Microphone With Mute Button

admin 18.09.2019

Microphone With Mute Button On Mac

I own a Razer Kraken Pro headset, which unfortunately does not have a mic mute/unmute button built into it, or on the wire itself. I am constantly getting interrupted by my family when I'm trying to play games with friends, and my friends can hear everything my family says to me, which I don't want them to. Is there a way to set a key on my keyboard to quickly switch the mic into mute/unmute mode, without having to manually go into my 'recording devices' settings outside the game I'm playing and switch it off the hard way? I have Windows 8, and my gaming keyboard does have additional macro keys available, so is it possible?
Thanks

Nov 16, 2017 Without using third party software, how can a microphone mute shortcut be setup to mute a microphone on and off. I do see under record devicesproperties for mic levels a mute button there that would work. How can I trigger that with a keyboard shortcut if I need to turn mute and unmute quickly on voip calls.

Have you ever had music playing loudly on your speakers when the phone rings… then you fumble for the speaker switch or the pause button on your music playing application while trying to answer the phone? Instead of bothering with that, I’ve always simply created a shortcut to mute the system volume instantly with the press of a key.

Of course this isn’t terribly helpful if you have a multimedia keyboard with a mute button onboard, but some computers just don’t have one, or you don’t want to run the software required to make the keys work.

Create the Shortcut

In order to mute the system volume, we’ll use a small utility called NirCmd that we’ve mentioned numerous times before, since it’s the swiss army knife of useful shortcuts.

Right-click on the desktop and choose New Shortcut from the menu. Brutal half life how to install.

In the location box, you’ll want to browse down to the location of where you saved nircmd.exe, and then add “mutesysvolume 2” as arguments. You’ll probably want to put quotes around the path to the executable, like this:

“C:PathTonircmd.exe” mutesysvolume 2

Note: the “2” argument tells nircmd to toggle mute, so if you use the shortcut or hotkey again, it will untoggle. I find that to be the most useful, but you could pass an argument of “1” to only use mute. All of the arguments can be found on the NirCmd page.

Give the shortcut a useful name like “Toggle Mute”, and then open up the properties of the shortcut. Here you can assign a shortcut key, or you can change the icon to something else.

I found the speaker icon in the following file, but you can choose another icon if you’d like:

%SystemRoot%System32SndVol.exe

Remember when using a shortcut key, you’ll want to keep the shortcut on the desktop or move it into the Start menu… the shortcut keys don’t seem to work when the shortcut is in the quick launch menu.

Microphone With Mute Button On Mac

Either way, you should now have a shiny new shortcut that will mute or unmute the system volume.