My mic is geh!

[Jebus]

K, problem:
Mic is killing sound of other people when in-game on TF2. Mic works fine in L4D2, Mumble, and Ventrilo.

Question:
What can be done to correct this problem or does anyone have any ideas?

[Bonemasher]

I've noticed a bunch of peoples mics that do this, where they talk and all the sound of the game disapears. Don't really know what causes it.

If I had to take a random stab I'd say to turn off mic boost maybe.

Did a quick google search and couldnt find any solutions, but a couple people have the problem, the one thing that kept popping up was 64 bit windows and sound blaster audigy.

Best bet would be to find a friend with a mic and swap it out just to see if it is the mic itself or something else.

[stewlounse]

I think Mumble automatically puts you at the right mic level so it will sound the same regardless of mic boost. So yeah it sounds like your recording level/mic boost may be up too much for in-game... if it is cutting others' sound out, I would say it is clipping over the top and needs to be turned down some.

[Zero Hour]

Well if they're using vista/win7 you might want to check out what the sound stack option is set at. It will automatically mute/reduce the volume of the other sounds while talking.

here go to control panel -> sound options -> communications
I have 'Do nothing', since I do not want anything to be muted (except phil, but sadly MS hasn't came out with that option yet :/ I'm sure they have a team dedicated days/nights to get this feature)

[themuddaload]

^ didnt know i spammed the mic that bad, sorry.

[[K9] Raja]

I have the same problem, Some users report that they are able
to hear me clearly and some say i sound static and some just curse at
me and tell me to STFU coz i am killing their ears or their sounds in the game.
I have 3 different mics, 2 of them attached to headphones and one is with out
a headphone. None i have tried so far which is with out problems.
Could it be my configs/settings?? Or maybe other peoples settings?? I have integrated sound card.
Any suggestions??

[Cosmic_Shame]

why Nsy, Stew, and Darklight talk sometimes my ping jumps from normal to over 600, i dont know why, they basically cause my gameplay to go bleh

[elninio]

If you are using mumble for voice, try turning off the voice controls ingame desable voice it might help.

[stewlounse]

The first thing everyone should do is run the Audio setup wizard thing. It will adjust all your volumes...just follow through the steps.

[[K9] Raja]

The first thing everyone should do is run the Audio setup wizard thing. It will adjust all your volumes...just follow through the steps.

I will give it a shot, Thanks a lot.
If this fails i might try to get a USB mic.
Maybe its my sound card coz i have 3 mics and all of
them r giving similar issues.