Dell's Sorry History of MicrophoneSoundcard Issue 1149

"Tom Scales"

Did not start another thread. That was in response to this in that thread:

Could the knowledgeable people in this group help out this?

Low Mic Volume? (10-29-05)

I have read several posts about the low mic volume on Dimension Desktops with the Soundblaster 24k Sound Card but unfortunately I haven't found any of them with a solution. Is there to date a solution for this?

I bought my pc for the purpose of Voice chatting that I use for business purposes on a daily basis and would really appreciate any fix for this.

Mic recording low

I have a powered mic plugged in to the sound card, a Radio Shack model. Since my last post I also discovered the Ymf-diag.exe from the knowledge base, downloaded and ran it. I get exactly the same results as from running MS sound recorder; very low output either directly or if I saved a wave file and played it back.

On the sound recorder modulation line there is no apparent modulation unless I have the mic touching my lips. From a normal recording distance (~ 12") there is such a low sound to the speakers as to be undiscernable.

Radio Shack mic will not record on Creative PCI 64V card

This computer is exactly two days old. It did not come with a mic so I purchased one from Radio Shack. With two fresh AAA batteries, installed, I launched Audio Recorder. No good. I tried to send an ICQ voice message; no good. Today I returned the mic to Radio Shack & they provided me with a replacement which tested aok on a hand-held cbuttette recorder in the store. INserting the two -contact banana plug into the red jack on the sound card proved this mic would not work, as well.