Hello, I have just received this microphone and hoped that it would simply and effectively reproduce good voice quality as written. Unfortunately, I can hardly be heard, the distance to the microphone is 20cm, it is connected to a laptop. My question is whether the microphone works with Windows 10, a laptop connection and with common communication software, such as Skype, without specific settings or use of an OBS software? The sound worked for a short time after resetting to default in the Windows settings, but after restarting the laptop it was gone again.

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Go to System Settings, Sound and then to the Recording tab. If your microphone is listed there, double-click. Set the slider under "Level" to 100, then it should actually work. My Rode NT-USB is so sensitive that you could almost use it as a directional microphone.

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When was the last time you did a "spring clean" of the registry, e.g. with CCleaner? I could well imagine that this would be useful. This way, my box also recognised the microphone again, after it had always said that I should plug it in (although it was plugged in).

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Many thanks for the tips! It seems to be a specific problem for me, as I had set the system setting and controller mentioned (but it always resets) and also activated the microphone in the respective software. How close does it have to be to the mouth for it to be clear? Is 20cm too far? Many thanks

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