

From here, change your input device to Voicemod Virtual Audio Device. Under the App Settings category, navigate to Voice and Video. In the bottom left corner, you should see a cogwheel icon.

In order to adjust things we’ll have to head into the Windows Control Panel. In your application, however, you likely want to hear the game sounds (wearing headphones to isolate the sounds from the microphone is ideal here) and the person you’re chatting with. Windows automatically recognizes Skype as an audio/video chat communication tool and, by default, assumes that when the communication tool is active that you would like all the other system sounds to be hushed in order to both hear your partner more clearly and not have those sounds blast your microphone and create a bunch of interruptions and background noise.

The reason you can’t find any setting in Skype to control the sweeping volume adjustments that occur when you run Skype concurrently with other sound-producing apps (like your video game) is because it isn’t actually Skype that’s performing the adjust. I can manually open up the Windows Volume Mixer from the system tray and fiddle with each individual volume control for each individual audio source but that’s 1) a huge pain and 2) only temporary as the second I shut down Skype and start it again then all the volumes are automatically decreased. I’ve looked everywhere in the Skype menus, but I can’t find a single thing that indicates any sort of control over this volume-dampening effect. It works pretty well as a voice chat channel while we’re playing, but there’s one super annoying feature that I can’t seem to fix.Įverytime I start Skype, Skype seems to nearly mute all other audio (every audio source but Skype is probably only 10-20% its previous volume). Lately I’ve been using Skype to talk to my nephew while we play video games together. Read on as we fix the Skype silencing issue. While that’s great for ensuring you don’t blast your video conference partners with music it can also be a detriment when it mutes sounds you need to hear. You fire up Skype and suddenly everything on your computer is radically quieter.
