Spudmeister

I found a solution, from a another thread. It's a program called Equilizer APO, and I used it to set the preamp gain to +17dB, I think it was at -6dB. It has to be something in Windows that set the gain to -6dB, as this is a brand spanking new computer, with no additional sound managers or anything like that. Maybe you can add a line of code to the HS70 drivers that automatically sets the gain to at least a positive setting?

No additional sound managers installed. Also, firmware flash doesn't change anything. If I record the misc, the sound quality of is pretty ok (for a cheap headset), but it's just really really quiet, so I'm willing to guess there might not be anything physically wrong with the mic, just the gain gets cut to minus one billion decibels...

Just got the HS70 after reading/watching great reviews of it online. The sound quality of the speakers is fine, the features are fine, but the output level of the mic is so low that the headset is pretty much unusable. I have all the mic levels (win/icue/discord) maxed out, but still I people can barely make out what I'm saying over Discord. Even recordings on the Windows Voice Recorder are really low on volume. No amount of adjusting really solves the problem, neither from the software or the actual mic. Is there anything that can be done, other than try to get my money back?