"Xbox Game Bar" badly records a microphone

Inko_ · Nov 11, 2019

Good afternoon, I ran into a problem in the “Xbox Game Bar.” During any recording, the sound from the microphone is of terrible quality. The recording is from a good microphone and in other programs
in the same "Voice Recording" sound is normal everywhere except for the "Xbox Game Bar" with which it may be due to the microphone settings I did not find ... please help.

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JehlaInLove

I think it's from the computer, it must have a tool to synchronize the same microphone

Ricardo Cintra

Hi, I suggest you make a Report about That, can be some trouble with compatibility between you Mic with Xbox Game Bar, so with your report you can give in report the mic model for they can fix it

XBF Diego M

Hi Iman976,

Since this is happening with games bought and used from different platforms, there may be a PC setting that is causing this to happen. There's a possible setting where you have to turn on the microphone to record voice in your videos.

Go ahead and follow this guide to set up your headset microphone or any other microphone you use:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027981/windows-10-how-to-set-up-and-test-microphones

On the Game bar, go ahead and toggle the microphone mute button on and off when recording a video to test it out.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/social/record-game-clips-game-bar-windows-10

Let us know if that helps!

Kathy A.

Hello StC SpOrTsTeR,

Welcome to Xbox Community Forum. Thank you for sharing your concern with us today and we hope that all is well.

We understand that you are trying to use your microphone on Xbox app for Windows. We know it is important for you especially when you'd like to talk to your friends while gaming. Let us check on this together and sort this out in timely manner.

This could happen because the microphone/headset's driver is not updated or else did not match the Windows system update. To have a better understanding, we would like to further isolate your concern.

Are you using a headset built-in microphone or a separate microphone? Please provide the make and model.
May we ask if you can use Xbox Game Bar? Please try to use the feature of Xbox Game Bar - record a clip. Where you can play and record your game then try to speak through your microphone. Here are the steps:
- Enable Xbox Game Bar on PC settings and search on the search bar - Xbox Game Bar or else go to Gaming and turn on Xbox game bar.
- On Xbox Game Bar (press Windows + G on keyboard), under capture widget ensure the microphone is enabled.
- Launch a game and go back to Xbox Game Bar (press Windows + G on keyboard), and record a clip
- Narrate the game or speak to the microphone and end the recording.
- Listen to the recording and see if you can hear your voice.

Let us know the result and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We may recommend further troubleshooting steps once we have received your answers to the above questions.

Sincerely,

Xbox Forum Moderator

Microsoft Community

Jesse E'

Hello, My name is Jesse. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

There isn't a way to recover audio on an already recorded clip. But you can make sure the Microphone is enabled for your next recording.

- Go to Settings (press Windows + I key together) > Privacy.

- On the left hand pane scroll down and look for Microphone.

- Toggle Allow apps to access Microphone to ON.

- Under Choose which Microsoft Store app can access your Microphone toggle Xbox game bar to ON.

- Restart the game bar.

Hope this helps.

"Xbox Game Bar" badly records a microphone