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If you are having problems with your microphone in Windows, here's how to check the configuration.
| Checking the Microphone settings in Windows | |
| 1) Plug in your headset, both microphone and speakers. Speaker jacks usually have a green color around the connector and microphone has a pink or red color. On laptops, there is sometimes a tiny diagram of a speaker and/or microphone which may be colored green and pink, respectively. If you are using a USB headset or microphone, then this step can be skipped. |  |
| 2) Look for the speaker icon in the System Tray, it is usually in the lower right corner of the display. |   |
| 3) Right-click on the icon and you should see a popup menu like this... Click on Sounds. |  |
| 4) If the Recording tab at the top os not selected, click on it to see the window shown here. (The devices listed for your computer will probably not match what is in the picture.) Make sure the Microphone, or whatever input device you want to use, is the selected device and not Line-In. Then Click on the Properties button. |  |
| 5) Click on the Levels tab and you should see something similar to the image here. You may have to experiment with the microphone levels so that the sound is not too loud or too soft. If you see a Microphone Boost level, make sure it is not set at 0% and again, you may have to experiment with adjusting the levels to get the right sound. |  |
| For Windows 7 and 8 only, unfortunately. 6) One way to check the recording levels is with the Windows Sound Recorder (for Windows 7 and 8) or the Voice Recorder (Windows 10). Press the Start Menu button and start typing "recorder" and the appropiate app should appear, click on it. It looks like one of the images here. With the microphone active, you sould see the sound indicator move as you talk into the mic. If not, try recording by clicking on the Start Recording button or the Mic round button. Take several seconds to say a few sentences and then stop the recording. For the Sound Recorder, a save window will appear to save the recording as a Windows Media Audio file (*.wma). For the Voice Recorder, it will show a play button and automatically save the file, click on the 3 dots (...) to "Open file location" to get to the file. Once you have the saved file, listen to it and determine what adjustments you need to make to the mic settings. (You may have to repeat steps 3-6 multiple times to get the right setting.) |
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| An alternative to steps 3-6 is to download and run an audio app. 7) Download the 64-bit, or 32-bit, version of Wavosaur. Unzip the downloaded file. Run the Wavosaur.exe file and you should see something like the image here. With the microphone active, you sould see the sound indicator move as you talk into the mic. If not, try recording by clicking on the red Recording button. You should notice the sound levels changing, so take several seconds to say a few sentences and then stop the recording by clicking the red record button again. An audio window will appear showing a graph of the audio. You can click the play button to hear your recording and determine what adjustments you need to make to the mic settings. (You may have to repeat this step multiple times. |
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If you have further problems, contact ude.hu.htam@plehthe .