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AT2020 Mic Issues

reeceb
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I've had my Audio Technica AT2020 for many months now with no problems at all, but just recently my microphone has gotten louder, whenever I talk in voice chats with my friends, they say that I'm too loud even though I was speaking normally, I then opened audacity and recorded the waveforms, it's almost as if a distortion filter was added naturally somehow because it's REALLY LOUD!

 

Here is a recording I took with the microphone about a foot away (12")

 

If there is anything that anyone can do, please let me know!

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Doesn't sound abnormally loud or distorted to me.

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4 minutes ago, sazrocks said:

Doesn't sound abnormally loud or distorted to me.

 

It isn't usually that loud though, it used to be little more quiet.

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Maybe you moved closer to it, or you move it closer to you, or changed the volume on something (I assume there's many dials along the path from diaphragm to discord), or you started talking louder without noticing?  I don't know of a way that a mic could break that would increase its volume so I can't imagine it's a defect.  Potentially there could be a flaw in your interface though.

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5 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Maybe you moved closer to it, or you move it closer to you, or changed the volume on something (I assume there's many dials along the path from diaphragm to discord), or you started talking louder without noticing?  I don't know of a way that a mic could break that would increase its volume so I can't imagine it's a defect.  Potentially there could be a flaw in your interface though.

The mic seems to be picking up background noise a lot more than it used to. At first, you couldn't even hear background noise, now it's very noticeable even though I never moved it? I honestly don't know, but it definitely got louder somehow.

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It sounds like you microphone's gain was increased somehow. If you didn't mess with your interface then try checking the Windows Sound Settings for the microphone and see if anything in there changed.

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It could be windows or discord(if you use that)

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