FaceTime echo? I can hear EVERYTHING I do. So annoying.

[Advil]

I facetime my girlfriend a lot and we both use our Macbooks. I have a retina MBP 15" and she uses a year old macbook air. When I facetime her I can hear every single thing I do echo back to me. Every word I say and even really light sounds like my roommate opening the door or something across the apartment. It's extremely sensitive and extremely annoying.

Does anyone else experience this or have a fix?? At first I thought it was just her volume but it even happens when she has it on extremely low volume.

 

[yjchua95]

I facetime my girlfriend a lot and we both use our Macbooks. I have a retina MBP 15" and she uses a year old macbook air. When I facetime her I can hear every single thing I do echo back to me. Every word I say and even really light sounds like my roommate opening the door or something across the apartment. It's extremely sensitive and extremely annoying.

Does anyone else experience this or have a fix?? At first I thought it was just her volume but it even happens when she has it on extremely low volume.

Try using EarPods on both sides (you and your girlfriend).

 

[Gav2k]

Have you got a case blocking one of the mic's or is one gummed up?

 

[zepman]

Check your settings for the microphone in Audio MIDI Setup app. Mine was set to 96 kHz. When I changed it back to 44.1 kHz, the echo problems disappeared.
I think it's a bug with noise canceling not working correctly with all sample rates.