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My buddies and I use Discord as an easy conference call group chat while playing games (no push to talk, mic is always on).

One thing I've found on the app is when a person/voice is far away from the mic it often glitches and doesn't send all of the audio data over like, for a example, a normal FaceTime Audio call would.

Not sure why this happens, but just thought I'd put that out in the ether.

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Sounds like you just need to adjust your microphone sensitivity settings? If you have the mic on voice activation and the person is far from their mic than it might be that they're just not loud enough (from the perspective of their microphone) to actually trigger Discord. That's my guess at least.

Ah, never thought of it like that. I always perceived it as a "always on" scenario. Just found it in the settings and I'll give it a try, thank you!

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