Detachable headset mic not being detected

A_Useless_Mess

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So I recently bought the LucidSound ls25 headset. This headset comes with a detachable mic which can be plugged/unplugged via a port on the bottom of the left cup.

Additionally, the headset comes with 2 cables. One cable is just a 3.5mm cable for plugging into your phone/laptop.

The second cable has a 3.5mm jack on one end to plug into the headset and the other end splits into a mic and audio cable for plugging into your motherboard.

So I come home and hook the headset up and all seemed well, Realtek was detecting the mic and headphones so I hop into discord and nobody can hear me. After messing around with my recording/playback devices I realize that despite Realtek is detecting the mic it's not picking up any audio coming in.

Could this be a hardware problem (in which case I don't know what I'm gonna do since I bought this headset at PAX South) or is it some software mcguffin I've overlooked?

Any suggestions are appreciated, I don't want to have to rely on my webcam mic.

So I plug just the mic into my pc's front mic panel and it works?
 

A_Useless_Mess

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I have the splitter connected, as I said in the post the mic and headphones are connected to their proper jacks.

 

A_Useless_Mess

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I'm using the cable that came in the box, everything is plugged in right. Drivers have been verified, as far as software goes it seems to be all green.

If it's a hardware issue I may be boned.