On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 21:25 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > However, I'm told that there's so much static from my mic that the > host mutes me before I can even say one, single word. Try recording yourself to a file (e.g. use Audacity). Does it sound clear? If not, check your mike gain isn't wound up excessively high, wiggle leads and connectors, see if you can find a fault with your mic that you can make come and go. If there's a fault with the connectors on the computer, that's harder to deal with, though often it's just a grotty connection that will clear up if you rotate the jack in the socket a little bit. If your recordings sound clear, then you may be experiencing a transmission issue over the internet. What people call "static" is wrong in the first place, and misleading in that they call all sorts of different things by the same name. If you're experiencing packet loss, you can get crackles and pops. And some codecs are garbage (a friend's mobile phone garbles the first syllable of almost every word he says). I know you said you're not in a position to buy a new mic, but it might be worth buying a $2 cheapy as an experiment. You don't have to use a headset, you can use separate mikes and headphones. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jun 3 14:28:03 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
