[Mic problem]

[Matt Lender]

So for starters I have worked in audio for 5 years as a producer, so it's not the 'Have you selected the right mic' issue. I own a 'SE Electronics SE2200a II C' and an 'M-audio fast track C400' audio interface. Love them both and they work fine on basically everything OBS, Battlenet, Discord, FL Studio so on. But I can't get it work on Steam!

My guess is that I'm not sending the right audio 'info' so my bit rate might be to high or something among those lines. I'm sending 2 channels, 24 bits, 44100 hz and I tried mono and stereo signal. I couldn't find what was supported so if somebody has info on that please let me know.

It might also be something completly diffrent that I missed so if anyone has an idea please let me know.

[Forcen]

Steam voice chat is an old thing, I keep forgetting it exists.

I don't know much about audio stuff but a good general troubleshooting trick is to start from the lowest point and scale up until it stops working.
How low audio quality can you get that awesome microphone to spit out?
My basic wireless headset microphone has 16 bits (same hz, mono) for example and that works fine, maybe start from 16 and go up from there? Maybe even lower?
Can it use a regular old headphone jack? (maybe not the problem)

[Matt Lender]

Actually started playing around with all the audio settings it can spit out and nothing seems to work. So 16 bits to 32 bits 44100 nothing works. So I guess that's probably not the issue since you are also using 16 bits and my laptop mic that does work for some reason is also 16 bits.

[Forcen]

Is the right audio input selected/highlighted in Steam? Is it the default thing?

If not I'm out of ideas.

I'm curious, why the need for Steam voice chat when there are so many other good alternatives? Or is this some audio in a game thing?