Mic too quiet in Discord

Trippsy · September 10, 2020

I have a Blue Spark SL, Focusrite Solo with gain at 50%, Phantom power turned on, input volume set to max in Discord, and my friends have me set to 200% in VC. Most people say im too quiet in Discord. No problems in Audacity or Steam calls its only Discord.

Any ideas?

eeeee1 · September 10, 2020

make sure that your desired microphone is selected?

GhostRoadieBL · September 10, 2020

Right click the sound/volume icon for windows and go to sound settings, then sound control panel on the right side (or bottom). Double-click on your recording device and then click on the Levels tab and make sure it's at 100. Then in the Advanced tab and make sure it's not in Exclusive Mode

after that go into discord to the voice and video settings, see if you have auto input sensitivity on or if the Blue has taken over control of that, and it's not on something like push to talk without a button setup and that you have the right mic set in the top right and not something like a webcam mic.

you can also do a mic input check there and see if it's the mic to discord on your local side or discord to your friends

Trippsy · September 10, 2020

16 minutes ago, eeeee1 said:

make sure that your desired microphone is selected?

Yes it is.

16 minutes ago, GhostRoadieBL said:

Right click the sound/volume icon for windows and go to sound settings, then sound control panel on the right side (or bottom). Double-click on your recording device and then click on the Levels tab and make sure it's at 100. Then in the Advanced tab and make sure it's not in Exclusive Mode

after that go into discord to the voice and video settings, see if you have auto input sensitivity on or if the Blue has taken over control of that, and it's not on something like push to talk without a button setup and that you have the right mic set in the top right and not something like a webcam mic.

you can also do a mic input check there and see if it's the mic to discord on your local side or discord to your friends

Found that Exclusive mode was on and turned it off which helped.

17 minutes ago, WI-FIultrasnoop said:

You may just have to get closer to the mic if possible, go through mic setting in discord and turn off noise cancellation/noise reduction, change the audio mode (citation needed). I'm not sure what else.

Turned off Noise Reduction and it is better now.