I've been gaming (Planet Crafter) with my daughter recently and chatting on Discord (before it stopped working) and Xbox app party chat. The issue is I can always hear my own voice a second after speaking. I've been through the usual suspects - sidetone settings in the Razer Synapse app and Mic Monitoring in Windows settings - but I can't stop it. Any ideas? I'm using Windows 11 and Epos H6Pro connected to a Razer THX USB sound card. I'm going to test tonight with the kid's headset (standard input jacks plugged in to motherboard audio) to rule out if it's one of the components but truth is I really want to to work with my current setup as I like the THX dongle.
Go into control panel > sound > recording and right click on your mic > properties. Make sure it isn’t configured to “listen” anywhere?
I'm betting your daughter has her headphones turned up loud and sound activation enabled. Maybe try getting her to switch to push to talk instead and see how that goes.
Are you hearing your voice as you’re speaking, or is there a delay, however slight? If it’s the latter, then some software setting somewhere could be feeding your voice back to you - wot @Zoon said is a good first candidate. It could also be as @slimithy said, where your daughter’s headset is picking you up. If it’s the former, then you need to look for something called “sidetone”, or “talkback”, or similar. This tends to be a specific feature of the headset hardware itself, sometimes controllable in software, sometimes controllable in hardware, sometimes both. My OH’s Arctis Nova Pro, for example, has a setting in its management software; whereas with my Beyerdynamic MMX200, I have to long-press a button on the headset. Personally, I like sidetone - if I can’t hear myself then I know I’m muted, or if my voice is quiet I know my mic gain isn’t high enough. It threw me off at first when I started using a condenser mic and a mixer, but I quickly got used to it and now I hate not having it.
