Windows 10 Sound Settings

 

If you’re looking to find out about windows 10 sound settings. You have come to the right place. There are many sound settings that you can have set up on your PC and we are going to try and cover them all in this article.

There are a couple of ways to get to your sound settings, and there are a couple of locations where you can change your sound settings, leave it to Windows to make things confusing.

But the first location for the sound settings we’re going to take a look at is under the new settings panel.

First, open settings as pictured below:

Then you want to select System:

Then select Sound on the left:

Alternatively, you could just open settings and search for Sound and the first option will bring you directly to the sound settings pan:

Whichever way you choose to get there you will be shown several options for your sounds.

Starting from the top, you will have your output settings. These are all the settings for your sound, they just use the fancy word output.

Under “choose your output device”, you will have a drop-down menu of all the options your computer has to play sounds. You may only have one here, or you may have multiple if you have connected a headset and you also have speakers in your monitor. Whichever is selected will be the default sound device used when you go to play sound. Picture of the dropdown below:

You will see below this is an option for Device properties as pictured below:

If you select it, you will be brought to a new window like below:

Inside this window you have a couple of options:

1.       You can rename your sound device. This will give you more meaning for each device so you can find the audio device you would like to use.

2.       If you can check the checkbox to disable the device. This is pretty self-explanatory.

3.       The spatial sound option is the third option. You may have multiple choices here depending on what sound device you have. But this feature in a nutshell gives you more of a surround sound experience with your sound device.

4.      You also have the balance options these are to balance the sound levels of both of your speakers. You could have more volume on the left(L) or right(R).

Once you have this set the way you like it you can hit the back arrow on the top left to go back to the main sound settings pan. You can then select another device and change its properties if you like. Also notice in the output device dropdown menu you will see that the name has changed if you changed the name. (note: you will still have parentheses showing the actual device name.)

Then the next settings will be the volume control for that device. You can raise or lower it to your liking.

If you ever are having trouble with your sound, there is the troubleshoot button. This will walk you through steps to troubleshoot common sound problems.

You will also have another option “Manage sound devices”, this will open a new window with more options. This section will allow you to test your device to see if it is working, great for troubleshooting. Also, you can disable your devices if you don’t want to use them any longer.

The test is pretty simple for the output devices, you select the device that you want to play sound and click test and it should chime if it is working correctly. We will cover the input devices in the next section.

Moving on to the input section of the sound settings. A lot of the functions are the same as the output settings. You can choose the input device or microphone, then change the device properties as needed.

You have the dropdown menu to pick your input device, maybe you have a headset that records sound and a webcam that does the some. They will show up in the list of input devices.

Also if you select device properties you can rename your input devices and choose to disable the device. What is different here is the volume option, this is to test your mic and adjust how sensitive it is to your voice, the higher up the louder you will be to the others and in your recordings. You can test it as pictured below:

If you are low on the levels, have no fear, you can change how sensitive the mic is in the additional device options on the right:

You will be greeted with a new window that has more sound settings. We want to go to the levels tab on the top, as pictured below:

You can increase the microphone volume on the top section and you can increase the microphone boost on the bottom section, just move the sliders up, hit apply and ok and give it another test to see if it does better on the test.

Going back to the main sound settings page, the input section also has a troubleshooter button that is available much like the output option. This will help guide you through troubleshooting if you’re having trouble.

Also available under the input options is the manage sound devices. This will bring you back to the sound devices page, much like output, but under input devices, you don’t have the test option. You will just have the option to disable the mic.

Finally, we move on to the advanced sound options on the bottom of the main sound settings. When you select this bottom you will be brought to a new window with a bunch of sound settings as pictured below:

The top section is pretty much just your volume control and another section that allows you to choose your input and output options.

The lower section is a bit different though.

In this section, you can select how loud each app can be. Such as outlook or, Microsoft edge. You can change the volume that they play at, and you can also change which input and output device that should be used. Pretty cool if you would like to get super-specific.

I usually keep all mine set to whatever default device I’m using at the time, but know the option is there if you want to set up a new configuration.

If after going through all the settings, you can always reset your sound settings at the bottom of this page:

This will revert all your sound settings to their defaults.

This covers everything for the Sound settings. Hope you found what you were looking for. Yes I was listening to U2 when I wrote that.

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