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When I use my speakers as DEFAULT OUTPUT DEVICE I can redirect the audio to my "Realtek Digital Output" device. As you can see, both devices show an active output signal.

Both devices active

Stereo Mix shows the same signal and is setup as follows:

Mix setup Stereo mix

However, if I make my headset the DEFAULT OUTPUT DEVICE NEITHER the digital output NOR the Mixer continue to display the output signal and the signal NO LONGER is forwarded to "Realtek Digital Output".

Why is that, what could be the reason?

No mixing signal

Further investigation:

Some have written I need to disable "Exclusive access", but it did NOT help.

Exclusive access

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Let me summarize my findings.

As pointed out by Blaelph (thanks!) in the comments, mixing DOES WORK with a REALTEK device as DEFAULT output sound device. It does NOT WORK with one of my headsets (Logitech, KLIM) as DEFAULT routed (mixed) to other devices.

The Windows "APP sounds" feature is also nice, but it does not allow multiple devices for one application.

One of the best summaries about this topic is this Quora answer by James Gurr: I have tested Audio Router and it would be exactly what I need, unfortunately it is no longer maintained and has an issue with SOME applications (because of driver signatures, I could switch those off, but ...) such as Chrome. However, some other applications as Firefox work just fine. Some keep hanging.

driver signature hanging

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