Before you try the solutions below, you can do the following, and after each task see if your USB microphone is now working normally on your PC without issues: The Audio service running in ...

The Fifine Tank3 is a well-built microphone for a decent price but will require a learning curve to get your voice sounding ...

A USB microphone can dramatically improve the quality of the sounds you record, and it usually requires nothing more than a single connection to your computer. The 512 Audio Tempest is our pick ...

[Andy] notes that MEMS microphones are very delicate and ... to make the sound clearer before sending it through to a computer by the USB audio device descriptor. Once the components are chosen ...

Luckily, someone had already figured out how to read out a microphone and present a USB device to a PC, so all that was needed was to put all the bits together into a convenient form factor.