Vista Microphone Problem

Mute the mic in Playback properties and leave it unmuted and selected in Recording properties.

You like hearing yourself talk that much?



The reason it should be muted under playback (and for that matter, not even selected under playback) is feedback. Not so much an issue if you're using a headset... but still I find it extremely distracting hearing my voice echo back at me when I'm using voice. Double-check your sound settings in the control panel... remember that Vista has separate volume controls for different applications. (One for Windows and one for games, if I remember correctly). Ensure that the mic is enabled when you're playing games.

im kinda a mic noob but can someone tell me how to unmute your mic in vista home premium, cuz i think thats whats making my mic not work in bf 2142, please help.

^ ^ Hey man if you wouldnt mind explaining how you did get your mic to work in TS or ventrillo that would be awsome.

Thanks

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you guys might want to try updating your drivers too. i was having mic problems in tf2 and other steam games for awhile, mic would work but would come across really distorted to other players and occasionally not work at all. checked using sound recorder and mic worked as normal, so it was likely driver incompatibility. installed latest drivers and everything works as it should at default settings.

If you're using your built in drivers, most likely realtek HD drivers, definitely upgrade those. It'll take some of the load off of your processor, not much but some, and more than likely solve your problem. GL~!

::Look EASIEST WAY OF THEM ALL RIGHT HERE::

[1] --> Right Click the Volume Icon at the bottom right corner of your screen [The Task bar].
[2] --> Click [Playback Devices]
[3] --> Right Click the [Speakers] Icon and click Properties
[4] --> Click the [Levels] Tab; and there you will see the Microphone Volume slider (The one at the very bottom of the "HD Audio output" and "PC Beep" sliders where you can un-mute the mic playback (By clicking the unmute icon, than slide the volume up to where you prefer it... Simple I hope I was able to help someone with this...


Volume Slider:

----Microphone-------------------------
|---------------------------------[|]-------------| [_0_] [ < )) ] [Balance]
(0%) (100%)


[ OK ] [Cancel] [Apply]

(if you want your Microphone to stay on the "unmuted" setting; you may want to click apply...

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.. ______________-------.......[:<o> DIRECTIONS SIMPLIFIED <o>::].......-------______________

<|) ) ) R CLICK VOLUME ICON : CLICK PLAYBACK DEVICES : R CLICK SPEAKER ICON : CLICK PROPERTIES : CLICK LEVELS TAB : UNMUTE SLIDER AND SLIDE SOUND LVL{S} [X]
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WOW, NONE OF YOU FAGGOTS CAME UP WITH ANY KIND OF HELPING ANSWER....**** ALL OF YOU. CAN SOMEONE FIGURE THIS **** OUT ASAP.......SERIOUSLY...**** ALL OF YOU LITTLE BITCH ASS PENIS LOVERS

how do you get microphone to even show on your tab, my friend has vista i sadly don't and am trying to help get the microphone to show on the volume tab but am unsuccessful thus far, any help would be greatly appreciated .

Hi, my problem is that in step 4 of your directions, there is no "Microphone Volume" slider, only HD Audio Output and PC Beep sliders. In other words there is no option to unmute there. There is a mic volume slider under recording devices>microphone>levels, but even when I adjust that it's still muted. I think I've looked through every "sound" related menu page, no luck. I'm using Vista Home Premium 64-bit.

However my laptop's built in mic does work when I play back a recording (as do other sound devices plugged into the external mic in jack, such as a keyboard or synth), but there is nothing coming from the speakers when using the mic in real time. This is really annoying because I used to use my old computer for recording and performing music, and in XP all I had to do was unclick "mute" in the sound properties menu. Now all my musical equipment/software is worthless if I can't hear anything while I'm recording it.

Does anyone else have this problem and know how to fix it?

Well after downloading the latest Realtek driver, I now have the Realtek HD Audio Manager in the Control Panel. It allows you to unmute the mic for playback... however when I did so, I immediately had to mute it again because of feedback.

So it's possible to do, but whether it's advisable or not is another matter.

Do you have a built-in mic somewhere? Like in a webcam for instance? Windows might be defaulting to that instead of the external mic. Check your sound devices in the Control Panel and see if there are mulitple microphones. If there are, try selecting another mic.

Even if you think you have the correct one selected... choose the other one just to be sure. You'd be surprised.

What I'd like to know is that if you're using the microphone to record... you should be able to hear what you're recording "real time" as you have to make noise in order for the microphone to pick it up. Same thing with the above poster... you're speaking into the mic, so therefore you shouldn't have to hear it through the speakers in order to hear yourself speaking. You can't edit in real time as you're recording anyway.

Make sure you have the latest drivers available for you sound card. You may have to use your sound card's applet instead of the Windows mixer to get all the available options. For instance, in order to unmute the mic on my old laptop, I had to use the Realtek applet (Realtek HD audio) to unmute it... there was no option to do so under the Windows Volume Control.

Hi,

I have the same exactly problem, as I have windows vista home premium 64 -bit. I am am using this discussion site for help.

Last night i went into bed 2:10 am trying to resolve this issue with no avail. As you rightly pionted out, it works in the recording mode. what I observed, in the recording mode, the sound come through the media player and I thinking if I can find some way to switch the sound from the media player to the speaker, it will work. If I get through, I will share. Wish me good luck,

Loseit.