I've recently somehow come across the problem of having weird muffled sounds whenever there's any base in any music or sounds in general I play.

I've had this with the built-in alsa drivers with the kernel, and also with the external drivers I would download from the alsa website.

I'm running Gentoo Stage 1, I was using the 2.6.5 gentoo dev kernel had the problem earlier, and tried switching to the 2.6.6 kernel. I stil have the same problem.

I have no idea how to remedy this problem. Any tips would be helpful. I didn't have this problem before, but then I decided to install the alsa drivers from the alsa website, my sound didn't work, so I uninstalled them, and went back to the alsa drivers from the kernel source, and I continued to have this problem.