Slightly OT: How can one turn off mike AGC on Samsung Series 9 laptops?

There's probably some other audio control panel, possibly sitting in the system tray by the clock.

Maybe AGC is part of gotomeeting. In properties you can block the app from changing the devices settings.

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I don't think that Windoze has built in MIC AGC. It's usually the function of the application (i.e. GoToMeeting) or possibly some overly "enhanced" audio "effects" application supplied by Samsung.

There doesn't seem to be anything like that in GoToMeeting. I dug through this tree and didn't find anything resembling AGC.

My guess(tm) is the audio "effects" application. Hmmm.... "...but a number of other pieces sounded rather muddy and distorted. Samsung's using some audio enhancement software here, and it gets a bit overzealous with more complex tracks." That's for the speaker, but in my experience, when the vendor screws with the speaker, they can't resist the temptation to do the same to the microphone.

Have this person install some remote control software (i.e. Teamviewer) and take a look at what he has to play with. Probably easier than asking him to disarm the MIC AGC.

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That's why I was asking, we couldn't find one anywhere but it may be hidden.

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It has "automatic volume and noise processing" but that doesn't make a difference. When I use the service with my older NC-10 netbook (also from Samsung) this effect never happens but, of course, I use XP. Something must be screwed up, either in the computer hardware, sound driver, or in Windows 7.

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That's the reason I ask, maybe the application (often provided by the maker of the sound chip in a computer) is messed up.

There is, in Settings -> Audio -> Automatic volume and noise processing. But doesn't affect it.

That link tries to load data from some obscure site that my firewall blocks.

Well, that would go a bit far. I thought there was some easy way to disable stuff. When companies get fancy with audio paths that almost never ends well because they often do not provide a "back to plain vanilla" option :-(

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Well, if it doesn't work, there may be TWO automatic gain controls working on their computer. One in GoToMeeting, and one in the audio "enhancements" in the laptop. Perhaps that's why you don't seen an effect when it's disabled in GoToMeeting.

I do it all the time. However, I do sometimes get accused of breaking the computer by remote control, the general results are quite positive. Remote control programs are mostly good for simple fixes and quick diagnostics, not complex upgrades or major system troubleshooting.

I constantly mangle the audio path and change settings with far too many audio related programs, each of which has it's own perfered settings. I either save the registry section, which is usually something like:

or just use a program that does it for me. Note that this is for XP and probably doesn't work for later Windoze mutations.

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May be you can try it !

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In this case it's different. The user does not even touch the PC and there are no sounds coming from it. When he sits in his chair and doesn't move, just occasionally speaks like the rest of us does, it's all ok. But when he writes something down and the pen makes scratching noises or when he slightly moves and the chair squeaks, the PC seems to think that this is a sound it needed to amplify.

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On a sunny day (Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:41:17 -0700) it happened Joerg wrote in :

Make a box with a beep just above audible frequency and give it to him. That will push the AGC down perhaps. Old Chinese solution;-)

Ah! A dog whistle. That'll do :-)

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Well you can load the free from M$ VM and XP modules that are available and just run XP in the VM and use that with its very superior user audio controls.

Juat a thought.

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Too much effort for most people. Plus video conferencing software needs a lot of horsepower, it may not run very well in a VM with all its overhead.

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1.4 GHz CPU. It isn't that CPU hungry, it is network speed hungry though. I have even seen some applications speed up in a VM, that was a real surprise.

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I see that all the time. The VMs can have idealized, simplified "hardware", no virus scanner, minimal registry, few installed programs, no OEM crapware or other cruft to slow them down.

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