Mic cutting in and out in recording

[The Slunch]

All of my steam recordings have my microphone cutting in and out at random. This seems to be a problem with steam not picking up my voice, however this isnt a problem for me on Discord. Also, I have the sound threshold turned off and the gain on my mic in steam turned up.

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Publicado originalmente por dreyvas:

Publicado originalmente por Asas:

I assumed steam is using the voice settings from the voice tab in the steam setting right under game recording. Turning on the advanced setting, disabling echo cancellation and also disabling the voice transmission threshold solved my mic cutting in and out completely. However now i have to deal with white noise because there is no noise gate.

I really do believe we should be able to control our own noise gate instead of relying on their presets like any other competent voice recording software.

Interesting. I used those same settings and my voice still clips badly in recordings. My mic level is set to 95 in Windows and for Steam voice settings I left it default. You would think turning off the voice transmission threshold alone would fix it.

I managed to "fix" it for myself but I don't think this will apply to everyone. I've done some testing and I'm pretty sure the voice settings don't affect game recording whatsoever. I have an at2020 and a scarlett2i2 3rd gen. Simply increasing the gain knob on the scarlett let me start hearing my mic with a few interruptions in the recording but disabling gain control in "Voice" settings, versus disabling it in "Game recording" settings, I was hearing a clearer, louder difference from the latter(disabled in game recording). I also tried enabling and disabling every setting in "Voice" once I got my mic working and I couldn't hear any difference.

[CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N]

ive tried every combo of steam settings and it still wont work. I'm really surprised to see no comment at all from Steam. surely all of us with this problem aren't running the same rare setup. Shame, i really do like the feature, but i cannot use it.

[Dreyvas]

Really we just need the full voice settings in the game recording settings, or the voice settings to apply to game recording. Easy fix if they're paying attention to feedback.

[Raccoon Pope]

Happening for me as well :(

[Can Polat | ☪]

Any news on this? Still the same for me...

[Xanitos]

I have this too, It stinks because everything else about this feature I really like so far, Hope they can fix it

[HaC]

same here - everyone else in the Discord lobby sounds fine - my voice sounds like I'm trying to pretend to the boss I can't here what he's saying lol

[Kill Master]

Same issue here, mic sounds fine every where else, Discord, Nvidia Shadow Play, OBS, ext...
Only happens on the Steam recording feature.

[GhostUrsa]

I've noticed this issue with when recording from the Steam Deck no matter what type of mic I'm using; built in, 3.5mm jack or USB. If I turn off the Auto Gain Control toggle in the game recording menu then I don't get the distortion, but my mic is quieter than the game. I think it might be related to that feature, since I could replicate the issue even in Desktop mode.

[HaC]

I tuned off the automatic gain control and everything worked fine

[HaC]

in steam

[madruguinha]

same issue here, my voice sounds robotic and burst sometimes, but in discord, nvidia overlay and other apps it sounds clean

[HaC]

Publicado originalmente por madruguinha:

same issue here, my voice sounds robotic and burst sometimes, but in discord, nvidia overlay and other apps it sounds clean

I was having the same problem. In Steam try turning off the Automatic Gain Control in the Recording Settings. That fixed the for me.

[GhostUrsa]

Publicado originalmente por HaC*Heck-a-Chill*:

Publicado originalmente por madruguinha:

same issue here, my voice sounds robotic and burst sometimes, but in discord, nvidia overlay and other apps it sounds clean

I was having the same problem. In Steam try turning off the Automatic Gain Control in the Recording Settings. That fixed the for me.

That does remove the distortion, but I find the that mic volume becomes very quiet after the fact. Anyone find a workaround to increase the mic volume without the auto gain?

[HaC]

Hmmm - In Discord maybe turn the mic level up and let your friends turn you down on their end?