constant crunchy "bitcrush" audio

[Genolla]

saw someone use the term bitcrush so I assume it's what I'm referring to, but basically the audio constantly has some retro sounding crunchy audio that gets louder during certain parts of the background music and even dialog. I would greatly appreciate an option to remove this sound as it's extremely irritating and it's practically constant

[Genolla]

It appears the issue was entirely on my end!

I recently acquired a new microphone to replace my headset's mic, and it has a built-in function to balance Game audio and Chat audio using a dial, but to use that I needed to plug my headphones into the mic itself. Since doing so, all audio has been more quiet which was fine, but I noticed it was giving me the same problem I reported here in another game as well.

I just happened to get this mic the other day and then started playing this game right after so I figured it was caused by this game. My mistake!