usb mic boost

[Sammy]

Yup that old old problem. Read everything I could. Tried everything I could. I just cant get it to high enough to talk in cod4. Pretty sure it works fine in ts tho. Any ideas?

[TheHammer]

get a stiff drink

[Sammy]

I dont drink the hard stuff and too early for that anyways. But maybe something before dinner.

 

Anyways, am I wrong and would USB audio also be processed through the sound card? The budget Asus model designed more for headphones, which I had before but wasnt pci-e, is currently $25 with rebate so a pretty good deal. So will probably pick it up again anyways since I was happy with it.

[Slackernet]

Are the audio drivers from the manufacturer for the board installled ? windows sometimes like to use generic stuff just so it works..windows never said it would work well LOL. windows generic drivers for the most part suck

 

if the right drivers are installed go into the audio settings first and see of the usb is listed as an input device and adjust the volume there. once that is set then try to adjust the volume in the applications

[Sammy]

For usb 1-2 there are no mb drivers. Just usb 3. Yea the mic audio level is cranked all the way up to 100. Which in itself is unusual. There is no mic boost in software but the headphones does have a booster setting of its own.

[Slackernet]

Normally it usually doesn't matter what usb you plug into..it usually just has to be recognized by the audio software as an input so it then can be adjusted....whats was the board model you went with again ?

 

 

 

with the new boards getting better audio chips and bios there may be audio settings to enable in the bios itself

Edited April 19, 2016 by Slackernet

[Sammy]

There is a cod4 config setting about a mic scalar. Will see what that does when I bump it up. I hope that would mean my mic, not everyone elses voices. They are sometimes too loud as it is.

[Elmo]

go to your control panel... select sound...on the sound panel... select recording... click on your green check marked microphone... in microphone properties click on levels... then on the slide bar advance the level to 100% see if that helps! in the same panel you can click on listen and you can hear your feed back! just click on listen to device... pick a plackback through this device(usually whatever your headphones are called!) then click apply at the bottom of the box or window! this should help with your mic issue!

[Sammy]

Yup did all that also. All the usual things. However I also suspect its application specific. But I dont know what I did before to get it to work.

 

One of the things, suggested here and there, is to lower the bitrate for the mic but it is greyed out. It is fixed on dvd 2-chan quality and I cant change it. Whatever that is. "shared' audio. Just output. But from what I read these days its not really used much anymore. Last time however, with the card, I did have onboard audio disabled. I also dont know, if that is done, it means the usb audio is disabled as well. Just the regular minijacks.

[Sammy]

Seems in the game its working now. Maybe the config setting did it for cod4 only.

[TheDrimpXI]

disable all other sound devices

[EDD THE DUCK]

Yup that old old problem. Read everything I could. Tried everything I could. I just cant get it to high enough to talk in cod4. Pretty sure it works fine in ts tho. Any ideas?

I am having same problem . Tried everything but nothing seems to work . TS volume is fine but not on COD 4

[Sammy]

In your cod4 config look for the setting about mic scalar. Normally it is set at 1. Bump it up to 2, which is the max. and see what happens. I dont know if that took care of my particular problem or if it was something else I screwed around with and it suddenly worked.

 

Some other realtek settings to check out.

 

Mute internal output device when an external headphone is plugged in (on)

Make internal and external output devices playback two different audio streams simultaneously (off)

 

Tie up same type of input jacks, i e line-in or microphone, as an input device (on)

separate all input jacks as independent input devices (off)

[Mule]

There is a cod4 config setting about a mic scalar. Will see what that does when I bump it up. I hope that would mean my mic, not everyone elses voices. They are sometimes too loud as it is.

You talking about @@wildthing LMAO HeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaW!

[Bazza]

my headphones are plugged into to top ports, which gives me a wind assisted noise apparently? the back ones don't work on the mic, and usb is ok, but the usb adapter I got for 3 quid is hiding from me anyway atm, so that is moot. So unless I buy a new set with a usb, you can all listen to my wind and lump it

[PainKiller]

I'm having the same issues with my USB headset. Got the current drivers for it, tried all the usual stuff as well. It works fine for Skype, TeamSpeak and Steam but NOT for CoD which is very annoying.

[Sammy]

This is the config setting. You could also likely do it in your console. Bump it up to 2 and see what happens. Might help. Might not do anything.

 

seta winvoice_mic_scaler "2"

[EDD THE DUCK]

Will give it a try