off all mics and it still wouldn't let me back out by saying "player 1 is assigned to multiple microphones".  This is starting to become frustrating, but I can be patient.  Maybe I need to restart the program or something?

[Renard]

On the "Soundcard" line, cycle through all available cards (and inputs, if some cards have multiple inputs) by pressing ← / →, and set all channels to "Off". Once everything is set to "Off", choose your microphone and assign it to P1.

[Thycora]

Ooooh, okay, now I understand, thank you!  The video is also helpful, I no longer have the problem of player 1 being assigned multiple mics.   Still can't get the channels to be independent of one another, despite following the video's exact instructions, maybe it's something with my headset? I dunno.  After fixing the multiple mics problem, I set everything "Off", right clicked on my audio, went to recording devices, double clicked on my mic and set it to 2 Channel, CD quality like the video said (unless my vision is going bonkers too) and the two channels refuse to act independent of one another. I hope I can figure it out eventually, thank you for your help!

[PsychicWalnut]

Microphones are single-channel devices by nature.  When plugged into a stereo port, they will often send their signal to both the left and right channels.

The way to make the two channels independent is to use a Y-cable (or other hardware component) to combine two mono channels into a single stereo channel.  Using this method, you can leave one end unhooked and still not worry about audio crossover.

Bear in mind, doing this will not improve your score in game.  Your voice is already reaching the game just fine.

[Thycora]

Oooh, okay.  This helped so much, thank you!!  Oddly enough, when I was trying to sing with the game, not test it, it would act like my voice wasn't there, but now the problem is solved!!  Thank you very very much!!  ;D