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 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.
If the volume control for the microphone is visible, skip to step 6.
4.
Select the
Options
menu and click
Properties
. The
Properties
dialog box appears.
5.
In the section,
Show the following volume controls
, click to select the
Microphone
check box. 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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