Echo Cancellation behaves oddly
Context
To my knowledge, Echo Cancellation in a nutshell is a feature that takes my audio frequencies and removes them from incoming audio. Thus, if you are talking when another person is talking, their voice may sound distorted as those frequencies are removed. It works great when other parties are not talking, but that distortion... is not desirable.
The primary person I am in call with uses closed back headphones and thus, there is rarely an echo. The only time there is echo is when I'm being a bit loud. As Discord's Echo Cancellation is unable to detect when there actually is an echo, I turned it off to prevent the distortion happening frequently.
Problem
Turning off Echo Cancellation causes another issue which seems to be very unintended. Other parties would report that my voice would be quieter when I am watching their stream. I thought I checked all settings and found no cause but a double check revealed that when Echo Cancellation is disabled, watching streams will reduce the volume of your voice.
This doesn't make any sense to me. Why would my voice be affected by that one setting in that way? It doesn't make my voice sound bad, it's just quieter.
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I have a question in case we may be facing the same glitch - when you say "distorted", do you mean broken up and robotic-sounding, or does it sound like the other person or people are across the room from their mic when they speak? Echo Cancellation isn't a feature I've tried fiddling with yet since it really doesn't seem like it'd be the culprit, so that's why I ask.
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Their voice (high pitch) becomes low and croaky sounding, it doesn't sound distant. A similar effect happens when a party is listening to audio without headphones and Discord is actively trying to cancel it out from their microphone audio - the remaining audio is in some cases very inaudible.
However, I don't necessarily consider that an issue. It's designed to cancel out echo, and if Discord happens to cancel out frequencies that are in both parties voices, that definitely can result in their voice sounding inaudible. I'm not sure if Discord does a comprehensive check but if both parties have similar frequencies in their audio, it can be hard to decipher what is a true echo in real time. It does suck, but if you care about audio quality then preventing echo in the first place is ultimately the better option.
A cutting in and out with high frequencies thrown in (what I would call robotic) is very reminiscent of an inadequate connection, usually due to it being slow. Especially if it happens randomly and not specifically when you're talking.
My problem is when echo cancellation is turned off, that it makes my microphone audio significantly lower in volume than when it's turned on. That sort of behaviour makes zero sense, and affects recording quality if I have their stream open, even if it's muted.
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