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Hi, I have a Creative I-Trigue 3400 speaker system with a woofer, 2 speakers, and a volume control knob.

The knob has headphone and mic-in jacks to plug your headset into, but the microphone cannot work because it is not connected to the computer I'm pretty sure. I think I saw an article on how to do this ages ago when I looked it up but I can't find it now and am not even sure what to look up.

I'll describe how the wiring is to you. The volume control knob and the speakers are wired into the back of the woofer. The woofer is wired into the outlet and also has a green plug going into the back of my desktop.

But since I don't think the knob is directly connected to the pc a microphone won't work but sound for a headset does. Is there a way to wire this to change this?

Thanks.
 
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in the user manual here http://ccftp.creative.com/manualdn/Manuals/TSD/8308/0xD0DE68DB/I-Trigue%203400%20Quick%20Start%20Multilingual.pdf you will see that this is not a "microphone" jack but an "auxilliary" input jack.

if you follow the connection diagram how it is listed what it allows you to do is to connect up a mp3 player or other 3.5mm device to play out your speakers.

now, you CAN likely use it as a mic jack if on page 2 instead of connecting the one cable to "b" the aux in on the back of the subwoofer you instead connect it up to the pink "mic" jack on your computer it should then act just like a 3.5mm extension cable and allow you to plug any 3.5mm microphone into it from either a desk mic or headset.
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in the user manual here http://ccftp.creative.com/manualdn/Manuals/TSD/8308/0xD0DE68DB/I-Trigue%203400%20Quick%20Start%20Multilingual.pdf you will see that this is not a "microphone" jack but an "auxilliary" input jack.

if you follow the connection diagram how it is listed what it allows you to do is to connect up a mp3 player or other 3.5mm device to play out your speakers.

now, you CAN likely use it as a mic jack if on page 2 instead of connecting the one cable to "b" the aux in on the back of the subwoofer you instead connect it up to the pink "mic" jack on your computer it should then act just like a 3.5mm extension cable and allow you to plug any 3.5mm microphone into it from either a desk mic or headset.
 
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WOW! I am amazed you were able to come up with this solution. Thank you so much, ssddx!

I have a different computer now with "Realtek HD Audio Manager" and I can't even get it to play sound out my headphones when I plug it directly into the top of the computer. I wanted to just use the volume control knob inputs instead but previously I had only been able to get headphone sound out of it, never have my mic work.

Having that plug not in the back of the subwoofer isn't missing out on anything is it? Doesn't seem like it. Everything seems to work. Thank you so much!
 
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no, you are perfectly fine with not having it plugged into your subwoofer.

that cable essentially is doing nothing by itself as its only an extension cable anyways.

if you wanted to use the aux input for your speaker system you could just plug into that B jack on the back of your subwoofer directly. all the cable did is act as an extension so that you could plug in on a convenient to reach jack instead of having to bend down and plug into the subwoofer.
 
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