My mic is picking up and playing back audio for no reason

[Mysteroo]

I always thought that I was just hearing things, but apparently my mic is actually doing something I don't think it's supposed to

In control panel, 'listen' is unchecked, but for some reason when I get really close to the mic or talk really loudly into it, it still plays back some audio through my speakers. I never realized it was actually doing this until I started playing music and it rang because of the feedback.

Turning my speakers up very high, I can talk into my mic and hear everything I'm saying being sent right back at me louder, as if I have 'listen' enabled. But it only seems to do that if I talk RIGHT into the mic or if I something is being really loud. Otherwise it seems to act normal
What's going awwwn

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[Neon]

Probably your echo reduction trying to catch up to the change in volume or whatever. Get some headphones, gets rid of the problem immediately.

[Mysteroo]

Probably your echo reduction trying to catch up to the change in volume or whatever. Get some headphones, gets rid of the problem immediately.

I normally use headphones, for the most part, yeah, that fixes it. But I do still hear my voice playing through the headphones occasionally, though it's not nearly as bad

[Nal]

If its on skype
disable this

make sure microphone boost is all the way down (I have it high because my mic sucks)

turn the 20db thing to 0 and leave the microphone at 100

[Mysteroo]

If its on skype
disable this

make sure microphone boost is all the way down (I have it high because my mic sucks)

turn the 20db thing to 0 and leave the microphone at 100

Tried this- I know it's not skype now at least, since it didn't change much

Although I do have the boost up, since my mich is kinda crummy too, but turning that down and the mic up just made the playback quieter

I recorded this with stereo mix as the input, 'listen' is still off, so at least I know that it's playing into the stereo mix instead of skype or something.
But on the bright side, this is suprisingly good quality audio compared to when I use it normally. There's like- no noise. ._.

[Nal]

it sounds fine to me

[Mysteroo]

That's the point though- it's not supposed to be recording any noise at all. 'listen' is off and I'm recording with stereo mix, not with my microphone

I guess I can ignore it, but it kind of bothers me that it's doing that, lol