Ok I've had this problem since day 1 and have pretty much given up on any hope for this mic, I bought this mic so i could have better quality audio when I record my gaming videos and yet every time I try to record or use it on my chat programs the **** thing is so quite that to get any sound to be picked up it has to pretty much be in my mouth. Now to give an idea of the situation I'm using a PC first off and its a desktop not a laptop like a lot of the other problems I've seen here about this mic and second I don't have a bunch of audio equipment or any other kind of recording studio gear just me, my computer and the mic. I've tried plugging it into my guitar amp but it pretty much did nothing at all so ya if there is a free software I can download to increase the volume of the mic that'd be great but I will also be using this while in chat programs such as Skype, Ventrilo or Mumble so of course it has to produce the same level of volume in all of these things. At the moment I am forced to use the mic from my Turtle Beach x11 Earforce headset which is not the best quality but it's not bad and picks up everything I say from about 10ft away. So if anyone can give me an answer that helps with this that isn't blatantly obvious like going into the recording devices section of my computer and changing things there because I've done that already (enhancements available DC offset cancellation/ Advanced set to 3 channel, 16 bit, 192000 Hz).

Audio Players & Recorders - Samson - R21S Microphone