Windows 10: My mic is not inputting and every source gives me the same like 7 things to do that dont work

Repeatedly my headphones with a mic that are connected via dongle dont transmit my voice when I accidentally unplug the dongle. Previously I have fixed it but I cant seem to get it this time. Ive even updated the dongle and headphone drivers that I was missing.

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Windows 10 Mic/Line Input Auto-Adjustment

So Windows 10 appears to have introduced some form of native system-level microphone/line input automatic adjustment that programs that can be hooked into which is causing me to sound like a whisper via my Condenser mic in some applications and I would love
to find a way to disable it so that I can control input adjustment myself. Does anyone know how to do this as searching around is not giving me any viable results.

Things of note;

• This is only happening on certain applications, such as Firefox, the Discord desktop app and Skype (with exception I'll note below).

• All my USB headset mics seem to be fine

• This is happening only on my condenser mic via 3.5mm

• It's happening across two distinct sound hardwares (a dedicated audio card and the onboard motherboard audio), implying this is not a driver/hardware issue (they are two completely different chipsets but yes they have been updated regardless).

• Audio-relative software (OBS, Adobe Audition, 3rd party mixers like Voicemeeter Banana) all take my input fine, I effectively sound normal when using any of these to record locally, playback my mic directly or even stream on twitch.

• It seems to be explicitly limited to software that uses/hooks into whatever windows natively provides for input auto adjustment. And the main reason I've come to the conclusion it's something windows-provided is because Skype only does this when I enable
  it's "Automatic adjustment" in it's settings. If I disable that setting I sound perfectly fine as I should. With Skype and Microsoft being pretty heavily windows-integrated these days, particularly in Windows 10 it gives me a heavy feeling that it's likely
  a native windows feature that Skype is hooking into, and the above mixed-software outcomes back it up imo.

Does anyone know how I can possibly disable this feature at a system-wide level? I'll even take some powershell/CLI convoluted trickery, I just want to be able to use my setup like I had previously in Windows 7.

 

USB Mic Problems.

The next step is what I suggested originally. Try it in a friend's PC or take it to Best Buy and ask them to try it one of their PC's. Have to confirm the mic is working OK.

 

mic isnt working

my brand new mic works on other devices but refuses to give a squeak on my pc. its a usb mic. ive done everything suggested in help forums and it still isnt working. ive also tried with airpods and none of the options i have worked, yet they worked elsewhere, so i know this is a windows issue. there is no error message, the mic is unmuted, the input is correct, the mic is connected, theres just static on the other side when i test it in game and in settings. mic volume is at 100% and it still isnt working. PLEASE HELP!!!!