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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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Seonglae
Copper Contributor
Aug 30, 2021
This is really annoying
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    MichelLisman
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 15, 2021

    Agreed. And it should not auto-adjust through system properties for sound either, it should process + adjust within the program itself.

     

    I've set up my studio microphone to have an exact range just below the 0dB mark (carefully set up with Audacity and the replay gain plugins), which Teams interprets as "let's turn that way down on a system-wide level". Which also affects the mic being used in other meeting software (yes, Teams is not the only one..) and in the streams I host. So I'm glad that the option is finally in the UI, not so glad that if actually would want to use it, it affects volume system-wide instead of only the Teams-application.

     

    Seonglae 

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