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Fix Buzzing, Static Noise and Loud Microphone in CS:GO!
By Finnelele
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Players often complain about the mic of their teammates for it being too loud, bad quality or buzzing.
There are several reasons which could cause this problem.
   
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CS:GO compresses the audio file!
You have to know that CS:GO is actually compressing the audio file for a faster transferring speed. Unfortunately this results in a quality loss. You can't turn this off so everyones mic will sound worse than in teamspeak and other applications.
How to find the best Volume for your Microphone!
1. How to test and improve your Microphone in CS:GO!

Join an empty server and open your console. Type this into the console:
voice_loopback 1
This command will let you hear yourself if you press v (or whatever your push to talk key is).

If you press shift+tab, your steam overlay will open (if activated).
On the bottom you'll find a "settings" button, click it and then go to "voice".
Changing the microphone volume will change your windows volume settings!
Lower or higher the volume depending on what you need.
Keep switching back into the game and test your new volume setting until you find the perfect one.

2. CS:GO may changes your microphone volume in windows to 100% everytime you start it!

After you found the best mic volume go to your microphone settings in windows and check what volume percentage its at. Remember that number.

Change this command in your config file or your auto exec to your number:
voice_mixer_volume "your number"
This will guarantee that CS:GO wont change the volume to 100% again which causes heavy distortion and static noise.

Examples:
100% = 1,0 = voice_mixer_volume "1,0"
75% = 0,75 = voice_mixer_volume "0,75"
50% = 0,5 = voice_mixer_volume "0,5"
25% = 0,25 = voice_mixer_volume "0,25"

Unfortunately this is all you can do within CS:GO to improve your mic.
If you're still having problems take a deeper look into your microphone software if you have any and your windows settings.
Your Microphone is not only bad in CS:GO but also other applications such as TeamSpeak?

If you also have problems with your microphone in other applications it's either a problem with your microphone or your soundcard.
1. Make sure your microphone is pluged in at the backsite of the computer, not the front.
2. Test your microphone on another device to see if your microphone is the problem.
3. Do you use an onboard soundcard? If yes you might want to look into a new soundcard.
I had problems with my microphone and fixed it by buying an Asus Xonar DGX soundcard.
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27 Comments
SkipperFabi 21 Sep, 2022 @ 2:32am 
My mic only outputs a static noise if i am not max 1mm away from it. Every other game, app and steam works perfectly fine. I hate the cs go settings
Bruno 5 Feb, 2021 @ 2:45pm 
hey can you help me ? please add me or comment on my profile
Samurai 26 Dec, 2020 @ 5:27am 
Thank you, realised I had to plug my headset into the back of my pc not the front
grandpa og 17 Sep, 2020 @ 9:13am 
i like csgo!
Jett 12 Oct, 2019 @ 3:28pm 
Hey my mic on csgo shows its on but my teammates hear a fuzzing sound it works fine on any other apps but csgo.

Pls Help
mink 12 Aug, 2019 @ 2:12pm 
GUYS try going to control panel > sound and checking default microphone. Change it to yours and refresh csgo
finnazeus 22 Jun, 2019 @ 5:39pm 
there is no voice tab for me
NightmareWokeUp 9 Jun, 2019 @ 4:27am 
my mic doesnt work in csgo, every other application (including steam) it works completely fine. in csgo it has white noise very very loud, but it stays the same, even when i reduce mic mixer volume to .25
please help...
wefu wer wecn 15 Feb, 2019 @ 7:22am 
Hi, I'm still emitting a white noise even after I tried every single fix mentioned online. The problem only exists within CS:GO because in every other application and even in Steam's own mic test it sounds perfect. I have no idea what to do and this is seriously holding me back whenever I want to communicate with my teammates. ): Is there any other way or do you know about anything else?
Finnelele  [author] 17 Nov, 2018 @ 1:21pm 
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Glad it helped! :)