If your microphone seems too serenity or loud on Windows ten, you can hands adjust the bespeak input level. Here'southward how to increase or decrease your microphone volume.

How to Modify Microphone Volume Using Settings

Windows Settings is one of the quickest and to the lowest degree confusing ways to adjust your microphone volume in Windows ten.

To open it, click the "Offset" menu, then select the gear icon on the left. This volition open "Settings." You tin can also press Windows+i to open it.

To speed things up, you tin also right-click the speaker icon on the taskbar in the notification area (organisation tray) and select "Sound Settings." The Sound Settings window will appear.

In the "Settings" window, click "System."

Select "Sound" in the sidebar.

Coil down to the "Input" section in the Audio window. Select the device y'all'd like to configure using the "Cull your input device" drib-down list. So click "Device backdrop."

In Windows 10 Settings, choose the microphone then select "Device properties."

In "Device" properties for the microphone, apply the "Volume" slider to adjust the input level of the microphone.

On the Device properties screen, use the volume slider to adjust the microphone input level.

The louder the volume, the louder the input signal will be when you lot employ the microphone. Louder isn't e'er better, however—if the signal is too loud, your vocalization will be distorted. Try to detect the ideal volume where your voice (or other sound source) is loud enough without having any kind of distortion.

If you lot need assistance, click the "First test" button and speak into the microphone at a normal volume. When y'all click "Cease test," you'll encounter the highest percentage level registered by the test program.

You can and so conform the volume slider accordingly. If you lot keep hitting 100% by talking at a normal volume, and then the Book slider is adjusted too loftier. Reduce the volume and try again.

When you're satisfied, close "Settings," and you'll be ready to go. If you ever need to adjust it again, just open "Settings" and navigate back to Sound > Input > Device properties.

How to Change Microphone Volume Using the Control Panel

Y'all can also adjust microphone input book using the classic Control Console.

You lot can launch this tool from the speaker icon in your taskbar'south notification area, which is opposite the Start button. Starting time, right-click the speaker icon and select "Sounds" from the menu that appears.

In the "Sound" window that opens, click the "Recording" tab.

You'll see a list of microphones installed on your arrangement. Select the 1 you'd like to suit, so click the "Properties" button.

In the "Backdrop" window that appears, click the "Levels" tab.

In the "Levels" tab, utilise the Microphone slider to accommodate the input level of the microphone. The college the level, the louder your microphone signal volition exist while it'due south in utilize. That means your phonation will come up through louder. Just a point that is too loud will misconstrue, and then endeavor to find the sweet spot where it's loud plenty but non too loud to distort your vocalization.

After that, click "OK," then click "OK" again to close the "Sound" window. If yous need to suit the level again, revisit the Microphone properties through the speaker icon on the taskbar. Proficient luck!