Great work. Just purchased a USB mic after trying every other type of USB phone with intel based mac mini and had all sorts of dramas with the volume and AGC. Tried this tip and ‘hey presto’ Skype is now perfect on the Mac. Great work Thanks.

Thanks for this, will try it.

As a request, could you put code snippets in as real text (maybe using the code HTML) rather than an image?

Awesome tip! Totally worked for me. When calling land lines or cell phones using the built in mic on my macbook, people would always say they couldn’t hear me, etc. So I resorted to getting an external USB mic, used your tip, now people are saying it sounds much better. Thanks!

i have the same problem with windows messenger, could this solution also work in that?

Hi – I just bought a new 20″ IMac and have been trying to use Skype. My friends can see the video but can’t hear me. I tried adjusting the volume for the built in Mic several times –but had no luck. I even tried your “echo” fix noted above with the shared.xml but still they can’t hear me. I suspect its something very basic that I am missing. Hoping that I do not have to buy a headset.

Any thoughts?

I am running skype version 2.5.0.85…

Thanks – John

Oh. Drat. Well, I’ll keep looking then.

— Steve

Thanks Kevin – this has been a real issue for me. Good detective work!

Steve, this is totally different issue that is well known on MacBook Pros.

I have run into “echo” problems on my Q1’s mic array in the past; my workaround was to plug in headphones when it was cropping up, cutting the speakers out of the issue, which works but is hardly elegant.

I’ll have to have a look at that later.

— Steve