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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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Actually the issue with the automatic mic level adjustment is gone for me. I didn't change anything but Teams does not seem to interfere with my settings anymore. Or the issue where the level gets set to 0 is fixed.
That leaves the echoing in setups with speakers... But this is a story for another time.
I bet Microsoft doesn't use their own tools in this way. Otherwise, they would realize very quickly that their perhaps so great perceived feature causes huge problems. Eat your own dogfood!
Much worse: They provide a support channel where obviously no employee is reading. If I'm wrong, it suggests that Microsoft simply doesn't care if their tools are usable or not. the main thing is that the money rolls in.
Thank you soooo much... it really was about giving up hope that i would be able to use my microphone within Teams!!
I am having this same issue. The solution provided does not solves the issue. The gain slider still randomly moves from approximately 35 to 55 even without allowing applications to take exclusive control. This solution DID work momentarily. However, as soon as Teams was closed and reopened on the machine the problem returned and could no longer be solved by this fix suggestion.
This does not seem to happen on my Mac only on my PC. This seems to be a Microsoft bug. Is there an eta on a fix?
Take a look at the instructions a bit more. The only thing that should use cable output is microsoft teams. Leave your normal headphones as the defualt playback device in sounds and in teams.