Vista and Quiet Mics

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I seem to be finding an annoying trend here with using microphones and Vista in any flavor. I goggled a ton of people having the same problem that I have encountered, which is my mic's output volume is extremely low but I already have the setting for it to 100 and added any boost options that were found. My desktop has Vista 64 Ultimate on it with a SB XFi sound card that I’ve been mainly trying and I’ve tried my laptop which has Vista 32 Home Premium. The headset is a Cyber Acoustics USB thing that has served me well in the past.

As I kept searching for any solutions I noticed lots of people had the same problem but nothing seemed to be the same except for the problem itself; that the mic was quiet and they were using Vista. People with all sorts of old mics plugged into sound cards or people using new USB mics and every variation of Vista pretty much (32bit, 64bit, Premium, Ultimate, etc) as well as every sort of program like MSN, Yahoo, Skype, Vent and Teamspeak so I am very inclined to think that it might actually be a fault within Vista.

My only options I have that I am down to is trying this headset in XP to verify if the mic itself on the headset is past its prime, getting another headset to try out or some sort of crazy fix I haven’t encountered yet. A 3rd party sound mixer would be nice but if it would even work with a USB mic is beyond me.

Any ideas?
 
I'm the only one with this problem on [H]? Hey it's very possible! :)

I'm stopping off at Bestbuy on the way home from work, last day of some decent looking HP headphones on sale. These have traditional connectors and are not USB so I can try that out to see if it works on the XFi and Vista instead of the USB connection. If that doesn't work then I guess I am getting out that XP CD to confirm that portion.
 
Yes this problem is real and it happened to alot of people without any fixes stated.I am running vista ultimate X64 and using the built in realtek sound card.I Actually fixed it once.And that was by fluke.I had uninstalled and reinstalled both the realtek drivers and microsofts drivers dozens of times.Well after installing the microsoft driver after 8 times it finally worked.Albeit not like it should but people could actually hear me.Now of course when i have everything turned up and the mic about 2-3 inches to my mouth people can hear me fine.So I'm not sure if anyone has found a fix to this or not but if anyone has any ideas please post them.
 
I'm using Vista Ult 64 and a Logitech USB headset/mic and dont have any issues. I only use the mic with SAM broadcaster so have no idea if there's any issues using with other apps.
 
ok what sound card are you using?Is it a built in realtek or is it a externel creative?What are you running?
 
DoomD said:
ok what sound card are you using?Is it a built in realtek or is it a externel creative?What are you running?
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Onboard Realtek HD audio, but that's irrelevant, USB headphones/mic work fine with or without a soundcard. If your using a USB mic, make sure you have the usb mic set as the recording device in whatever app you are using. In SAM i have to set the recording device as the USB mic and NOT the sound card.
 
Ok well are you sure its working correctly?Like what settings are you using?Cause i know if i set my desktop mic about the same distance away from my mouth as that of a headset it will work just fine.Its like there is some filter on in vista but nobody knows how to turn it off.Well either way hopefully this will eventually be fixed with a driver update.But for now i will just keep the mic super close to my mouth i guess.
 
Yes I'm sure its working correctly, I use it every day and have been for months with zero issues
 
well then i guess its a hardware issue or maybe a software conflict.Well either i will not worry about it to much.But i just hope that when i buy my asus xonor sound card that i can use the mic how i should be able to use it.
 
I had to ditch my Xonar D2X for this very reason. The mic would be too soft to work in Ventrillo. The mobo sound worked fine and my HT Omega does too. I am running Vista 64 on an Asus Maximus Formula mobo. Also had issues with x-fi (popping and crackling).
 
Dont tell me that dual:( Well i actually havnt chosen between the ht striker or the asus but i may just go with the striker if their drivers are better in vista.
 
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