Blue Snow Ball mic not being detected

[bambam710]

Hello, I am unsure if others are having the same issue but my blue snowball is not being picked up as a mic in game. I have disabled all other possible inputs, I have set it to my primary device and default. I have done everything i can think of and can not get it to work. Has anyone found a fix?

[cis0123s]

Are you by chance using an Xbox controller -or- have the Xbox Game bar installed ? If yes to either- go into your xbox bar config and set up your mic there, for some reason about 2 weeks ago that thing started re-mapping input devies for me and several friends.. hope this helps

[Nobody]

What method did you use to disable other inputs?

[cis0123s]

I started by going to Windwos device manager and disable all input devices but my mic interface... which didnt initially seem to help, then I started looking for anything else that might impact that and found that my xbox bar (press the xbox button on controller if your useing that) was remapping default input to a unconnected headset adapater on the controller. changed it in xbox game bar settings to my default input mic (akg 414 BULS) via foocusrite usb interface and bingo .. I could game chat in HD2

[Nobody]

Instead of going to Device Manager, try this:

Start > "Manage Input Sound Settings" > First option on the results.

From here, you should only see one input device, assuming all others were removed.

If you see more than one input device, then windows still sees them and we need to fix that.

Click each device you don't want to use and the top option you will see is General>Audio>"Allow apps and Windows to use this device for audio". Click the "Don't allow" button.

Do this for each device until you're left with the single microphone remaining on the list.

[bambam710]

i did that and i still can not get it to work

[bambam710]

Okay went through and got ti to work jsut am very hard to hear some reason