Limit Microphone Volume

Applications love to take control of your microphone settings and modify the volume, which can lead to some unpleasant situations for people listening to you. If your mic is already quite loud, you may end up deafening your friends when a program bumps up the volume.

If the name doesn’t already make it clear, Limit Microphone Volume is a utility designed to prevent your mic volume from exceeding a user-defined limit. It is a very simple, unobtrusive program that can be configured in seconds.

As you’ll realize quickly, the application is remarkably simple to set up. It doesn’t need to be installed before use, and it runs in the system tray once you have set the desired limit.

The UI essentially consists of a single slider, which allows you to configure the volume threshold that should never be exceeded. When you’re done, simply minimize the application to send it to the system tray.

The program runs in the background and checks your microphone volume every 1.5 seconds. It the sound level is higher than the user-defined value, it will be reverted back to the preset limit.

You can double-click the application’s system tray icon whenever you want to change the limit. However, you will need to add it to the startup list manually if you wish to avoid launching it every time you boot up your PC.

There is little else to say about this utility, save for the fact that it is also open-source. It lacks advanced features, which is understandable given that it was designed as a straightforward volume limiter that can be set up quickly.

In short, if you’ve had problems with applications setting your microphone volume too high, this utility should prove useful. It can prevent the sound level from exceeding a certain value while running silently in the background.