Realtek mic level low issue. We need a solution!

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Ok so there is a problem with the microphone level. People having to shout to be heard. My only guess is that you update to the latest and try this:

Right-click the Realtek Audio HD Audio Manager icon in the taskbar and click Audio Devices. Go to the playback tab and double-click your speakers. Go to the Levels tab. Unmute everything and turn everything all the way up.

Any other help is appreciated. I freely admit to being a noob compared to some of you guys.
 
On Vista I've got it and I can make it crazy loud. Right click on the sound icon on the sysTray and click "Recording Devices". Then click "levels" and up both the sliders, if I max both I'm too loud :) So... I've got mine at half and half. Not a bad setup.
 
...you could always slap a FiiO on it. :D

Only possibilities I can think of are:

Drivers
Software gain
Amplification

(assuming that it's a real issue not user/config error)


There's also the possibility of user error, either plugging the mic into the line-in jack or missing a configuration related to it. I vaguely remember Vista having a relevant setting as well - are we seeing any OS correlation here?

I'm not sure if this is the Vista trick I was remembering, but try going into Manage Audio Devices, select the Recording tab, right click and select Properties, then fiddle with the stuff in the Levels tab.
 
ashmedai said:
I'm not sure if this is the Vista trick I was remembering, but try going into Manage Audio Devices, select the Recording tab, right click and select Properties, then fiddle with the stuff in the Levels tab.
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Okay really? haha, I feel like I just said that :) oh well.
 
Try enabling "Microphone Boost"? I get low input levels (with a non-Realtek card) unless I use that. With the boost, everything's fine.
 
ashmedai said:
Yeah, that's the one I was looking for. Where is it?

(I think? Finals fried my brains today...)
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Crap, not home right now so I don't have access to Vista (if that's what you have). It's somewhere in Microphone properties (right click on Micrphone under Recording Devices). One of the tabs has a couple of checkboxes [and nothing else], one of them being the Microphone Boost.
 
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