Long time Windows mic static noise (desperate for solutions)

Gandek · June 23, 2020

Been having issues with my mic FOREVER according to my teammates in-game I always have a insane amount of static noise in the background. I have used 4 different mics by now started with a dedicated Blue Snowball which I gave away to a friend and moved on to a Steelseries 9H --> Steelseries Arctis 7 --> Currently have a Razer Kraken 2019 headset

This happened on my old system as well, I recently upgraded basically my entire PC besides the HDD. Windows was installed clean once to a new SSD. I only have this mic static issue in-game on steam games (according to mates) and when I'm listening back to it on windows sounds settings. It doesn't happen however when I'm listening back to it on chrome I'm using this site https://online-voice-recorder.com/ it doesn't pick up any static and only picks up a tiny bit of background noise considering my room fans are spinning and the windows are open I'd say thats pretty good and lives up to Razers claims. It's pretty much useless though if I can't get it to work properly on steam/windows. There used to be more advanced settings on steam back in the day for mic control if I remember correctly but that menu has been removed

Gandek · June 23, 2020

Just plugged in the Arctis 7 and same exact results

Gandek · June 24, 2020

Also read that it could be some sort of grounding problem however it doesn't get any better if I touch the case, and like I said the issue doesn't occur when recording in chrome using that site.