My Microphone Suddenly Stops Working?

iorthodox · Nov 10, 2018

I was talking to my friend over discord and I don't know when it happened, but I realized that my mic wasn't working.

I use this headset:
https://www.amazon.com/Headset-compatible-controller-Cancelling-Headphones/dp/B07GX6P768

with a slitter adapter, since the audio jack has three rings and I had to split them for my front I/O.
I tried moving and turning the jacks left and right, even at the adapter part, but nothing wasn't working. My audio is perfectly fine - I'm watching videos with the same quality as before - it just seems to be my microphone that's affected. When I tried going to the recording devices, the mic is still there. When I went to properties, and clicked on "Listen to this device," all I hear back is static, and the more I increase the boost the more it rapes my ears. When I increase the boost and it kills my ears, my friend over discord can apparently hear it too. Does anyone know what the heck is going on?

QwerkyPengwen · Nov 10, 2018

well obviously your friend heard the static.
Not like he can't hear your mic. If when doing listen to this device, it's not a thing that magically redirects all audio back to your headphones but instead just listens to whatever is going through, so when you upped the gain on the mic, he hears that but so do you because you've got the listen function activated.

Now as for your issue with the mic not properly picking up audio.... have you tried restarting the PC?

Could just be that the mic is dead.
Headset is of unknown generic brand and looks like it was very cheap in cost when it was available.

Plug headset into either PS4 or Xbox One controller and see if it works on that.
If so, then it could end up being either the adapter, the mic input jack on the PC, or if not a hardware issue, then perhaps a glitch in software.

But try just restarting PC first then move on from there.

iorthodox · Nov 10, 2018

QwerkyPengwen :

well obviously your friend heard the static.
Not like he can't hear your mic. If when doing listen to this device, it's not a thing that magically redirects all audio back to your headphones but instead just listens to whatever is going through, so when you upped the gain on the mic, he hears that but so do you because you've got the listen function activated.

Now as for your issue with the mic not properly picking up audio.... have you tried restarting the PC?

Could just be that the mic is dead.
Headset is of unknown generic brand and looks like it was very cheap in cost when it was available.

Plug headset into either PS4 or Xbox One controller and see if it works on that.
If so, then it could end up being either the adapter, the mic input jack on the PC, or if not a hardware issue, then perhaps a glitch in software.

But try just restarting PC first then move on from there.

I've tried restarting my PC and still nothing. I've discovered that if I blast music from Youtube that they can clearly hear it

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