While it was initially meant as a communications program for gamers, Discord has since become quite popular amongst all people who use the program to communicate daily.

Considering Discord focuses on voice and video communication just as much as it does on text, the program has some pretty interesting features to make the user’s life easier.

That said, not all features work as well as they should. In this article, we’re talking about Automatic Gain Control (AGC) in Discord, what it does, whether or not you should use it and how you can enable or disable it in the program.

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What is Automatic Gain Control (AGC)?

Automatic Gain Control, AGC, increases or decreases your audio signal (or gain) to ensure consistent quality and volume when transmitting audio or any other signal over a channel.

On Discord, the program will automatically increase or decrease the quality of your audio over the server based on when it anticipates a drop in connection quality or mic volume.

This also works the other way around, meaning if the output voice from your mic is too high, the program will automatically reduce it so that it doesn’t sound overly loud to other people on the server.

Should you enable it?

While the feature sounds helpful initially, many people complain about inconsistent audio volume and automatic cut-offs when using the feature. Therefore, it’s best not to use it unless you think you need that extra gain in your mic’s output.