Boost Your Mic Volume for Discord

While you are chatting with your friends on Discord, suddenly your friends would mention that they cannot hear you clearly. This is quite frustrating especially when you are discussing something important. There are many possible reasons as to why this could happen. One possible reason is that you have a mic issue. Do not worry as this could easily be fixed. Just read further and learn what are the possible ways you could do to solve this issue.

As mentioned earlier, one reason as to why you cannot be heard on Discord by anyone you are talking to is due to your mic not picking up your voice. This is due to your mic’s sensitivity is set to low. Hence, your mic will not be able to pic up any voice activity as it is supposed to be. Another possible reason is that there is an interruption such as faulty audio port or overlapping mic asses or outdated audio driver. It could also be as simple as your mic has a lot of dust that has clog your mic.

How to Boost Your Mic Sensitivity for Discord

Reset Discord Voice Settings

The first thing you should do whenever you experience the mentioned issue is to reset all previous settings to the mic gain in Discord. This way if your mic is set at a lower sensitivity level, it would reset and you would gain a better boost.

• Open Discord
• Open settings
• Search for voice and video under app settings found on the left part of the screen
• Click on voice and video
• Select voice settings
• Click Okay

Select Input Device

• Go to Discord
• Einstellungen auswählen
• Select voice and video on the left menu
• Select Selected device under Input Device
• Select mic
• Try joining a call and test if it would work better

Change Input Volume

Another way to fix your mic is by checking your input volume on your Discord app settings. If your input volume is too low then, your mic would have difficulties in picking up your voice.

• Open Discord
• Einstellungen auswählen
• Go to voice and video
• Adjust the input volume using your volume control slider.
• Increase the microphone volume and ensure that it is turned up to 100 percent
• Check if your mic is performing better

Disable Automatically Determine Input Sensitivity

• Go to Discord
• Go to Settings
• Select Voice and Video
• Select Input Sensitivity
• Turn off the automatically determine input sensitivity option
• Click on slider and set the value to 0db

Change Attenuation Settings

• Go to Discord
• Go to Settings
• Search for Voice and Video which you would be able to find under app settings on the left pane
• Go to Voice processing section
• Adjust as per your preference the attenuation value
• Toggle on – when I speak option and disable when others speak

Adjust Microphone Sensitivity in Windows

One way to fix your issue with your mic input is by boosting your volume within your Windows settings.

• Press Win+R
• Type ‘control’ in the pop-up
• Select Sound
• Select the recording tab
• Select your preferred device
• Select Properties
• Go to the levels tab
• Adjust the microphone sensitivity according to your preference. We recommend to adjust it to 100.
• Adjust the microphone boost value to maximum
• Click Ok to save Microphone properties changes
• Click Ok on Sound window
• Restart your device

Clean the Microphone Port and Hole

One of the most common reason as to why you could experience a problem with your mic is that your mic could be dirty and its mic holes are clogged. This could be due to the accumulation of dust on its port.

• Turn off your device
• Ensure that the charger is unplugged
• Dip a Q-tip inside a cleaning alcohol
• Insert the wet Q-tip inside the microphone port
• Gently rub and clean the rust and dirt
• Use a dry Q-tip to clean excess alcohol left on the port
• Wait for at least 10 minutes to dry out the alcohol
• Turn on your device and try it out

For laptop’s built-in microphone

• Turn off your laptop
• Ensure to unplug your charger or power cable
• Try to check where your microphone is located
• Use a dry toothbrush and rub the toothbrush inside the microphone hole to dig out the dust particles

Why Is Your Microphone Volume on Discord Unclear?

There are several reasons as to why your mic sensitivity could be low which could hamper the performance of your microphone on your Discord.

Inappropriate Discord Settings

There are different settings which you could customize it according to your needs and necessity. However, setting it wrongly could result to a malfunctioning input devices.

Faulty Audio Port Accessories

Sometimes, your headphones could be faulty or your audio port could be loose. This happens when you use your headphones constantly. It could wear and tear your headphones which could lead to a faulty and loose audio port.

Faulty Windows Audio Settings

Windows Audio Settings include the sensitivity of your microphone and input boosting settings. Hence, if your settings is defaulted at a very low value, then, it is possible that you would be experience some microphone issues.

FAQs

How to make your mic louder on Discord?

Ensure to enable noise suppression feature, adjust the sensitivity and input volume inside the same settings. You could also try to use third party microphone.

How to boost microphone volume discord?

Open your settings and click on voice and video found on the left menu under the apps settings. Adjust the input volume through the sliders under the voice settings in discord to boost your volume.

Abschluss

We hope that through this article, you were able to find useful information which you could use as a guide to boost your mic volume for Discord.