[Volume Control] Controlling treble & bass - Adding extra sliders

I'm using WinXP, but I noticed my lousy on-board soundcard hasn't bass/treble available in properties. As I understand in that case they also won't be available in vol plugin when this is supported, because that would require equalizer components(?).

Not necessarily the case! A lot of cheaper sound chips these days are based on chipsets like AC97 which DOES support bass/treble adjustment. Because the chipset manufacturer leaves writing of drivers to the company that it sells to, you usually find that they don't always write drivers that support all the features of the chipset.

My advice is to find out a little more about your sound chip, and see what's available out there!

It's the same with GFX cards. I bought a Leadtek Titanium 2, and then ditched their clunky (and awfully "colourful") WinFox software in favour of the nVidia drivers, as the Leadtek uses the GeForce2 Ti chipset.

Offtopic:
Please tell me, what can you do with 2 sound cards? How do you (or Mrs. HorusUK) use them? I have several unused (old) soundcards, maybe you could show me what I could do with them?

As she's a singer, and I tend to do her sound/production, They're linked into mixers, samplers, minidiscs, and whatever else gets thrown at them. Having 2 soundcards just means I can double up on the inputs and outputs we have.