Laptop mic - keeps returning to low volume while using Zoom

[Robbie]

So I’m starting to really love this laptop for nearly all my daily uses. One issue I found out today was a Zoom conference call where the speaker sounded great, but when I set the volume for the mic, it kept rolling back to a lower level where no one could hear me. Every time I moved the volume control up, it would jump back.

I went into Zoom’s mic control to see if there was something that was causing it, but couldn’t find any setting changes that worked. Finally, I had to switch to my Windows laptop so I could participate.

Any ideas what could cause this? Is there a command line setting change that I could make to permanently change the startup volume?

Thanks for your help!

[Darmur]

being there with google meet and slack huddle (directly from the browser, Chromium)

to solve this problem I had to disable the automatic microphone gain adjustment

after changing this setting, the problem is gone

[Robbie]

Excellent, worked like a charm and gave me the mic volume I needed to be heard by others!

Thanks!