So... For the last few months I have been having major issues with my sound quality of my Arctis 7. I have been sounding like I am holding my nose when I talk, or like i’m under water. 

I even tried my snowball and the sound quality of that sounded off as well. (Just not as bad as my Arctis 7)

Come to find out Windows 10 actually defaults your mic to 8000 hz, which is telephone quality. When your mic should be defaulted to 48000 hz (DVD quality) Changing this setting fix all of my mic problems on each device! 

I thought I would share this info I found with all of you that record on Windows 10. Changing this setting will give you a nice crisp sound quality like your device was intended. 

Step 1: Go to “Sound” either by searching it in Cortana or right clicking the volume in your system tray and going to “open sound settings”.

Step 2: Go to the “Recording” tab

Step 3: Select your recording device then right click “Properties”

Step 4: Click the “Advanced” tab

Step 5: In the drop down window you will have different options (as pictured)

Step 6: By default Windows 10 will have it set to “1 channel, 16 bit, 8000HZ” change this to “1 Channel, 16 bit, 48000 HZ (DVD Quality)

Step 7: Click “Apply”

Okay so I accidentally almost shut my PC off when I ment to put it to sleep (my hand slid a tiny hair down and hit the shut down button instead of sleep -_-). So I undid that and went back to save everything, cause there was a thing in was working on that hadn't been saved when this little whoopsy happened, and then I decided to reset my PC just to make sure that my accidental shut down and undoing didn't mess anything up... well... apparently in doing so