To preface this, I am not a microphone/audio expert, but I have done my due diligence and research in trying to solve my problems, to no avail. Any help is appreciated.
Okay, I got a cheap Aukey condenser mic a couple of months back (I just want a cheap, but good enough quality audio setup that allows me to talk to my friends when we play games). I had it plugged into my computer via XLR to 3.5mm. The sound levels and gain boost were maxed in Windows 10 recording devices settings, but the audio was *extremely* quiet. I got Equalizer APO and Peace GUI and maxed out the gain there as well to +30 decibels. It noticeably helped, but it was still on the quiet side, and I had to be turned up all the way in Curse for my friends to be able to hear me well. I got an XLR to USB cable to see if that changed anything. Not a lick of difference. I eventually switched over to a dynamic microphone because I didn't want my keyboard sounds being picked up in the background, and I figured I'd see how the levels were for it instead. I got a Behringer Ultravoice XM8500. It's also incredibly quiet, even when my mouth is on the microphone and I'm screaming into it. This is the case with XLR-USB and XLR-3.5mm. With it boosted all the way in Windows and in Peace though, it's again barely acceptable. I've installed Realtek audio drivers and tried that instead of the standard Windows ones, and it honestly sounded worse with them, so I got rid of them. And now, I bought a Neewer NW-100 48V phantom power supply thinking that would surely solve my problems. I've tried plugging both my condenser mic and dynamic mic into it with XLR-XLR and the power supply into my computer via both XLR-USB and XLR-3.5mm and it does absolutely nothing! No difference whatsoever. I'm very fed up by now, and I really don't want to dish out more money to try yet another microphone which will likely still give me the same issues. The Behringer dynamic mic seems of good quality, and videos of other people using it sound great, so I'd like to get it working properly. Does anyone have any suggestions of something I haven't yet tried? Can anyone help me with these awful audio problems I'm having? Thanks.
Okay, I got a cheap Aukey condenser mic a couple of months back (I just want a cheap, but good enough quality audio setup that allows me to talk to my friends when we play games). I had it plugged into my computer via XLR to 3.5mm. The sound levels and gain boost were maxed in Windows 10 recording devices settings, but the audio was *extremely* quiet. I got Equalizer APO and Peace GUI and maxed out the gain there as well to +30 decibels. It noticeably helped, but it was still on the quiet side, and I had to be turned up all the way in Curse for my friends to be able to hear me well. I got an XLR to USB cable to see if that changed anything. Not a lick of difference. I eventually switched over to a dynamic microphone because I didn't want my keyboard sounds being picked up in the background, and I figured I'd see how the levels were for it instead. I got a Behringer Ultravoice XM8500. It's also incredibly quiet, even when my mouth is on the microphone and I'm screaming into it. This is the case with XLR-USB and XLR-3.5mm. With it boosted all the way in Windows and in Peace though, it's again barely acceptable. I've installed Realtek audio drivers and tried that instead of the standard Windows ones, and it honestly sounded worse with them, so I got rid of them. And now, I bought a Neewer NW-100 48V phantom power supply thinking that would surely solve my problems. I've tried plugging both my condenser mic and dynamic mic into it with XLR-XLR and the power supply into my computer via both XLR-USB and XLR-3.5mm and it does absolutely nothing! No difference whatsoever. I'm very fed up by now, and I really don't want to dish out more money to try yet another microphone which will likely still give me the same issues. The Behringer dynamic mic seems of good quality, and videos of other people using it sound great, so I'd like to get it working properly. Does anyone have any suggestions of something I haven't yet tried? Can anyone help me with these awful audio problems I'm having? Thanks.