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beizs
Brass Contributor
Apr 02, 2020
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Disable Microphone Auto Adjustment

My microphone is a USB Blue Spark. The mic itself has gain controls, and in Windows (10), it needs to be set to 50% or less, otherwise it starts to clip like crazy (50% is essentially baseline, below...
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  • chornsec's avatar
    chornsec
    Jul 06, 2020

    Workaround on macOS: create an aggregate device to "mask" the gain settings from Teams.

    Steps:

    1. Open 'Audio MIDI Setup' application
    2. In the left pane, click + symbol and choose Create Aggregate Device
    3. Ensure that the new aggregate device is selected in the left pane
    4. In the main window area, select the 'Use' checkbox for your real input device
    5. Select the real input device from the left pane and set the Master Stream input gain correctly
    5. Optionally rename the newly created aggregate device by clicking its entry in the left pane
    6. Quit & restart Teams application
    7. In Teams, choose the newly created aggregate device as the microphone device

    Because the aggregate device does not have a gain setting, Teams cannot f* it up.

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mbaker-wv
Copper Contributor
Jan 05, 2021

beizs 

 

I found a fix for my system

under sound settings > Microphone Properties > Advanced Tab uncheck the "Allow Application to take exclusive control of this device"

 

mbaker-wv

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CastyMcBoozer
Copper Contributor
Feb 08, 2021

mbaker-wv Settings in the app?  Settings in Windows?  Settings in macOS?  

There is no "Microphone Properties" in either Windows 10 Settings or in the Teams application. I don't have my Macbook with me at the moment.  

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