This issue of echoing isn’t specific to wired headsets. When you hear your own voice echoing through your headset, it can be distracting, especially if you are using the mic while playing a game or during a phone call. Solutions 6-9 will help you fix your audio drivers and give you some other general tips that could tip the scales in favor of your microphone actually doing its job. Headset echoing is frustrating, obnoxious, but easy to resolve. If you’re using a Bluetooth recording device then all the solutions will be helpful, but pay extra attention to solution 5. If you’re planning to get new wired headphones/headset or if you think you might be having a hardware issue, solution 4 would walk you through the hardware basics that you need in order to avoid common compatibility issues. Solutions 1-3 are basic checks and configurations everyone should make sure they’ve done. This is where you plug any type of device that you need to output some kind of audio into, like microphones. The microphone jack is another name for the audio input.

Select your headphone from Playback through this device drop-down dialog. If you think you know what the problem is, though, you can jump directly to the corresponding solution. So the headphone jack on your iPod is outputting the audio to your headphones that receive the audio to play it through the tiny speakers. Step 5: Right-click on your microphone or Stereo Mix and click Properties. We recommend following the solutions one by one and checking your microphone after each one to check if the problem is gone. You'll be presented with several different solutions.

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