On Monday 08 November 2004 11:21 pm, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Probably not the answer you were looking for but.... I have a little box that plugs in the audio out on my machine, it has a switch to turn it between the speakers and the headphones (so that Kirsty doesn't get annoyed when I am playing quake et al)
one of these http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=&products_id=9043
It could help the situation anyhow.
Adam
Tis an idea, and one that had already crossed my mind (although I was going to bodge something together from my parts drawer)
But the other really compelling thing about the Plantronics headsets that they have some clever DSP hardware that is supposed to really tidy up call quality. Unfortunately the DSP models are only available in USB.
Also it solves one other tiny problem with Skype, that is if you mess about with your soundcard levels a lot (I do) you loose the volume levels for Skype. then when a call comes in you have to make a quick dash for KAMix (or whatever) to get the volume set again. Actually that is something Skype could really do with, a "When making or answering calls revert Mixer to these settings" button.