Audio Microphone.Start() not working properly!

I've been frustrated with this for months now, and I have read every forum and tried multiple solutions. Nothing is working! Maybe this is a bug? IDK...
I am trying to have Unity playback microphone audio when the user presses a button. Then have the microphone stop "recording" to an audioclip once the button is pressed again. Sounds simple.
I am using

Code (CSharp):

1. _audioSource.clip = Microphone.Start(chosenDevice, true, 10, maxFreq);

From what I understand the "true" bool means that the audioclip will record over itself after 10 seconds has been reached. So in theory, real-time microphone playback.
I use this to play the audio from the microphone:

Code (CSharp):

1. while (!(Microphone.GetPosition(null) > 0)) { }
2.     Debug.Log("Start Mic(pos): " + Microphone.GetPosition(null));
3.     _audioSource.Play();

THE PROBLEM: The microphone starts playing like it should. Then after 10 seconds or so, the microphone stops recording. If the _audioSource.clip is set to loop, it just starts repeating the 10 seconds or so of the previously recorded AudioClip. After this happens you can no longer "record" with the mic.
On windows, a microphone icon pops up in the tray when an application is using the microphone. When you first start the app and press the mic button to start microphone playback, the mic icon in the tray appears. After 10 seconds or so the mic icon disappears. When I try to start the mic back up, the mic icon appears for 1 second then disappears.

Is anyone else having this issue or is it just me? Its so frustrating because it seems like it should be a simple thing! Even if I remove the while statement and just use _audioSource.Play(), it does the same thing.

 

EDIT: Okay... This may be an issue with having mixers with effects on them active in the scene. I tried Microphone.Start() in a new clean project and it works perfectly. On my main project I have the microphone audiosource running through a mixer that is past to the Master that has Echo and Reverb on it.
Could that be the issue? I have tried to disable both effects on main project and still the same problem... but that is the only thing I can think of at the moment.

 

@EIONtech1 any updates here? Been hitting similar walls recently

 

I have the same issue...

 

Ended up using a third party because Microphone by unity is glitchy and has those looping issues.

Works well with Natdevice asset on the asset store

 

I've just found that the AudioMixer shows the AudioListener component is inactive when that happens.

You can apparently disable 'Auto Mixer Suspend' on the AudioMixer asset in Project, which will disable that feature designed to save on processing power https://forum.unity.com/threads/audio-mixers-are-inactive.673120/



Also, in Edit > Project settings > Audio, you will have that option which could cause a similar issue, note that in Build it would work properly.



STILL...
Now the AudioListener isn't inactive, but the issue persists... Muting/unmuting the microphone AudioSource (or disabling/enabling it, not sure which one) kinda solves the problem, but introduces a huge Latency... Maybe need to rerun a Setup of it's parameters then.
Still... I can't find a way to detect when the AudioSource stops capturing and then resetup it by code.

 

Setting the AudioSource of the Microphone to loop = true as well seems to fix the problem on top of the solution above.