Microphone refusing to work on new build

Vicxas

Hi all,

Recently bought a new sound card for my PC. An Asus Xonar DGX. The sound is great out of speakers and the likes, but when I try to connect my Microphone it refuses to pic my voice up. Ive disabled the Front Panel MIC but all I get is incredible white noise when I do.

I did manage to get it to pick up my voice once but it was surrounded by white noise and kept repeating like an echo.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

CreepingDeath

Vicxas wrote: »

Recently bought a new sound card for my PC.

You may have to disable any sound card built into your motherboard too.
Check your bios settings for some form of "Audio disable" setting.

Vicxas wrote: »

Ive disabled the Front Panel MIC but all I get is incredible white noise when I do.

Make sure you're not getting feedback by putting the microphone in front of the speakers.

Also, assuming you've got Windows 7...
right click on the speaker icon in the task bar and select "Recording Devices".
One should be labelled the default recording device.
Click on properties, and there's a few settings you can alter, in particular anything saying "amplify" or "levels".

The microphone is probably being amplified too much.

Vicxas

Ive turned everything down and the white noise is gone, but the echo is destroying the quality of the playback.... I'm starting to wonder if this headset is any use with this sound card.

Funny thing is they're both Asus.

demanufactured

Did you disable the onboard soundcard?

Vicxas

Yeah on board is disabled.

I ran the headset through the front panel headset with the onboard turned on and I was still getting the mad echo and reverb. Could it be the Mic on the headset thats faulty?

CreepingDeath

Does your sound card have multiple input sockets?

Are you mixing up the microphone socket with the line in socket?

Vicxas

CreepingDeath wrote: »

Does your sound card have multiple input sockets?

Are you mixing up the microphone socket with the line in socket?

Nope it just has the Pink, Green, Black and Orange. And an SPDIF out. So no room for error i'm afraid

Dravokivich

Could be a driver issue. Take it you've double checked that?

CreepingDeath

Dravokivich wrote: »

Could be a driver issue. Take it you've double checked that?

+1

I just looked up the product page for that sound card... not sure if the amp is for microphone, headphone or both...

3 headphone AMP gain modes for different usage scenarios - VOIP, pro-gaming, exciter

Vicxas

Found the cause. Headset is absolutely knackered.

Brought it to a friend of mine who has the same headset. It's completely wrecked. Hopefully this is the whole cause of the issue.