How do I set up my microphone?
So I have a dell laptop and the microphone sucks and people can’t always hear me. So I bought a headset with a mic, but my computer is still trying to use my internal mic when I talk to people and I don’t know what to do to make it use my headset instead. Any ideas?
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A picture probably speaks a thousand words. So if you want a quick snapshot of what you should be looking for, here it is: http://i.imgur.com/vvv5W.jpg
For a bit of a walkthrough.. These steps will vary a little bit between Windows XP, Vista and 7. But it should all be pretty similar.
Right-click the speaker icon at the bottom right of your desktop and click “recording devices”. If you don’t have that speaker icon, you can alternatively go to your Control Panel, and go to the Sound settings (If you use category view, go to Hardware And Sound -> Manage Audio Devices). Once you’re in the Sound window, just click on the Recording tab.
This will show all of the microphone devices you have plugged into your computer. Right-click on any of them and you can set it as the Default device (what you’ll want to do with your headset microphone), you can disable them (what you may want to do with your built-in microphone), you can go to properties (Where you can change the name, adjust volume settings, etc)
There are also some programs you can configure individually to prefer certain microphones over others. For example in Skype, you would go to Tools->Options->Audio Settings, and then select your preferred device from the dropdown Microphone menu. Most voice-chat programs have similar systems to changing the mic manually.
thanks. I got it all working :-)
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