There are cases when the microphone works properly when purchased, but when connected to a home computer, it does not. Most likely, the problem is not with the microphone, but with its settings. In order to get it to work, you need to configure your microphone by changing the system settings of your sound card.
Necessary
Microphone, sound card, sound card driver
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, make sure you have the latest version of your sound driver installed. To do this, you need to go to the Internet. Download the latest driver for your sound card. After installing the driver, restart your computer. We rebooted, but the sound did not appear.
Step 2
Start the mixer. You can do this in the following way: click the "Start" menu - "Control Panel" - "Sounds and Audio Devices". In the window that opens, go to the "Volume" tab - click the "Advanced" button in the "Mixer volume" block. A faster launch can be done by double-clicking the left mouse button on the speaker icon in the tray (next to the clock). In the window that opens, find "Microphone". If it is not there, then you can add by clicking on the "Options" menu - the "Properties" item - check the box next to the "Microphone" item. After that, a microphone will appear in the mixer window. Uncheck "Off" if there is one. As a rule, after that any working microphone should be heard in the computer speakers.
Step 3
It only remains to complete the setup. In the mixer window, next to the Microphone item, there is an Advanced button. Click this button. A window will open in which you can set the additional option "+20 dB". This option will allow the microphone to be more sensitive.
Step 4
If you made all the changes in the settings, as described above, but when using the Skype program, the interlocutor cannot hear you, therefore, it is worth changing the settings of the program itself. In the settings, as a rule, instead of the microphone port, the port of the TV tuner or other audio device is indicated. Replace the original value with a microphone.
