Hey Chris. Just wondering how you are getting along with that turtle Beach
Audio Advantage SRM. I haven't sent for one my self as I didn't feel I
needed it now. But, I'm really curious about controlling the 10 band
equalizer. Is the software accessible?
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Skarstad" <toonhe...@verizon.net>
To: <pc-audio@pc-audio.org>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:51 PM
Subject: my initial impressions of the turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM
A while ago, I had asked about buying an external sound card, and I
eventually chose the Turtle Beach Audio Advantage SRM.
This card is tiny, weighing in only a few ounces, and it kind of looks
like a cigarette lighter at first glance.
It has 4 audio jacks 2 on each end of the card, the ones I've paid the
most attention to are the microphone, and the headphone jack, which are on
the same end.
This card also sports 2 stereo mics, a green LED light that blinks when
audio is present, and stays solid when none is playing. So if you have
some usable sight this might take a bit of getting used to.
I have a set of speakers hooked up to the card which handles my music and
windows sounds, and I have Window-eyes 7.01 routed to my laptop's internal
Sigmatel card. So I now have 2 sets of speakers instead of one. This
allows me to have more control over the volume of each one.
I have 2 volume controls to use now, but if I want to hear the speech over
the music more, it's easier for me, because I can keep the music at the
same level now.
As far as instalation goes, I had another friend of mine helping me, and
we learned a somewhat valuable lesson that I'm sure most people probably
know either through just being technically savvy, or having the same
experience we had. If you're going to install this card, be sure to hook
the card *directly* into your laptop or desktop's USB ports, do not use a
USB hub. If you do, the driver's won't install properly, because the card
can't draw enough power. The card is recognized, but not to the same
point as it would be via a regular straight USB connection. So make sure
you have a free USB port handy.
To install it, we first inserted the cd that came with the card. If
you're using window-eyes, you'll have to use your mouse pointer, numpad
plus pressed twice, and then you use your numpad 2 and 8 keys to arrow
down to where it says setup. At that point, press your left mouse button
and the software will install. Then, when prompted, please insert the
cable into the card, and the other end into the USB port.
You may lose speech after pressing yes at this point, but this can be
fixed. It's a good bet that the card is now active, so what you'll need
to do is plug a pare of headphones or speakers into the headphone jack. If
you hear speech, you're good to go. The headphone jack is located on the
top right handside of the card, you'll feel a circular sort of socket or
plug with ridges, and just to the right of that, that's your headphone
jack. The jack to the left of that one is your microphone jack. When you
plug a headset mic or any other mic into that jack, the stereo mics on the
card itself are muted, so for the least confusing results, I would say you
might want to have something plugged into that jack all the time.
Initially, the software tried to install the necessary driver for the card
to function properly, but I had to reboot a couple of times to get the
process to work properly. Hey, I'm new to this and it was a learning
experience. So the driver installed and all, at this point, seems to be
working well. As for the SRM control pannel program, it is definitely
not very speech friendly, not without a lot of mousing around. and even
then, some of the screens look mighty confusing. So the best way to
customize things is to probably stick to using the regular Windows volume
control. That will allow ou to set things how you want them. Overall,
I'm very pleased with the card! The install was a bit touch and go
because, as I said we weren't sure why things weren't working but after I
remembered that I had been using a hub, and I plugged the card directly
into my laptop USB port, that's when things vastly improoved. Hope this
helps anyone looking to buy a card like this. Hopefully it'll help you
avoid any pitfalls along the way and you'll have your new card up and
running in ono time!
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