Windows 10: Mic volume extremely low - started mid-Dec 2018

I have a Gigabyte H110M-S2H motherboard with Realtek 6.1.8228 audio drivers and an external condenser microphone. I have a Nvidia 970 graphics card and Win 10 pro build 10240.17443 I was on 1803 until I did a re-install to try to fix this).


It had been working fine at least until end of November. This week I discovered it stopped working. The recording volume of the mic is very low even if I set it to 100% and 30dB enhancement. The condenser mic works on Windows 7. A different mic (cheap clip-on) on Windows 10 works. So that rules out the mic being broken and confirms it is a Windows 10 issue. I re-installed Win10 but even a fresh install failed to fix the problem.


I'm confused why a clip-on mic works but my condenser mic doesn't. And why a fresh install suddenly exhibits the same problems with the mic recording at very low levels.


Regardless, I just hope this problem can be fixed.

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