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
    2021-03-03T09:59:55+00:00

    One the main features of Teams is voice communication. But it fails on many instances. This is just another issue that has existed in previous solutions (like Skype) and was obviously transported over to Teams. I DONT'T LIKE ANY SOFTWARE TO MESS WITH MY OS SETTINGS! PERIOD! Unless I install a software to do exactly that. Teams is not the only voice comm software I use and the other products rely on steady OS settings.

    So first of all make this control not OS but only Teams wide. But even then, please give more experienced users the option to setup for their hardware. There is such a big variety of hardware that you can't be trusting a single algorithm to control the audio setup for "best quality". Teams reduces my mic volume to 0 if not on call... why?

    And sorry, but using a different software to make up for the basics that MS can't provide in Teams is not going to help at all. I will rather complain about this everywhere again and again until it is fixed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-02-11T19:57:48+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.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-01-01T12:21:59+00:00

    Hi,

    I have a similar problem where Rudy's (mmsys.cpl) solution doesn't work for me.  I've narrowed the problem down to the levels being reduced to zero when the (Teams) Device Settings panel is opened.

    The repro steps on my machine are:

    • While in a Teams call
    • Open run mmsys.cpl
    • Click on Recording tab
    • Hit Properties button for target mic (Rode Podcaster in my case) + Levels tab
    • Note Levels slider is set to about 70
    • Leaving open, return to Teams
    • Open More options / Device Settings
    • Observe levels in open dialog has now been adjusted down to zero (hovers around 0-6)

    So the workaround seems to be don't open device settings in a call which will lead to some challenging meetings :(

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-11-05T21:01:01+00:00

    I also have the same problem and its annoying for me and for those who lisen!

     Its a huge problem and easy to fix! Don't ignore us!

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-09-18T17:06:20+00:00

    Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot working at all!!!!

    Fix it now!!

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