Windows 10: Why is my microphone picking up my media audio and not my actual voice?

My microphone is picking up audio from any sort of media like spotify, game audio, youtube, discord calls, literally any audio you could play from a pc, and not my voice or any input to the actual mic. I’m using a Steelseries arctis 9x headset that i’ve had to plug in to use due to my motherboard not having bluetooth and i don’t want the delayed audio from a bluetooth adapter. any help available?

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Microphone only picks up audio from headphones?

I currently have a pair of razer kraken pro v2's which are plugged into my computer via a headphone splitter. My computer detects my headphones just fine (audio working and all), but when it comes to using the microphone it doesn't seem to pick up my voice at all and only picks up audio coming out through the headphones.

(EDIT): My microphone can now pick up my voice, but it still picks up sounds from my computer. Any way to fix this this?

 

Microphone not picking up my voice

recently the front 2 3.5mm audio jacks (one for headphones and other for microphone) stopped working, so i decided to buy a usb adapter and the audio from my headset is now working but the microphone is not picking up my voice unless i put it right up against my lips. i have tried updating and reinstalling my drivers, put the microphone level in sounds up to 100% but nothing seems to help. does anybody have any advice or ideas that could help? thanks

 

Microphone not picking up my voice

Hello Mathew,

My name is Nada an independent advisor, and I'm here to help you.

I'm sorry that you are experiencing this issue, and I will try my best to assist you.

As it is possible that this is due to a corrupted, outdated, and malfunctioning audio and microphone driver. You can try to update your microphone driver and select the previous version, commonly the suggested driver for your system to get this sorted out.

To proceed you may follow the steps below:

1. Open Device Manager:

2. Click the drop-down for Audio inputs and outputs

3. Look for your microphone driver

4. Right-click and Update

5. Look for the option that says "Browse my computer for driver..."

6. Select the option that says "Let me pick drivers available drivers"

7. Then choose an old driver version and click next to use it.

8. Please restart the device for the changes to take effect.

You can also try to change the default audio device by doing the following steps:

From Settings > System > Sound > Open up the Input devices dropdown menu and select your microphone.

In case your Microphone is disabled, please try the following steps to enable it:

1. From Settings > Go to System > Click on Sound in the left sidebar > click

Manage sound devices > under the troubleshooting button in the input device settings

2. Scroll down and locate your device under the disabled section > click enable.

Also, I highly suggest you check and install available Windows updates.