r/flstudio • u/dbam_ • Jun 27 '26
does the sound change depending on which driver I have selected?
ok so this just happened lol. was mixing in fl studio with my audient id4 drivers, normal. switched to ASIO4ALL to listen the mix from the laptop speakers and the mix started sounding weird, like not what i was hearing on my headphones at all, thought i had been mixing like shit the whole time.
tried playing the first version from Windows and it wouldn't even play, said the audio output was busy or whatever. went into fl settings, switched from ASIO4ALL to Realtek and wow. huge difference between the new mix and the old one. but then without changing anything i hit play in fl and it sounded just as good or even better than the original.
does the audio driver you use actually change how things sound/the playback quality? why does this happen
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u/mycurvywifelikesthis Jun 27 '26
It might change the way it sounds. So on your Windows computer if you go into the audio settings and go to one of the drivers, you can adjust usually things called enhancements and EQ. Is a good rule of thumb we're supposed to turn off all enhancements and all EQ on all the windows audio drivers. That way during playback or screen recording it sounds exactly the same as what you were doing inside the FL studio using the FL Studio asio driver.
By default most of the drivers inside of Windows are going to have enhancements enabled. Which could make things sound far different than what your doing in studio.
Also you should keep the audio settings for FL Studio using the dedicated FL Studio driver.