If a microphone connected to your Windows 11 PC is too loud, too tranquility, or just not working, there'southward a handy fashion to test your audio input device and check its input level in Windows Settings. We'll show you how.

First, make sure that the microphone yous desire to test is connected to your PC—normally via Bluetooth or USB. Y'all can too test a microphone that's congenital into your device. Next, right-click the speaker icon in the lower-right corner of the taskbar. In the menu that opens, select "Sound Settings."

Windows Settings will open to the System > Audio page. On that folio, whorl downward to the "Input" section and click the sideways-facing caret (arrow) beside the microphone that y'all'd like to test.

On the "Properties" screen for the microphone that you selected, curl down and locate the "Test Your Microphone" section. Click the "Start Test" push button, and then speak at a normal book into your microphone.

If all is well, you'll run into a blue bar on the "Input Volume" slider jiggle left and correct every bit you talk. If you don't meet a blue line moving left and right, information technology's possible that the microphone isn't beingness properly recognized past Windows or that information technology'due south malfunctioning.

When the test is complete, you lot'll see the event beside the "Start Test" button. The event is delivered as a percentage of the total input book that Windows detected.

You'll see the test result beside the "Start Test" button.

Ideally, you want the result to be about 75% volume when you speak usually. If y'all achieve 100%, the sound volition misconstrue, and anything less than fifty% is probably too repose.

If your microphone is too tranquility, click the "Input Volume" slider and increase the volume. Likewise, if your microphone seems too loud, reduce the volume using the "Input Volume" slider.

Adjust the microphone input volume with the slider.

And so, click "Starting time Test" over again, if necessary, to make certain that y'all have your microphone set to a expert input level.

Troubleshooting

If yous're not seeing any microphone activity during the microphone exam, first, try disconnecting and reconnecting your microphone (if possible). If that doesn't piece of work, effort restarting your PC. When you log dorsum in, run the microphone examination again.

And, although it'southward unusual these days, you might need to install a driver for the microphone. Look in the documentation for your microphone or headset to meet whether a commuter is required. If so, you tin can likely download the driver from the production's official support website, which varies by company and product. Before you download whatever drivers, make absolutely certain that it'due south the official website for the product, and so run a malware browse on the downloaded files before you lot run the driver setup. There are many fake driver websites that distribute malware. Good luck!