Windows 10: Headset Microphone, when speaking I'm using 5% of my total microphone volume.

Hello, I've had this problem for a while now, and its getting more and more frustrating as time goes on because when I play online with my friends, my microphone volume is so low though its 100% on every app I use, It's 100% on discord and my friends have me on 200% volume just to hear me. My microphone on sound > properties > Levels is on 100% with no boost option and I'm really not sure what to doHere its showing I'm using 5% of my total volume.I'm using a Corsair Virtuoso RGB headset wirelessly with a USB stick.I've looked everywhere for fixes, software to help, but I've found nothi

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Apple Headset/Microphone not working

Sound quality issue is often related to people turning their microphone levels too high.

My microphones don't record my voice as loud as I speak

Your android headset or your apple headset stop working in January? It's not clear from your answers.

Your IT people should be able to figure out realtek driver issues and microphone sensitivity/volume issues for your android headset. Figure that out first.

You are chasing some faraway apple headset issue. Is your IT manager using the same laptop? Is it really the same apple headset? iPhones don't have audio jacks for a while and there are earbuds with volume controls and there are earbuds without. They look mostly the same.

 

Microphone & Speaking

Hi tlcadieux2,

There are a number of reasons why you are having challenges in using the Microphone while talking to Cortana.

Below are the different methods on how to get this resolved.

Method 1: Turn on the Microphone in Settings.

This is the most common reason why the Microphone is not working. You can turn on the Microphone by following these steps:

• Go to Settings.
• Choose Privacy.
• Click Microphone.
• Under Let apps use my microphone, slide the toggle button to turn it on.

Method 2: Set up Microphone from the Control Panel.

Modifying the Sound Settings may help in resolving your concern. Follow the steps below:

• Type Sound in Cortana Search.
• Choose the first search result.
• Click the Recording tab.
• If you can’t find the Microphone from the list, right-click on the list then select Show Disabled Devices, otherwise proceed to step 5.
• Right-click the Microphone.
• Select Enable.
• Click Properties.
• Choose the Levels tab.
• Set the Microphone volume to a higher value.
• Choose the Enhancements tab.
• Tick the box beside the Disable all sound effects option.
• Hit OK.

Method 3: Update the Microphone driver.

Here’s an article that would walk you through the steps on how to update drivers
in Windows 10. It also includes steps in case you would have to uninstall and reinstall the Microphone driver.

Hope this helps!

Kind regards,

Leon

 

Headset/Microphone background reduction; suggestions

There's a solution to this out there, but I cannot pinpoint the right search terminology to get accurate results.


When I speak into my microphone, whatever sound is being sent into my headphones, is also directly sent to the microphone and outputted upon transmit.

This means that it's not a case of the sound coming out of the headphones, then travelling to the microphone, it's actually going straight to the microphone instead.

All I've come up with so far, is a suggestion to mute the microphone input via Windows. Though that seems to render the microphone useless.