Microphone sounds muffled

Tran · August 25, 2019

I just came back from vacation and was forced to update to the new windows, when I began talking my friends told me my mic sounded muffled and I don't know what to do now. I've restarted my PC and I still sound muffled. Is it because of the new Windows 10 Update?

I have a Audio Tech At2020

Semper · August 25, 2019

Access your microphone properties (right click the speaker on your toolbar, open "sound settings", under input click "device properties", then click "additional device properties"), switch over to the advanced tab and see what your default format sample rate is.

Windows updates have somewhat frequently, but sporadically, reset the sample rate down to 1 channel, 11025 bit, which sounds as though you're talking with your head inside a box.

Tran · August 25, 2019

3 minutes ago, Semper said:

Access your microphone properties (right click the speaker on your toolbar, open "sound settings", under input click "device properties", then click "additional device properties"), switch over to the advanced tab and see what your default format sample rate is.

Windows updates have somewhat frequently, but sporadically, reset the sample rate down to 1 channel, 11025 bit, which sounds as though you're talking with your head inside a box.

I reverted back to the old update and it seem to be the update cause my mic works fine now. I'm just gonna wait for them to fix everything from that update cause I heard its pretty buggy atm. Thank you for your help

Semper · August 25, 2019

3 minutes ago, Tran said:

I reverted back to the old update and it seem to be the update cause my mic works fine now. I'm just gonna wait for them to fix everything from that update cause I heard its pretty buggy atm. Thank you for your help

Seems to be the trend for Microsoft as of late. Sounds good! Should this ever happen again, this would be the first thing I'd check. Every time it's been an issue for my friends and I (and others that I've helped - with the exception of one instance where a mic was once dropped in ketchup), this has always been the issue.