My Microfone recording level is really quiet

Even though the settings are on full volume I still have to really shout for anyone to hear me over skype and I have also checked skype settings and it's all fine. It never used to be this low

Do you have a volume limit set? Settings>Music>Volume limit?
Was the volume OK before?
Try the following:
- A reset. Nothing is lost
Reset iPod touch: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore from backup
- Restore to factory settings/new iPod.
If you still have the problem that indicates a hardware problem and an appointment at the Genius Bar of an Apple store is in order. If the iPod is defective, within warranty and not abused Apple will exchange at no cost.. If Apple can't easily fix the problem like cleaning the headphone jack, Apple will exchange the iPod for a refurbished one for this price.
Apple - Support - iPod - Repair pricing
A third-party place like the following may be less expensive, depending upon the problem.
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since yesterday, I've got an issue with my headset's microphone (it's a QPAD QH-1339). The recording level is WAY too high, at 2 % level it's already starting to clip and I hear noise coming from the motherboard (a Lenovo ThinkPad T540p laptop). First I thought it might be a problem with PulseAudio but after testing with arecord I realized it seems to be ALSA related (same problem there).
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extra/alsa-plugins 1.0.28-2 [Installiert]
extra/alsa-utils 1.0.28-1 [Installiert]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-3 [Installiert]
extra/zita-alsa-pcmi 0.2.0-1 [Installiert]
multilib/lib32-alsa-lib 1.0.28-1 [Installiert]
$ pacman -Ss pulse | grep Installiert
extra/libao 1.2.0-1 [Installiert]
extra/libcanberra-pulse 0.30-4 [Installiert]
extra/libpulse 5.0-1 [Installiert]
extra/pavucontrol 2.0-2 [Installiert]
extra/pulseaudio 5.0-1 [Installiert]
extra/pulseaudio-alsa 2-3 [Installiert]
multilib/lib32-libpulse 5.0-1 [Installiert]
lsusb:
$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0d8c:000c C-Media Electronics, Inc. Audio Adapter
ALSA and PulseAudio config files are stock; I've reinstalled alsa-lib, lib32-alsa-lib, libpulse, pulseaudio and lib32-libpulse already, making no difference. The built-in microphone seems to record just fine (apart from the horriblenot-so-great sound quality). It also seems to work somewhat if I set the recording level in the ALSA mixer to 100 % but Skype of course changes the recording level as it likes. When enabling the monitor (to hear myself) the sound quality from the headset's microphone is just perfect so I'm pretty puzzled what to try next.
If you need more information, let me know. Thanks in advance!
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Last edited by volatile void (2014-12-31 14:12:49)

TheSaint wrote:
Very different from mine
Try to set the capture level lower, you may do it by amixer or alsamixer or your systray applet.
I think your card is non fully set.
What says
lspci -vnn |grep 'High Definition Audio'
Try to disable pulseaudio and remove the module. See wiki and in particular this section.
I know, their aren't the definitive solution, but we should have to toss a bit of straw from the haystack to find the needle.
Well, I should point out that it's an USB headset with integrated audio controller (was a bit unclear in my first post, sorry). The sound card integrated in the laptop works just fine but the integrated microphone is awful (in a non-ALSA, non-PulseAudio way ) so showing you the output from lspci won't help much I suppose. But at least it has a Mic Boost control.
Maybe it helps if I describe the behavior in the PulseAudio volume control in more detail.
For the integrated sound card, the input level behaves linear (I know it's logarithmic but that's not the point ). At 0 %, it's completely quiet, at 100 %, it's clipping. In between, everything's fine.
For the USB headset, 0 % is completely quiet, 1 % is clipping already, just getting worse until 40 % which is the ALSA base volume. There it's quiet but at least the volume indicator shows something. At 41 %, it's clipping again until 100 % which seems to behave like 40 %.
Now as Skype thinks that 40 % is too quiet it changes the input level (reasonably enough I guess). Too bad that anything BUT 40 % means white noise coming from the microphone...
Disabling PulseAudio is not really an option as Skype doesn't work with anything but PulseAudio. Besides that the problem also occurs with arecord.
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