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dadawon

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Registered: 2025-02-20

Posts: 4

Mic is super low and nobody can hear what i'm saying

Im running pipewire and everything works besides the mic, but the mic is still being picked up as plugged in. I speak into the microphone and nothing is being picked up, but when i tap on the microphone it's picking up on that. Below i will list all the things I have done to attempt to fix this. Also im on a desktop not a laptop there is no intergrated mic and im just trying to record a vid for obs.

WHAT I HAVE DONE:

- unlocking the two channels and setting right to 0 and left to 100% .. Still nothing and yes it is set as default option
- mic is plugged into the mic in jack on motherboard IO tried L-out as well still nothing but mic is recognized

Anybody ever have this issue? or is my mic just a POS lol  : )

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 62,901

Re: Mic is super low and nobody can hear what i'm saying

amixer -Dhw:0

There's typically some "mic boost" feature, maybe it's not picked up by pipewire or whatever mixer you're using?

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