mic problem

EdGey

EdGey

EdGey

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hey guys.

When i try and use my mic i get a really fussy wierd noise in the background. really loud so you can hardly hear my voice and its anoying. the mic itself isnt fualty as its brand new and ive tested other mics to see if it happend with them too and it did:( my sound is good, no problems there, its just for some reason the mics went wieerdd.

i first thought mabye i should update my sound drivers? but then even if i wanted to i have no idea which ones to get or where from.

i have onboard sound and my motherboard is a P5K-E if that helps at all.

can anyone help?

thanks
 
Sounds like a bad ground, though what you do about that on a PC I have no idea.

Sorry to ask the obvious, but.......
It IS the pink socket you're using?
Have you tried enabling/disabling the mic-boost in the standard windows mixer?
 
Might sound daft, but do you have a line level source you can plug into it?
(for $DEITY's sake be careful and start with the volume RIGHT down on the source).

If that produces the same signal to noise ratio as the mic, it's safe to say the mic channel is not being corretly selected, or is muted somewhere along the way, as all you are hearing is crosstalk.
If you get a normal sounding signal, the mic socket's gone line level on you for some reason.
If you get deafened, with distorted racket then there's something deeper going on, as that would indicate a correctly functioning mic socket.


One other possibility just occurred to me......make sure all the 3d flummy gubbins and surround doodadary is switched firmly off. Some cards reverse the direction of inputs, making them outputs when in 5:1 or 7:1 or 768:4 or whatever they're trying to sell this year....that would produce the precise symptoms you describe.
 
nothing ir workin :(:(

ive had a thought. i was thinking of getting a sound card before this problem. and now seems the time to buy one. would this fix the problem?

:confused:
 
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