Hot answers tagged microphone
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Right-click on the volume thing in your taskbar, and select "recording devices".
This will open a dialog box with four tabs. Make sure the second tab "Recording" is selected. There you should see your microphone, with a bar showing if it is receiving sound or not. You can also check its properties here.
If your system allows "Monitoring" that will echo the ...
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Just found a solution for this:
First, Close your browser or any other programs that are using your
microphone.
Open Regedit Navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google
Talk Plugin]
In this section it should have a string value named "audio-flags" with
a value of 3
Change this value to one so it reads like "audio-flags"="1" ...
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In my Windows 7, there is a "Stereo Mix" in recording devices. Just choose that as default recording device and/or "default communicating device"(I don't know the exact name; it's in the context menu). Then any program which uses this device will catch what you can hear through the speakers.
In Windows XP it should be the same name. However, it depends on ...
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TRS and TRRS Jacks
I'm afraid you won't be able to fix the problem by software. There are two types of jacks:
Those headsets have a three-way jack, with a tip, two rings and a sleeve (left, right and microphone plus a ground - middle in the image). Those are called TRRS.
Standard headphones uses only two channels, i.e. tip and ring (for stereo, left in ...
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While the application does not have a built in keyboard shortcut for it you can add one using the Keyboard Shortcuts feature in the Keyboard Preference Pane in System Preferences.
Open System Preferences
Open Keyboard
Change to the Keyboard Shortcuts section (If using Snow Leopard click Application Shortcuts on the left side)
Press the '+' button.
Select ...
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In Windows 7:
1) Right click on the speaker icon in your system tray (bottom right of your screen). Go to recording devices.
2) Locate your microphone in the list. I am assuming it is not disabled as you mentioned examples of it working previously. Right click, go to properties.
3) Switch to the "Listen" tab, check off "Listen to this device". While ...
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The Mac Mini's line-in port is a line-level input. That means it's not providing any power to the device, so an unpowered computer mic is not going to work. You need something to pull the mic-level input of the mic up to line-level, like a mixer or certain types of powered mics.
Alternatively, you can use something like the iMic, or any USB mic/headset ...
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sndpeek
No idea if this is any use for you - it's Open Source:
http://soundlab.cs.princeton.edu/software/sndpeek/
sndpeek is just what it sounds (and looks) like:
real-time 3D animated display/playback
can use mic-input or wav/aiff/snd/raw/mat file (with playback)
time-domain waveform
FFT magnitude spectrum
3D waterfall plot
lissajous! (interchannel ...
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Bad grounding affecting the analog circuitry in the microphone-preamp-ADC portion which then gets encoded in the digital signal sent to the computer.
Microphones tend to have ground shielding. Having it connected to the computer guarantees the integrity of that shield. Having it plugged into a hub, especially a cheap one doesn't guarantee that you have a ...
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Your operating system does not have anything to do with that.
What counts is what your interface can do. The thing you plug your microphone into. Where this interface gets its power from is not important here. Maybe it's something like this:
Computer → USB power → Audio Interface → Phantom Power → Microphone
But it could also be like this:
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I am unsure exactly what you mean, however, if you are saying that what you say in to your microphone is coming out of the speakers then do the following:
Right click on the audio icon near the clock.
Click "Recording Devices"
Double click on your microphone Device.
Click the "Listen" tab.
make sure that "Listen to this device" is unchecked.
If you are ...
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A simpler approach to your problem might be just to record your speakers.
To record anything that comes out of your speakers:
Right-click the volume icon and choose "Recording devices".
If you don't see "stereo mix": Right-click somewhere in the white
area of the recording box, and select "Show Disabled Devices".
If you now see "Stereo Mix": Right-click ...
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I use the following command (found at: http://efreedom.com/Question/3-127276/Play-Mic-Speakers-Ubuntu-Karmic):
pacat -r --latency-msec=1 -d alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo | pacat -p --latency-msec=1 -d alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Where:
alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo is your input device
...
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Have a look at this page on VLC remote
Their program let's you control VLC over a network.
In regular VLC you can go to the File menu, choose Open Capture Device. Under the Direct Show tab, select the Audio Device Name from the drop down menu. Your device should show up in this menu. If not, check your microphone connection or click the Refresh List ...
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You should be able to find an adapter that has two plugs for your computer.
