In-Game Voice Chat Input Low
TaylorFactor
Join Date: 2004-05-01 Member: 28362Members
Join Date: 2004-05-01 Member: 28362Members
I have a Jabra USB headset I use with NS2. My transmit voice volume is insanely low to the point that other people can't hear me. On my end in the game settings I turned down music and sound volume to hear others in game and turned voice volume to max, which helps a lot with hearing but not speaking. In other games and VOIP programs my voice levels are just fine. I've run through every audio setting in Windows 7 to find what the issue could be but so far no luck. I've used the headset on other computers, and their audio settings also show the mic transmitting at a normal volume. For some reason my voice input levels drop drastically in NS2 and I can't figure out why.
Any help would be appreciated.
Any help would be appreciated.
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- Right click on the speaker icon in your systray
- Select "Recording devices"
- Right click on your microphone device and click "Properties"
- Click on the "Levels" tab (mic must be connected before this tab even shows up)
- Maximize both the "Microphone" level to 100 and the "Microphone Boost" as high as it goes (probaby +30.0 dB)
See if that helps.
Fun fact: microphones and speakers are basically the same thing (but obviously designed to different purposes), so if you plug your headphones into the microphone jack and talk into the earpiece, you can use it like a (crappy) microphone. But I take no responsibility for any damage :P
EDIT: Mic boost is a feature of the soundcard, and a USB microphone is its own soundcard. USB microphones tend to not support mic boost, it seems. That's the case for me, but my USB mic is only "a bit quieter than I'd like" rather than uselessly low.
I have Logitech G330 which can be used with either USB or classic jacks. I had the same issue while I was using it through USB : some people where telling me that they couldn't hear me… and it seems that the others were actually not listening to me lol.
I've searched a solution for hours (at least dozens of minutes). I've noticed that my micro boost was on something like +25dB on Windows 7. And I finally decided to test to plug my microphone via classic jacks : the result was just fine and now everyone can hear me raging on the voice when I lose my onos in around 10 seconds.
Seems like the problem just come from the USB. But still weird that it only happens in NS2.