Reported precisely: on the air the voice is well clear of the noise; in the
recording the noise is louder than the voice. Same audio, so the fault is in how
it is captured, not in what is captured.
AUDCLNT_STREAMFLAGS_SRC_DEFAULT_QUALITY was set alongside AUTOCONVERTPCM. The
name reads like a sensible default and is not: it selects the CHEAP sample-rate
converter, for cases where quality does not matter. Taking a rig's 48 kHz stream
down to our 16 kHz, it folds everything above 8 kHz back into the audio band —
and receiver hiss is mostly high frequencies. The voice keeps its level, the
noise arrives twice.
Dropped, so Windows uses its normal converter, which filters before decimating.
This affects every capture and render path in the app, the voice keyer included.
rouggy