Question Microphone Issues in Discord Only

[Lord_Snax]

Hi All!
I hope I posted this in the right place.

I am having a very strange issue within Discord and my Blue Yeti microphone.
Occasionally, I am told by my buddies that my audio tell me that my microphone sounds like pop corn and only hear every other word or so.
The thing is, that when I test my mic by reading a book into audacity, the audio is flawless.

I'm kind of at a loss of what could be wrong.

Here is what I have tried already.

• Reinstalled Discord
• Warranty the Mic
• Tried a different USB cable
• Tried a different USB port
• Tried a different Audio Subsystem

System Specs for those who are curious.

• Ryzen 7 5800X
• ASROCK X570M Pro4 mobo
• Gigabyte RTX 2080 GPU
• 32GB of RAM
• Windows 10 Pro

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Karadjgne]

In discord, goto the settings - voice. It has a mic test that'll ring on your audio setup, so you'll hear exactly what you say, within discord. There's also a menu to set what input and output are used. Discord has a bad habit of automatic assumption of Standard/Default after certain updates, which doesn't always align with what's actually best.

My steel series headset can seperate discord from game, so I can listen fully to chat, or to game or mix between. If I set that menu to the steel series output. If left at Standard, it sets chat and game simultaneously, no seperation, so the mixing button acts like a master volume button.

Also check the mic settings in windows. If it's set up moderately, that's usually better than full input volume, less distortion. Same applies to any software used by the mic, if the gain is set too high, you'll get impedence mismatch which discord might then amplify, especially if ppl are setting your volume to 200 etc.

 

[Lord_Snax]

Thanks for the response.

I have checked those settings and that has not helped. This biggest mind boggling thing is that when I join the chat channel, my mic is fine. Then after about 15min to an hour, the “pop corn” issue starts. Sometimes it goes away on its own. Other times I need to power cycle the microphone. And sometimes it never happens at all.

With that in mind, one would think it’s the microphone causing issues. However, it is not, I can use Audacity, Skype and, Zoom without issue.

One thing I forgot to state is that this issue started after I rebuilt my PC. At that time, I had a Logitech headset that was on its last leg, so I figured that was the issue. Alas it was not.

I’m starting to wonder if it’s network related. In the meantime I turned on the “High priority packets” setting to see if that changes anything and I’ll post an update if it does.

 

[Lord_Snax]

So I have an update!

It looks like network priority was the issue. I haven't had the "sounding like pop corn" issue in the past 2 days of use.
I haven't had a chance to run through all my paces with it, but at least it fixed the issue while at idle (i.e. chatting while watching YouTube, or browsing the web)

Now I just need to find out why my mic freezes occasionally. To my knowledge, that issue unrelated to the 'pop corn' issue as far as I can tell.