Windows 10: Having a microphone activated mutes all other sounds

As the title says, whenever the mic is on (i.e. while talking to friends on discord or using the voice chat on a game) it mutes all other sounds.
I have a pair of REDMI Airdots, and the only way that I can listen to other things is to use the "Headset" option, but it drops the audio quality significantly.
Initially, I thought it was a Discord problem, but recently I started playing Sea Of Thieves which has the microphone on at all times, and it muted the game sounds the same way.

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muting microphone

Same issue. Windows 10 mutes the microphone only for Google Hangouts.
I found it muted when I go to Sounds and I unmute but still doesn't work.

Troubleshooted from the sound icon and the mute issue didn't even come up as an issue.

Searched on microphone in search and then troubleshooted it from there (the troubleshooting looked different from there) and it came up that the microphone had been muted and was fixed. And guess what? I could use my microphone again.

I have found it will just mute itself again for no reason that I can find out.

 

muting microphone

i am still having the same problem with the microphone reverting to a muted state after restart.
the thing is there are 2 microphone drivers (for some reason),when i unmute the muted mic driver i can make a sound and i see that it is recognized but not by the driver i just unmuted.

 

Windows Explorer is muting microphone

Hi Jozef,

To help you stop your microphone from muting automatically, we suggest that you follow the steps suggested by
Kalpana Shankarappa on this
thread that talks about the same issue.

Let us know how it goes.

Thank you.