Why is my microphone so sensitive to background noise?
If you find there is too much background noise when you record sound, you should adjust the microphone gain by following
these steps:
1.
Click
Start
in the Windows taskbar, then click
Control Panel
.
2.
Click
Sounds, Speech, and Audio Devices
, then click
Sounds and Audio Devices
.
3.
From the
Audio
tab, locate the Sound recording section and click
Volume
. The Recording Control dialog box
appears.
4.
Select the
Options
menu and click
Properties
. The Properties dialog box appears.
5.
In the section,
Adjust volume for
, select the
Recording
option. Click
OK
.
6.
From the
Recording Control
dialog box, decrease the microphone volume level by moving the slider bar down.
7.
Close the
Recording Control
dialog box and then close the
Sounds and Audio Devices Properties
window.
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