Audio troubleshooting
Echo while transmitting
Section titled “Echo while transmitting”Set optional microphone output to No Mic Output / Passthrough. Microphone passthrough deliberately sends your own microphone to an output device and can sound like an echo or sidetone.
Also check that another voice application is not monitoring the same microphone.
Muffled received audio
Section titled “Muffled received audio”SRS applies radio effects to received voice. Confirm the selected output device and speaker boost, then compare normal Windows audio through the same headset.
Use moderate speaker boost. Very high boost can make clipping and radio effects harsher and can make other Windows sounds excessively loud.
Microphone is not detected
Section titled “Microphone is not detected”- Confirm the microphone works in Windows Sound settings.
- Select it explicitly on the General tab.
- Use Audio Preview.
- Check Windows microphone privacy permissions for desktop applications.
- If required, enable Allow more input devices, restart SRS, and test again.
Choppy or clipped received voice
Section titled “Choppy or clipped received voice”The client records rolling incoming-audio diagnostics and logs potentially degraded conditions. If reconnecting does not recover the audio, use the Restart SRS binding or restart the client.
For recurring problems, provide clientlog.txt from the affected session. Note whether every channel was affected, whether all speakers sounded bad, and whether restarting SRS immediately fixed it.
Empty transmission sounds
Section titled “Empty transmission sounds”Hearing TX/RX clicks without intelligible voice can be caused by another player’s silent or very quiet microphone, a brief packet stream, or a failed capture device. If it repeatedly comes from the same player, ask that player to run Audio Preview and check the selected microphone.