Mic not being picked up during xbox gamebar [capture audio set to All : Game, mic, apps,...

Hello Michelle Ravenwood,

Thank you for sharing your concern here in Xbox Community Forum and we hope that all is well.

Based on the description, you are trying recording using the game bar with your discord voice. Let us see how we can help.

Windows Xbox Game Bar can capture recording your screen, any sound output and your mic. You can turn the mic off if you do not want to record what your mic picks up. This is how the Xbox Game Bar capturing works. You can also capture recording on the other app by changing the audio to record capturing setting. To check follow the steps below:

• Open Xbox Game Bar or Windows key + G
  
• go to Settings (gear icon)
  
• select capturing and under Audio to Record, tick All.
  

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Hi Deyaiceron, my name is Jose and it is my pleasure to help you.

I am very sorry that you are going through this problem and I understand you perfectly, so with the intention of helping you solve this problem you can try the following steps:

1. Check your audio settings in Xbox Game Bar to make sure your microphone is selected as the input device.
2. Update audio drivers to the latest version.
3. Reset Xbox Game Bar to default settings.
4. Disable exclusive control of your microphone in other applications like Discord.
5. Check your privacy settings to make sure microphone access is allowed in Xbox Game Bar.

If the problem persists, you can also try uninstalling and reinstalling Xbox Game Bar or resetting Windows audio settings to default. If you have any other questions, let me know, I will be happy to continue helping you.

Credits: https://answers.microsoft.com/thread/9495cf21-692c-48e6-ab8d-a06739c0feec

I hope this information is useful to you, I wish you good luck.

Greetings,
Jose.

I don't have any other microphones to test with unfortunately, I'm using the mic on my headset. Reinstalling the game bar made no difference either.

I checked through the capture settings and it only seems to mute me when the "audio to record" is set to "all" ( i.e game audio, microphone, all other apps ), but not when it's set to "game" ( game audio + mic ). But the issue with this setting is that I want my discord calls / party members to be heard in the clips and recordings too. So I'm very much at a loss

2 questions.

1st off, are.you in the preview program, and the 2nd, which is probably obviously answered, but have to ask for clarity, do you have any other headsets connected, or Kinect?

I haven't seen this issue before but I imagine it's a problem with the particular headset you have.