I'm using a 2012 27" iMac running Windows 7 via BootCamp. For ages, my friends have been complaining about my poor sound quality during Skype calls so I'm just now deciding to do something about it.
My main microphone is the built-in one on my iMac. In OS X, it sounds beautiful - like I might as well be in a recording studio. By comparison, the same microphone under Windows picks up so much hiss that it makes your ears cringe and my voice sounds like I'm talking through a tin can.
To fix it, I've tried getting a new microphone. I first tried the Blue Snowball, but it wasn't sensitive enough to pick up my voice from 2.5 feet away where I normally sit. I returned it and instead got the Blue Snowflake, which was able to pick up my voice but it sounded nearly identical to the built-in microphone, both under Windows and Mac OS X.
I don't think it's a hardware issue, the problem lies in Windows. I need some sort of a software solution: perhaps a program that fixes my voice live but doesn't take up too much of my CPU. It may sound silly for me to post a whole forum thread without doing this first, but I haven't yet tried replacing the microphone's drivers. I'm a little bit afraid since I think they're special BootCamp drivers that I might accidentally end up breaking and then I'm left with no mic.
Also, if Windows 10 will fix this problem magically, that'd be great. I doubt anyone on here happened to have this specific problem and then it went away with a Windows 10 preview but if you did, please speak up!
Thanks in advance
My main microphone is the built-in one on my iMac. In OS X, it sounds beautiful - like I might as well be in a recording studio. By comparison, the same microphone under Windows picks up so much hiss that it makes your ears cringe and my voice sounds like I'm talking through a tin can.
To fix it, I've tried getting a new microphone. I first tried the Blue Snowball, but it wasn't sensitive enough to pick up my voice from 2.5 feet away where I normally sit. I returned it and instead got the Blue Snowflake, which was able to pick up my voice but it sounded nearly identical to the built-in microphone, both under Windows and Mac OS X.
I don't think it's a hardware issue, the problem lies in Windows. I need some sort of a software solution: perhaps a program that fixes my voice live but doesn't take up too much of my CPU. It may sound silly for me to post a whole forum thread without doing this first, but I haven't yet tried replacing the microphone's drivers. I'm a little bit afraid since I think they're special BootCamp drivers that I might accidentally end up breaking and then I'm left with no mic.
Also, if Windows 10 will fix this problem magically, that'd be great. I doubt anyone on here happened to have this specific problem and then it went away with a Windows 10 preview but if you did, please speak up!
Thanks in advance