Windows 10: Brand new mic very quiet shows 1% result on test

I bought a new microphone which is a USB one, the brand is onn. I plug my mic in and it says its on and connected, not muted either. I hear everything fine but no matter what application or website i use for input, my mic is very low. I went into control panel and made sure it was at 100%, i went into settings and made sure it was the default mic and a few other basic things from googling. Nothing is working, please help. thank you.

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Win10 Quiet Mic

My laptop runs Win10 Business though the mic is very quiet. The mic volume is set to 100%, though when running the mic test it's only reporting 4%.

What do I need to do to resolve ? Thanks

 

Mic is EXTREMELY quiet on pc computer. Only reports 1-5% of volume when testing it.

So my mic that I use on my pc was working fine one day, and the next day for some reason it was incredible quiet. My friends told me when we we're in Discord that I was extremely quiet. I noticed it was also quiet in ever other place that used the mic; OBS, in proximity chat games, and also when I checked it in Settings as well. So it's not a certain app that's the problem, it's either the mic, computer, or Windows 11.

What I've already tried:

The input volume slider has always been at 100% and when I test the mic in Settings it only reports back 1-5% of the volume. I've checked for updates and it says I'm on the latest and best versions for my devices. I did the whole check Device Manager thing for new updates and got nothing. Windows 11 also has no "Recording Audio Troubleshooting" option in the troubleshoot section of Settings, but I found a roundabout way to do what seemed to be just that and it reported no problems. I've checked the mic permission in the Privacy section of Settings already and that didn't do anything. Windows 11 also has no "Enhance Audio" slider in any part of the Sound Settings, so turning that off won't help since it doesn't exist for me. I've tried restarting the Audio Services as well in the window that pops up with Windows+R.

The mic is ~2.5 years old now and is plugged into the 3.5mm jack in the pc. I've also tried plugging it into the L-in jack but that didn't change anything. The only that helped with increasing the volume was going into More Sound Settings, going to the mic, then Levels, and then boosting the volume. This made the mic louder but also made the quality of the mic drop pretty bad.

Is there any way to fix what's happening without having to ruin my mic quality? Any way to revert it to what it was like just a few days ago?

 

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Try all of these fixes for Mic volume too low on Windows 10:

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/i-want-...

https://www.getdroidtips.com/increase-mic-volum...

https://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-10/how-to-boos...

https://techcult.com/how-to-fix-microphone-too-...

https://windowsreport.com/volume-on-microphone-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/how...

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