Mic issues - Still no fix?

[Serial77]

A perfectly working microphone sounds really low and with a lot of noise on a clean win 7 64 bit install using the latest drivers provided by Asus for the Maximus VI Hero (Realtek_Audio_Win7-8_8-1_VER6017023)

Nothing has been overlooked (volume levels, boosts, noise canceling...)

No known software settings alter this behavior (many tricks out there, none work).

Uninstalling drivers and using windows generic does not solve the issue.

Drivers seem bugged as they don't overwrite some windows settings (view youtube link below)

You can find many posts online where people seem to be confusing the error with the typical problems of a muted mic, boost not enabled, etc... and end up concluding that the problem is in the mic itself. Well, it's not. My mic works fine on my laptop and on my wife's desktop.

All this fuzz about such a great Audio device on-board and the drivers are the messiest thing I've seen in years, hard to believe this is actually shipped like this. Also something tells me devs themselves have issues as I noticed in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=mLc_hGbqOt4

So what's the deal here? Disable in bios and install old Sound Blaster?

[Serial77]

Bump.

[HiVizMan]

Have bumped this upstairs.

[Serial77]

Have bumped this upstairs.

Thank you HiVizMan!

I have also posted a proper support ticket to ASUS with the complete hardware specifications and I'm currently waiting for a reply. If I get a solution to this problem I will report back with the information to help others out.

[HiVizMan]

Please do mate, the reason I do not post or try and fix any kind of sound issues is simple. It is not an area I am familiar or qualified to engage with. So bump it upstairs is all I can do.

[CSN7]

Any news?

[F2Black]

Hi,

I'm having the same issue - Headset (Razer Carcharias) works fine in old comp and in my laptop but my new system with the Maximus VI Hero the mic volume is very low and no matter what i do it really doesn't get any better.

[Ominous Penguin]

ASUS, is this being actively investigated?

I have the same issue. It seems like a common fault.

[Hertz_PT]

I received this board yesterday,
But have the same problem when I talk in teamspeak everyone hear a noise like wing everytime I speak, it's very anoying I already tried to change all the settings and nothing, before I had a Maximus Formula I and never had any issues like that...

Camo'n Asus fix this crap...

[Ominous Penguin]

Bump.
It would be good to have some word from on high about this.