Post by tallcat on Jan 4, 2022 0:23:53 GMT -5
Symptoms: My discord had been running okay for a while. Recently, I started getting feedback my mic volume was low. I tinkered with it but I couldn't raise my mic volume any higher. I gave up on it and opted just to talk louder. A week passes and suddenly my audio volume on my headset dips down to but a fraction of the previous output, I could barely make out voice comms.
Attempts to remedy: I made sure my headset volume was maxed, discord volumes were maxed in Voice And Video, my system volumes were maxed, I restarted discord twice, I restarted my PC, restarted discord again, unplugged my headset and plugged it back in, tested it with a music file and the audio was fine so I knew the headset was working, but nothing seemed to fix my problem specifically with discord. I even messed around with audio enhancements and legacy settings in discord but nada.
Working solution: On Win10, I right clicked on the speaker/sound icon in my taskbar, then opened Volume Mixer which controls volumes at the application level. As it turns out, somehow the discord app volume settings got moved to 2! I overlooked this window because I foolishly thought the main system Sounds window would have been the priority assignment or at least the settings within discord itself, and would have overrode anything at the application level. After I upped it to a higher level, it has fixed both my audio and my mic volumes. I did get a discord update around the time all this started happening, I'd be willing to bet it's a bug with the update and erroneously edited the app-level volume in Sound Mixer.
Regardless, mentioning it here in case anyone else ever has similar problems.
Attempts to remedy: I made sure my headset volume was maxed, discord volumes were maxed in Voice And Video, my system volumes were maxed, I restarted discord twice, I restarted my PC, restarted discord again, unplugged my headset and plugged it back in, tested it with a music file and the audio was fine so I knew the headset was working, but nothing seemed to fix my problem specifically with discord. I even messed around with audio enhancements and legacy settings in discord but nada.
Working solution: On Win10, I right clicked on the speaker/sound icon in my taskbar, then opened Volume Mixer which controls volumes at the application level. As it turns out, somehow the discord app volume settings got moved to 2! I overlooked this window because I foolishly thought the main system Sounds window would have been the priority assignment or at least the settings within discord itself, and would have overrode anything at the application level. After I upped it to a higher level, it has fixed both my audio and my mic volumes. I did get a discord update around the time all this started happening, I'd be willing to bet it's a bug with the update and erroneously edited the app-level volume in Sound Mixer.
Regardless, mentioning it here in case anyone else ever has similar problems.