If Peace lets you boost your microphone itself then you can uninstall VB Cable so there are no unnecessary audio devices laying around. If Peace then lets you control your microphone’s volume and it doesn’t sound bad, then you can skip the rest of the steps in this tutorial that have to do with the “CABLE Output” virtual audio device.' Select “Install as SFX/ EFX (experimental)” and then proceed with the installation. A dropdown box should appear on the bottom right of the window. If you later find that Peace can’t control your microphone’s volume, then run the configurator again (which can be found by clicking the small “C” button on the right side of the Peace window), click the checkbox beside your microphone, and then click the checkbox at the bottom that reads “Troubleshooting options (only use in case of problems)”. Select the output device (your speakers) and click on Properties present at the bottom. If you want to try it yourself then click the checkbox beside your microphone instead of “CABLE Output”. Solution 3: Enabling Loudness Equalization Right click on the sound icon present at your taskbar and select Playback Devices (bottom right side of the screen). However, I found that doing so adds more noise to my microphone’s output. 'Note (you can ignore this if you don’t know what you are doing): It may be possible to use Equalizer APO to boost your microphone itself instead of the “CABLE Output” virtual audio device that was installed with VB Cable. If you can boost the microphone itself with Peace instead of boosting the “CABLE Output” virtual audio device then maybe you can bypass the confusion. I don't have experience with OBS, but maybe it's confused about which audio devices to use. These steps worked with my analog microphone, but they should also apply to USB microphones: I posted the tutorial on Google Docs because Reddit was screwing up my text formatting.

This virtual audio device is then used to boost the microphone signal to levels that Windows normally would not allow, and it does this while adding less noise than an equivalent Windows boost would. This guide bypasses that issue by installing a virtual audio device with its own driver and passing the microphone signal through that. Somewhere along the line Microsoft screwed up microphone support and made it so microphones that lack their own independent drivers are very quiet. I found that my mic sounded okay in Discord with 100% volume and +20db boosting in Windows, but I was still too quiet in Left 4 Dead 2 and VRchat, so I came up with the steps in this tutorial. Personally, I am using a $5 analog desktop microphone on Windows 10 (64-bit). This guide applies to external desktop microphones (both analog and USB) being used on Windows 10 (and maybe versions below that) that are too quiet even after turning the microphone volume up to max and boosting its signal by +20db or more using Window's settings.

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