Microphone

walleyeblugill · 17 Jan 2022

Hi
Why is there a humming sound coming from my microphone when talking?
THANK YOU
TIMMY

steve108 · 17 Jan 2022

Hello Timmy

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Nice job on the title. Can you give us any details on the problem? Just started, new microphone, built-in mic, etc?

How are you observing this hum? Tried unplugging/re-plugging it?

walleyeblugill · 17 Jan 2022

its external with camera attached USB connection
yes, plugged in and out did a mic test played back noticed the noise

steve108 · 17 Jan 2022

Do you hear the humming noise if you play a video/music? Just want to make sure it's not the speaker output.

See option 2:
Change Default Sound Input Device in Windows 10
make sure the correct input device is selected as default

walleyeblugill · 17 Jan 2022

defaults are ok speakers are good wonder if it's my tower inside causing this

steve108 · 17 Jan 2022

walleyeblugill said:

defaults are ok speakers are good wonder if it's my tower inside causing this

It's possible. Can you test the mic/camera with a different PC? What's the camera model info?

walleyeblugill · 18 Jan 2022

generic camera and microphone tested another pc no noise

steve108 · 18 Jan 2022

Redlining white noise from mic input after Windows21H2 installed interesting related thread

steve108 · 18 Jan 2022

Microphone Distorted and Making Noises in Windows 10 FIX [2022] - YouTube watch this

sandyt · 18 Jan 2022

Humming is usually an 60 Hz electric grounding issue. Video is loud, turn down volume before you watch it.

Fixing the USB Microphone Hum - YouTube

PS: never trust a youtube video in which the youtuber can't even install his own audio driver and instead use Microsoft's generic audio driver (as shown "high definition audio device").