Vista microphone volume low

[pamf]

So I got vista home premium installed last night and tonight I'm trying to talk on ventrilo.

Despite my best efforts, and cranking everything I can find to do with the microphone volume, people on vent can barely hear me. I've been playing with inputs in ventrilo, trying compatibility mode, etc for a few hours now and I just can't get the volume to go up.

Even using sound recorder, I can barely hear anything recorded.

Is there some hidden microphone volume slider somewhere I haven't found? The only thing I can find is the 'levels' slider in the microphone properties, but that's cranked up too..

 

[drjman]

What sound card are you using (integrated or PCI). Some HD audo cards don't support windows mic boost. I have experienced the same problem and fixed it by getting a Creative Fatal1ty extreme loser, blah, blah. It was fixed after that. Mic boost is essential for Vent and gaming.

 

[pamf]

ive got an audigy se, with the latest drivers from creative.. dec 21st or something..

i cant even find a mic boost option anywhere in vista ;/

although thats an idea. ive got some onboard realtek garbage. maybe ill try using that for the mic.

 

[drjman]

If you are able to use Mic boost, i found where it is.

Go to control panel, click on classic view
dbl click on Sound
dbl click on recording tab
dbl click on microphone
click on Custom tab
there should be a mic boost for +20db or something, depending on your card.

If you don't have it there, or you don't have the custom tab then that means NO MIC BOOST! Sorry, it sucks and thats the way it is sometimes.

Also if you use your onboard too, be careful when selecting the defaults and only use the mic input for that card. You don't want to be using the crappy onboard when you could be using your nice card.