high-frequencies getting filtered

[trehug]

Hi all, not sure where to ask this, I hope someone can give me some insight.

When I go to a website that allows me to stream audio and video from my webcam
- it pops up the flash dialogue box to ask my permission....that's fine - then
I choose to route my soundcard's input to the stream instead of my webcam
microphone and it works - but for some reason, it rolls off the high
frequencies, and it sounds muddy and not clean and tight. With music, all the
hi-hats are gone, and all the sizzle is missing, not great!

I have been trying hard to find any info about HOW flash grabs the audio, or
where I can change the settings as to how it interfaces with the incoming
audio, but I can't find anything anywhere. The only settings seem to be:
line-in, and level - that's it. No other audio controls of any sort...

...in testing - I tried listening to other people's streams on the same site,
and they have clear audio! I can directly A/B between mine and others and mine
is DEFINITELY filtered down.... ???

I have tested my soundcard input into other recording software, like ableton
live and it is FINE. No filtering is happening at the soundcard level, and
recording into other applications is pristine and perfect.

So, when I go thru the Flash interface, it is filtered - and since I'm trying
to stream live audio productions, it is frustrating to say the least.

my setup - xp home, all updated, latest flash version 9....my soundcard is an
external motu-2408-mkII with ASIO drivers and regular drivers

So, I guess my question is....since my sound input seems to work fine, but
only going through Flash does it get filtered - HOW do I access the Flash
drivers that affect this, Is there ANY info about how flash interfaces with my
audio anywhere....

Any advice will be greatly appreciated !! Thanks all, best regards,
trevor

[fmslove]

You might want to try out "Flash Media Encoder" for streaming Live input from various devices. It has nice UI for setting Mp3 bitrates and can be used to publish "audio only" stream also.