Here's one I found by googling, but I can't vouch for the site myself:
http://www.showmecables.com/viewItem.asp?idProduct=8183#
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Usually this isn't a problem, particularly if you use push to talk rather than voice activated. Feedback may be an issue if you have the mic a long way away (and hence high levels on it to compensate), but i've used the mic from a cheap ($1) headset laying on my desk for the last few years after my old mic (a full studio boom mic) broke, and apart from a ...
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That model computer on Acer's website says that it has a webcam, which means it will also have a microphone that you can configure in Skype or whatever other program you want.
Windows 7
Control Panel
Hardware and Sound
Manage Audio Devices
Recording Tab
Set the Microphone device to whatever is tied to your webcam, to your default communication device.
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Enable it in device manager (that is, assuming you're on Windows).
Click Start (windows icon) right click on my Computer and select manage.
From the window on the left, click device manager.
(Or: click Start button, write 'device' in the Search area, then select 'Device Manager')
Locate your microphone in the list, right click on it and enable.
EDIT
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It may be an issue with Windows 7s inbuilt feature in the operating system to reduce the volume for a phone call or other VOIP applications. Follow the below instruction to see if this is the cause of the problem.
Windows 7 help for resolving volume issue
Click on Start, then click on Control panel and then on Sound. A sound window will appear. Windows 7 ...
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First off, let's rule out the headset. Plug the headset directly into the motherboard.
Personally, I don't think that the monitor works in the way you are expecting it to. I'm not sure, but I don't know if HDMI is enough of an audio-out for the monitor to send it back to the PC, or if the PC knows what to do with the audio it's sending back, as video ...
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This will not work. 'Stereo mix' is a virtual recording device that uses the output of your sound card as its signal, so any audio playing on your computer can be captured from that recording device. Although this feature is often used to record 'what I'm hearing', it requires that what you're hearing originated from your sound card. In this setup, a ...
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I have a Plantronics Calisto B70 Bluetooth headset that came with Dragon Naturally Speaking (Amazon.com: Dragon NaturallySpeaking Premium 11 Bluetooth).
If I try using sound recorder, I can hear some crackling noise as well as my voice, so I don't think the quality is great.
One time, I was able to get it working 99% accurately with DNS, but since then I ...
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It seems like the microphone is the problem. I would plug in a better mic.
You could buy a small clip-on microphone or a headset with a built-in mic.
There are really cheap ones available, and they might still be better than you laptop mic, if only for the fact that they would be closer to your mouth.
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The global fix for this issue (i.e. not a piped solution running in the foreground) is more or less described in the article linked from Archon, but I keep forgetting and ending up back at this page so I'll provide a summary:
pactl load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1
This command will load the loopback module and enable global loopback of all ...
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See if this Samson article helps:
Using the Samson USB Microphones with Windows Vista.
It says:
When first connected, the microphone
gain setting will be rather minimal,
and will need to be turned up.
To do that, go into Control Panel -> Sound, Levels tab, which sets the computer controlled gain or mutes the microphone:
EDIT
Given that the ...
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When Skype is focused, Command+Shift+M toggles the microphone.
Ctrl+Alt+Command+ ↑ also mutes the microphone for me, and works globally.
However, it's not a toggle; as noted below, it switches to Push To Talk mode, in which the mic is muted by default but will be unmuted as long as Ctrl+Alt+Command+ ↑ is pressed.
I'm on OS X 10.8, with the ...
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You might be able to use something like Adobe Audition to do frequency space editing and remove the beep. This lets you edit at the frequency level so you could mute just the part of the spectrum that the beep is on.
Are you using the built-in microphone jack? If so, I suspect that the beep is coming from your hard drive and a poorly designed motherboard ...
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When redirecting microphone output over RDP 7.0, it must be sent to another Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate machine. This comment on the Windows 7 blog has more info.
If you'd like to send microphone output to XP over RDP, check out Remote Sound or Sound over RDP. Both solutions are shareware, try before you buy.
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Plug in the mic to the mic jack :)
Run sndrec32.exe (or Start Menu -> Programs -> Accessories -> Entertainment -> Sound Recorder). Go to Edit -> Properties. Make sure you have the right device selected in "Sound Recording" (if you don't know which one to pick, try them all, or see if one makes sense). Hit the Volume button and make sure nothing's muted. ...
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You'll also want to check the selected audio input device and enable the microphone +20dB Boost if necessary...
Double click the Sound icon in the system bar next to the clock to bring up the Volume Mixer. To enable the +20dB boost is annoyingly dependant on your sound card. You may have an option for the microphone on the window by default as below. If ...
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