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Hi,
Whenever an application is using my microphone, all the audio that plays gets suppressed and muffled and nearly quiet, there was an option to disable this before, but I just don't know how to disable it.
Disabling the options such as Audio Enhancements will make it normal for around 2 seconds before it becomes muffled again.
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Hi, I've been searching the whole web to find a solution for this musicians problem, found nothing. I just don't understand why Microsoft doesn't help us with this issue.
There are millions of musicians in this world working with Zoom etc..., and windows 11 mutes them all. Is there somebody in this company working on it?
Yeah - I'm getting the same but through Google Chrome - Edge is working fine but don't want to use that
This sounds very similar to what I'm experiencing, attempting to play flute over a Skype call. I have the same problem in Zoom. All sound of the flute is cut out, only my voice can be heard. I have changed the settings in the Communications tab to 'Do Nothing' but it makes no difference.
I believe I also experienced this problem today.
I was trying to record a choir rehearsal using Audacity from a 2-channel 48kHz USB audio interface, with all "audio enhancements" turned off and the communications tab option set to "do nothing", Windows 11 did a remarkably good job of filtering out all the music and singing, leaving only speech.
I double-checked all the settings, tried re-enabling and then re-disabling audio enhancements, including specifically noise reduction, disabled and enabled "allow exclusive access", reinstalled the audio driver, switched between DirectSound and MME and back again, and tried another audio device. I checked to ensure no other software was potentially modifying audio settings or accessing the any audio devices.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, would allow me to record raw, unfiltered audio. Weird.
Hello Lenka,
I've tried both methods you have told me, though whenever a desktop app or external app (such as Discord or Audacity) uses my microphone, it seems all application audio gets suppressed still, no matter if it is set to "Do nothing".
