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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?
Additional meeting and call-related features and issues within Microsoft Teams for Education
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Hello there.. this is the only way I found to fix the problem.. .. it works..
https://sysadmin-central.com/2020/08/05/microsoft-teams-fix-auto-adjusting-microphone-audio/
I also have this problem. This only occurs with my USB Microphones (Tonor TC-777 & CMTECK). Using ThinkPad X1 Extreme Gen 1 with Thunderbolt 3 Dock. I have to uninstall and reinstall the VB Cable Virtual application every time I reattach to the dock to get the work around to work. The onboard Mics work fine (when I use it as a laptop) but when at my dock, I don't have the lid open. When docked I also have a 1080p webcam that has a pretty bad Mic, and I use that in a pinch when the Tonor / VB Cable isn't working.
The Mic controls in Teams and Windows 10 are awful. This needs to get resolved. The Skype team has already fixed this issue in the past. Please implement the same fix. I use slack, discord, zoom, webex, gotomeeting, turbo meeting, google hangouts (now google meet) and they all work fine with direct connections to the Tonor TC-777. Only Microsoft Teams has a problem where it sets the Mic level to 1-3 automagically and then I, as the administrator on the computer, cannot over ride that value. I move it to 100, it goes right back down. People can only hear me when I'm holding the level up with my mouse... does not permit me to do my work very well while on a call with customers.
Very disappointed that this is still an issue. Please fix this ASAP. I've voted for this issue on the Teams site as well.
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!
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.