help with mic

[WHITEchicken]

can someone with a mic tell me what all they have checked on the playback and recording option on their sound menu? this would be a great help. for some reason my mic just died the other day.

[Drayu]

use teamspeak, the ingame is bothersome

[HEAT]

yea u need to use team speak my ingame mic dont workj for some reason but in team speak i come in clear so lame :dunno:

[WHITEchicken]

if i use teamspeak will everyone else that isnt on teamspeak be able to hear me]

[gamedame]

I downloaded the teamspeak client. I can't seem to connect, I get bad login/password error. I'm supposed to use the same login and password that I use for the WiH website, right? Or do I register separately?

[GroovyDude]

Login as anonymous using your ingame name.

[gamedame]

Ah, I just figured that out after I posted. Hehe... thanks. :thumbsup:

[wihadmin]

We look forward to hearing your voice gamedame. Please don't disappoint us by sounding like a 53 yr. old truck driver. :D

[gamedame]

Everyone is coming through garbled!

[GroovyDude]

really??? Sounds okay to me :dunno:

[gamedame]

I'm playing around in the settings right now. When I try the "local test" under sound settings I hear myself all garbled up. Anyone else have this problem?

[wihadmin]

Make sure you are using the Speex 16.3 Kbit codec when you're doing your local test. In addition, try using DirectSound instead of Wave. Those options are in Settings -> Options.

Finally, do you have a webcam with built-in mic? I have one and it makes everything all garbled until I unplug the webcam from the USB port.

[gamedame]

I have been using DirectSound. No webcam. I think it the problem lied in the Direct Sound buffer size. I changed it from med. quality to high and it seems to be working better now.

So, when I'm playing, am I supposed to switch into different channels (ie. CT or T) depending on my team? If so, how do I do this from inside CS:S?

Thanks.

[GroovyDude]

So, when I'm playing, am I supposed to switch into different channels (ie. CT or T) depending on my team? If so, how do I do this from inside CS:S?

Thanks.

Nah. We normally just hang out in the same channel. If there were a bunch of players on, then we would probably use the CT and T subchannels.

[wihadmin]

If you really want, you can bind keys to switch TS channels. But like Groovy said, we all hang out in the main channel right now. With that said, sometimes even if we're on different teams, we try not to use the info heard on TS to our advantage.