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Hello. I have a Samson Meteor Mic and I can't find a solution to my problems anywhere on the internet.
I have three main problems. The first one being that the microphone simply can't pick up sound properly over 5cm of distance. I have to put the microphone near my mouth in order to get some audio.
The second one being that, if I increase the microphone level on Windows settings, I get a really bad background noise (it is not mechanical, I've already tested that).
And the third one is more of an extension of the first two problems. Even when I increase the microphone level to 100, my microphone won't pick up more distant sound (it used to clearly pick up my voice when I was laying on bed, for example. About 1.5m of distance).
Important notes are:
-I loaded Audacity yesterday to test some audio, I didn't see any problems with the audio.
-I unplugged my mic from my usb hub yesterday (I had to go home and pack my things)
-I plugged the mic on one of the notebook's USB ports and loaded Audacity. This is where I saw that the mic wasn't picking anything (same configurations from yesterday)
-Then I plugged the mic on the USB hub and the problem persisted.
Here are the audio samples:
The noise (mic level at 100): https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnirobES1qckpx77szRDyLYUt7Qs
Me trying to speak (mic level at 31): https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnirobES1qckpx3Ynue7r8FDoqol
Mic close to mouth (mic level at 31): https://1drv.ms/u/s!AnirobES1qckpxy28nkf9WRPf0dW
I had to reduce the mic level to get the noise to an acceptable level.

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