Stopping the microphone from automatically adjusting level

Anonymous
2020-03-26T14:52:20+00:00

Every time I run a meeting in the Teams app, my microphone level automatically gets set to 100%. 

I have set the communications option in the control panel to do nothing and there appears to be no option in the app to stop it from doing this. I have a sensitive microphone that requires low gain - this is very frustrating as I am using it to teach lessons remotely.

Any ideas?

Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams for education | Meetings and calls | Other

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-02-12T13:22:43+00:00

    Is Microsoft even thinking of fixing this? Do they care?

    If it's not an issue at Microsoft, probably not. Just ran into this problem today, but the adverse. My mic shoots straight to 1% when I open Teams, no one can hear me. When I have my sound settings up, I slide it back to 100% (I have it set up to work well at 100%) and then it immediately shoots back down to 1%. Fantastic.

    Same here. Blue snowball, gets pushed to 0% gain automaticly. Does not matter if I disable program access to hardware or disable noice cancel in teams. It really sucks!

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-10T18:48:36+00:00

    This Teams mic volume control behavior is simply preposterous!

    I just bought a brand new USB mic to upgrade the rather poor audio quality when using the built-in mic of my laptop during Teams meetings.

    The USB mic is a clear improvement when testing it with some basic recording software like Audacity, but completely useless for use in Teams: mic level is reduced to 1%, basically completely muting the mic...

    As the USB mic is a higher quality podcast type of mic, it is far more sensitive than the typical built-in mic, so I guess Teams somehow feels the need to dial the volume all the way down because the mic (which doesn't have any kind of noise suppression built in) is picking up way more sounds than a built-in mic does.

    Teams settings really should include some sensitivity dials to allow users to finetune to different mics rather than only provide automatic mic leveling clearly "optimized" for poor quality built-in mics, typically already including some sort of noise suppression.

    I have the same "shift to 1%" behavior with a new RODE Mini USB Microphone.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-02-08T21:27:23+00:00

    I found this does not work. Somehow, teams checks this option when you run it an it take control of the mic again. An expensive high quality mic cannot be use in Teams as a result. It works absolutely fine in Zoom! Very annoying.

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-02-04T21:42:38+00:00

    CAN YOU PLEASE FIX THIS BUG!!!

    This thread is damn old, and still totally annoying!

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-01-26T23:08:22+00:00

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