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So about 2 weeks ago I purchased a ModMic 4 to go along with my ATH-m50xs, and after installing the modmic with my headphones, I realised that the audio quality of the mic was pretty terrible and soon after figured the reason for this was my motherboards crappy onboard audio. So I then bought an Asus Xonar DGX soundcard and it completely fixed the sound problems and it sounds great now. The only problem now, is that while my microphone is on I can hear myself through my headphones. I looked up this issue and didn't find anything specific for the modmic but the main "fix" was to go into recording devices select the microphone, select the "Listen" tab then uncheck "Listen to this device" and then its seems to fix the problem, but this is not the case for me. I still have the problem and it is really bugging me to have mute my microphone when I'm not speaking on Skype or in-game to not hear myself breathing. 

 

If anyone has any advice or a way to fix my issue it would be greatly appreciated as this is really bugging me.

 

EDIT* This was solved by uninstalling the current Asus drivers and installing and older version of the drivers.

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Are you like 100% sure it's not echo from someone else in your Skype call or something?

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Are you like 100% sure it's not echo from someone else in your Skype call or something?

100% sure, it also occurs when I'm just using my computer with my microphone on.

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I had this issue a few years back, turned out to be a driver issue, uninstall all drivers in device manager that relate to audio (onboard, 3rd party device) restart the pc and then download all the new driver versions. This worked for me (Asus MOBO / TurtleBeach X12 Headset)

 

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In the Windows Sound Mixer there is a option for listening to yourself... That's the only way it will be doing this.

Please spend as much time writing your question, as you want me to spend responding to it.  Take some time, and explain your issue, please!

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Also check this.

 

Go to: Sound>Playback>(Select speakers/headphones)>Properties>Levels

 

If you see a mic volume in there click on the sound button to mute it.  I used this method to get rid of the sound I was hearing from my mic on my headset.

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Make sure this is unchecked:

 

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There is a sidetone/listen to yourself option, turn it off :D

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Make sure this is unchecked:

 

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Like I said in my original post it is unchecked and I can still hear myself.

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Like I said in my original post it is unchecked and I can still hear myself.

 

Do you have the drivers installed for your sound card is there an option there for it?

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Do you have the drivers installed for your sound card is there an option there for it?

Yes I do have the drivers installed, when installing them there was no option for listening to yourself, and the program that Asus gives you "Asus Xonar DGX Audio Center" has no option that I can find atleast,

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Yes I do have the drivers installed, when installing them there was no option for listening to yourself, and the program that Asus gives you "Asus Xonar DGX Audio Center" has no option that I can find atleast,

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I followed your easy to understand steps up until step 6 where under the "Levels" tab I only have a slider for "Volume Control".

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I followed your easy to understand steps up until step 6 where under the "Levels" tab I only have a slider for "Volume Control".

 

You should find same in soundcard audio settings. I have it with Creatives software.

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You should find same in soundcard audio settings. I have it with Creatives software.

I can't find it anywhere in my soundcard's audio software.

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I actualy liked it when I had my turtal beach headphones as they had monitor funtionality. Like how performers have those speakers on the floor pointing at them. I perfer it to hearing my voise leak into the headset as I will talk louder so my voice sounds right to me. Didn't realize you could implement it via software although it make sense that you can :)

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So about 2 weeks ago I purchased a ModMic 4 to go along with my ATH-m50xs, and after installing the modmic with my headphones, I realised that the audio quality of the mic was pretty terrible and soon after figured the reason for this was my motherboards crappy onboard audio. So I then bought an Asus Xonar DGX soundcard and it completely fixed the sound problems and it sounds great now. The only problem now, is that while my microphone is on I can hear myself through my headphones. I looked up this issue and didn't find anything specific for the modmic but the main "fix" was to go into recording devices select the microphone, select the "Listen" tab then uncheck "Listen to this device" and then its seems to fix the problem, but this is not the case for me. I still have the problem and it is really bugging me to have mute my microphone when I'm not speaking on Skype or in-game to not hear myself breathing.

If anyone has any advice or a way to fix my issue it would be greatly appreciated as this is really bugging me.

ya that happened to me to I just reinstalled mr drivers and was fine

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