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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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Michael Troelsen
Copper Contributor
Jul 19, 2021

This should be fixed in the latest version of teams 1.4.00.16575 with the introduction of automatically adjust mic sensitivity.

 

 

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Chopo127
Copper Contributor
Aug 26, 2023

For me that option doesn't even exist... Michael Troelsen 

 

 

 

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    tjhallum
    Copper Contributor
    Feb 16, 2024

    Chopo127, like you, I also do not have that toggle.

     

    Apparently, back in 2021, Microsoft added a helpful toggle for disabling automatic volume sensitivity adjustment...and it seems they've since deleted that toggle from the UI 🤷‍.

     

    What some people say is supposed to be in MS Teams' device settings:

     

    What's actually available in my device settings within MS Teams:

     

    As you can, I don't have a toggle to disable "Automatically adjust mic sensitivity."

     

    I'm using the latest version of MS Teams available:

     

    This is absolutely infuriating!!! I have a studio-grade XLR mic and USB audio interface that sounds great in every other app, but MS Teams makes me sound like trash on work calls. At the beginning of a call, it always jacks the sensitivity of my mic up to almost 100%, and then for the first ~5-10 seconds when I start to speak it blows out the eardrums of everyone else on the call. This is completely crazy and fixing it needs to be elevated to priority #1 for the MS Teams developers.

     

     

     

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      tjhallum
      Copper Contributor
      Feb 16, 2024

      OK...I've figured it out.

       

      I was using the "latest version" of "Microsoft Teams classic." Here's what that looks like in my start menu:


      As it turns out, there's a "New Microsoft Teams":

       

      You can download the "new" Teams app at this URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/download-app

       

      After installing the "new" Teams app, you can verify that you're using the "new" Teams by checking here in the Teams UI:

       

      And, as you can see, within the "new" Teams app, I can verify that I'm in fact using "New Teams," and - most critically - I finally have the "Automatically adjust mic sensitivity" toggle...which I promptly set to the "off" position.

       

      I hope this helps someone else not go through the pain I've been through with this!

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