Realtek HD - Low Volume Fix

[Styr]

Hello there,

Instead of replying to older posts i'll just create another one. I've seen few people having issues with low volume with Realtek HD, I was one of them. My sound "system" is just pair of headphones so 100% volume was not enough for me. So after few days of messing about I found an solution:

1. Open Realtek HD Audio Manager from taskbar
2. Under ANALOG you should have inputs, right click the green input (Depends if you have it plugged on front or back) and choose Connector Retasking
3. Check the option "Headphone"

Now the volume should be louder.

What also helps is if you check Loudness Equalization under the sound effects tab in Realtek HD Audio Manager or Speakers Properties.

I hope this thread helped.

 

[fireberd]

Good Info. Except not all RealTek's have the HD Audio Manager and those that do there are may variations in the HD Audio Manager from the various PC and Motherboard Vendor's. Some have all the options like yours and some do not.

I recently worked a problem for a Laptop user and the Laptop Manufacturer didn't provide any RealTek audio manager (the generic drivers from RealTek did not either).

 

[yarrmateys]

there's one more way to make it a little bit louder.

in the same realtek hd audio manager, switch to sound effects, press the equalizer icon (square with small dots inside) to switch to graphic equalizer mode, then drive every slider all the way up. this should make it a little bit louder.

 

[BeenSearching]

1. Open Realtek HD Audio Manager from taskbar
2. Under ANALOG you should have inputs, right click the green input (Depends if you have it plugged on front or back) and choose Connector Retasking
3. Check the option "Headphone"

When I open up the Realtek HD Audio Manager I dont have the green input option. I only have a black circle under the ANALOG. When I right click it, nothing happens. I have updated my Realtek diver to the latest version, how do I fix this?

imgur: the simple image sharer (it looks like this, it is in Dutch, but that doesnt really matter)

 

[OvenMaster]

Every motherboard I've had since 2004 had RealTek audio that was too quiet, especially for recording "what you hear".
The only solution that worked for me was to buy and install a sound card and disable RealTek onboard sound.

 

[yarrmateys]

The only solution that worked for me was to buy and install a sound card and disable RealTek onboard sound.

sometimes it's just not possible though. in my case, i only have 2 pci slots. one is covered by the gpu, another is so close to it that anything plugged into it covers up the gpu's fan. i tried using my old audigy, but it made the gpu overheat a lot.

getting an usb headphone set helped, the sound gets very loud when it needs to now.

 

[Zoumer]

I hope this thread helped.

(i made this acount just to post this)
Dude thank you so so much. When i was on windows 7 i had this option enabled somehow and enjoyed the loud music and now when i installed windows 10 and it drove me crazy why my sound volume was so low, and i kept reinstalling drivers with no result. after 1 week of banging my head in the wall i finally found your post, again THANK YOU SO MUCH

 

[Shredon]

Hey Zoumer, just wanted to say I just googled this volume fix and thanks to your post about windows 10 I'm pretty sure it helped me find this and the fix worked great. So thanks for bumping this up, you saved me a low volume headache.

 

[Cookee]

Hey Zoumer, just wanted to say I just googled this volume fix and thanks to your post about windows 10 I'm pretty sure it helped me find this and the fix worked great. So thanks for bumping this up, you saved me a low volume headache.

Same here! Only I have a Dell. I had to go to "Dell Audio" instead to do this.

 

[CrackerPLz]

Hey Zoumer, just wanted to say I just googled this volume fix and thanks to your post about windows 10 I'm pretty sure it helped me find this and the fix worked great. So thanks for bumping this up, you saved me a low volume headache.

Same here! Only I have a Dell. I had to go to "Dell Audio" instead to do this.

Same here, I formatted my PC and my AUDIO went low a little bit, and this fixed it, thank you very much!

 

[aldaaime78]

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[miahiv]

1. Open realtek hd audio manager from taskbar
2. Under analog you should have inputs, right click the green input (depends if you have it plugged on front or back) and choose connector retasking
3. Check the option "headphone"

thank you!:d

 

[Tanathip]

Found another method

I've just found another method. Simply go to Realtek HD Audio Manager, go to Sound effects and check the box: Loudness Equalization. This fixed the issue for me

 

[markaz]

Thank you

Hello there,

Instead of replying to older posts i'll just create another one. I've seen few people having issues with low volume with Realtek HD, I was one of them. My sound "system" is just pair of headphones so 100% volume was not enough for me. So after few days of messing about I found an solution:

1. Open Realtek HD Audio Manager from taskbar
2. Under ANALOG you should have inputs, right click the green input (Depends if you have it plugged on front or back) and choose Connector Retasking
3. Check the option "Headphone"

Now the volume should be louder.

What also helps is if you check Loudness Equalization under the sound effects tab in Realtek HD Audio Manager or Speakers Properties.



I hope this thread helped.

Wasn't looking for any miracles, but 6-8 straight hours of power watching Netflix using headphones with my PC made for some sore ears. My wife had some cheapie earbuds that came with her portable CD player so I figured what the heck. Plugged them into the front analog panel and they worked, but volume extremely low. Did the steps you outlined and bingo. So loud I had to actually turn the volume down. Checking the Loudness Equalization probably kicked the volume up 50% by itself. Thanks for the post.

 

[runbei]

...Except not all RealTek's have the HD Audio Manager

I solved the problem of low volume on my ThinkPad T430 by simply uninstalling the Realtek driver. Windows 7 then defaulted to the Windows sound manager which I find provides better sound quality, with more controls, and plenty of volume when Loudness Equalization and Bass Boost are turned on: right-click speaker icon in Taskbar > Playback devices > highlight the device in use > click Enhancements tab > select Bass Boost and Loudness Equalization.

 

[del92sc]

This post is saving lives since 2013, I registered here just to say ; Thank you sir !