Windows 10: Microphone volume extremely low

After I reset my computer due to hard disk failure. I've experience problem with my microphone. The problem is when I'm on my Teams call, my friends told me that my mic audio is extremely low. Did a test on audacity software and all of my microphone including the built-in on my laptop receive extremely lowAt first I tried to reinstall teams, wondering if that solves. Answer, no. After that, I've tried all kinds of tips and trick, methodgoing to additional device properties>microphone properties etc. Before that I run a test on my headphone to see if the problem came from my gear. Answer,

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Extremely low microphone volume after upgrade

After updating from Windows 7 to Windows 10 (kinda prefer 7 to be honest, but still getting used to 10), I've discovered that the input volume on my microphone - a generic old style (though not immensely old) stalk mic - is extremely low, low enough that
software just considers it noise. I have updated my Realtek audio drivers to no effect. Driver volume and boost set to maximum. Any idea what I can do about this?

 

Extremely low microphone volume

Since version 1803 I'm facing issues with my microphone. As mentioned in the title, the volume is EXTREMELY low, to the point that holding it further than 1cm from the mouth made me almost inaudible on skype or discord. The microphone is zalman zm1. Tried
several others, the issue remained.

Since it was plugged into Xonar DX I had no access to enhancement tab and boost. The drivers are custom, so the issue is not caused by new drivers changing anything.

For the time being I plugged the microphone into the motherboard in order to use the boost. However, this is not a solution because boost is artificial and significantly reduces the quality.

Is there any fix to this issue? Pretty much every topic on the matter concludes with "plug into the motherboard, 30db boost and that's it" which is ridiculous.

I already tried newest realtek drivers as well as old drivers from Asus for my motherboard, both fail to resolve the issue.

 

Microphone not working (sometimes extremely low volume)

Hi Martin,

As you are unable to access microphone from your head phones, we will help you with this issue.

Do let us know the following to assist you better with this issue:

• How have you connected the headphones to your device?
• Have you tried to set the headphones as a default device and check?
• Have you made any changes to the operating system that might have resulted in this?

As a work around, try the below and update us the status of this issue:

• I suggest you to connect the headphones to different device and check if the microphone is working fine. This will help us to detect if the issue is with headphone.
• If headphones are working fine on other devices, try to connect the headphones to different ports on the PC in the question and check if it is working fine. This will help us to know if the issue is with ports.

I recommend you to refer to the below thread, try the suggestions by
Wasim Asad to increase the Microphone volume level and check if it helps.

Cortana can’t hear me – Microphone level keeps getting set to zero.


Hope it helps. Try the above and update us the status of accessing microphone with the required information, we will be happy to help you further.

Thank you.