quiet mic

[Ezza]

Having an issue where my mic is really quiet, this is bad, its never been an issue and works fine on other games, playing feedback via windows its loud, and feedback through steam its loud, i have no filters selected and highest quality but gmod its really quiet.

Any ideas?

TIA

 

[A1L]

This happens to me on Garry's Mod only, people say my microphone is quiet but I just tell them to do voice_maxgain 6 and then they can hear me, honestly have no idea what's wrong at all, my windows sound playback shows me speaking just fine but then when I go onto garry's mod, it seems so much more quiet.

 

[Exnem]

This happens to me on Garry's Mod only, people say my microphone is quiet but I just tell them to do voice_maxgain 6 and then they can hear me, honestly have no idea what's wrong at all, my windows sound playback shows me speaking just fine but then when I go onto garry's mod, it seems so much more quiet.

ngl even with voice_maxgain 10 i can barely hear you sometimes at 2am

 

[A1L]

ngl even with voice_maxgain 10 i can barely hear you sometimes at 2am

Sometimes I speak low but even when I do speak up apparently its just me but I've literally spoke on teamspeak just fine, and other stuff its just gmod and 0 clue whats up with it tbf lol

 

[Ezza]

Sometimes I speak low but even when I do speak up apparently its just me but I've literally spoke on teamspeak just fine, and other stuff its just gmod and 0 clue whats up with it tbf lol

Was fine last year and fine playing call of duty all lockdown now its quiet on gmod only

 

[Exnem]

Was fine last year and fine playing call of duty all lockdown now its quiet on gmod only

gmod got a new voice codec, making voice chat higher quality but lower volume by default, you have to change it through voice_maxgain to raise incoming volume for yourself.

 

[rogue]

make sure it has been turned up in gmod settings menu, and turn on boost gain

 

[Ezza]

@A1L Do you have a Corsair headset by chance? ive brought my jabra call centre headset home from work and everyone can hear me fine haha

 

[A1L]

@A1L Do you have a Corsair headset by chance? ive brought my jabra call centre headset home from work and everyone can hear me fine haha

No, Astros A10, had them for a bit even before the gmod voice quality went back and it seems to be fine before then so no idea why it's fucking up now

 

[Ezza]

No, Astros A10, had them for a bit even before the gmod voice quality went back and it seems to be fine before then so no idea why it's fucking up now

yeah its weird my shitty 20 quid call centre headset works fine for people hearing me but my 100 quid corsair one dosent hahaha

 

[Ezza]

No, Astros A10, had them for a bit even before the gmod voice quality went back and it seems to be fine before then so no idea why it's fucking up now

might just buy another snowball save this hassle

 

[Dylan77]

*Bump* Anyone find a fix for quiet mic? (users' mic)

 

[Moon]

If this is nade ye ur mic sucks ass in game I can barley hear you sometimes and sometimes it's fine idk

 

[Sneaky]

Make sure your transmit volume is raised to it's maximum in your (oldschool) windows audio settings

 

[Creepis]

-Use the 3.5mm jack instead of a USB adapter, try plugging directly into the motherboard and not into the front IO.
-Download and update your motherboard specific audio drivers for the chipset that it uses, these can be found in any motherboard manufactures product support page. Realtek is within many motherboards.
-What Sneaky said
-Try out EqualizerAPO to amplify volume which helped me before. https://sourceforge.net/projects/equalizerapo/

 

[Double J]

@Ezza is this issue still occurring?

If so,
Use the voice_maxgain command I console and find a suitable level
Have a look in steam settings at receive volume and transmit volume,
Have a look inside your control panel and see if anything can be changed for your microphone.

 

[chickenrappa]

@Ezza I had this issue a while back when I got new headphones, it turns out I had to play with the settings on Windows as well as on the headset as the headset by default continued to input me at a low volume due to the microphone input slider on them being low.

 

[Mxdium]

Closed

Assuming it is solved due to the poster not replying to @Double J his last message.