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How to mute your own Microphone

By PieParadox

This is a tutorial on muting your OWN microphone in EDF 4.1 since there is no other way as far as I know.

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Category: Modding or Configuration, Multiplayer, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any way to mute your own mic ingame.

1. Crap way: You can just disable your mic in the Windows 7 Sounds tab. Annoying if you actually use your mic.
(Start menu-> Type: Sounds -> right click and disable/enable your mic).

2. The Best Alternative: EDF4.1 (and Steam) chooses your "Default Device" as the ingame microphone- therefore, you can make another "useless" mic your "Default Device." I have a Realtek Microphone (driver) that does nothing, so I made it my Default. Put its mic volume to 0. Stereomix is also a good choice to set as default, and set its volume to 0. (Stereomix is a "virtual mic" that records your own computer.)
This step can be slightly annoying in the future, since other applications will default to it. Easy to revert though!

Now use discord without annoying everyone else

3. The easy way: As host, turn off CHAT when creating a room. This prevents typing too, though, so I don't use this. You have to enable this option every time you host though.

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Fuhrer_51[RUS] 18 Jul, 2023 @ 3:48pm

Greetings.
I've tried setting the Push To Talk key for Steam, but that doesn't help. Is this something to do with the new Steam updates or am I doing something wrong?

Abby 21 Mar, 2023 @ 9:49am

This problem is still not fixed in 2023, devs dgaf :(
Thanks for the guide

FOR GOD SAKE OPEN THE SILO DOORS 17 Apr, 2021 @ 8:21pm

or you could just get a togglable mic?

ANIKI 25 Dec, 2020 @ 7:10am

So much text and it's so easy ! simply turn off the button on the headset or use headphones

nalim_86 22 Sep, 2016 @ 12:56am

in-game voice chat is laggy and crappy anyway, you can mute all your teammates, and then they won't hear you either. checked it with my friend, only one of us had to mute another to disable in-game voice communication between us. won't work if someone joins mid-mission though.

Senore 4 Sep, 2016 @ 11:35am

How to mute my Self?

KazumaGER 16 Aug, 2016 @ 2:29pm

well, my friend told me he can't hear me anymore... :D

PieParadox [author] 16 Aug, 2016 @ 5:37am

@kazumaGER Really? I tried that but it didn't work! Maybe I put the wrong settings..

KazumaGER 16 Aug, 2016 @ 4:21am

You can ALSO just set your Volume (Mic) to ZERO in Steam itself :)
This way it's unaffected for windows :)

Antlions 12 Aug, 2016 @ 8:04am

You can also unplug your microphone as you launch the game, and are free to plug it back in after it's open. It won't pick it back up.

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