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Title: Mic won't work when muted..
Post by: Anodizer on July 27, 2010, 11:48:36 PM

I have a Plantronics headset..  Plugs into the back of my Sound Blaster 2 Audigy soundcard..  I have recently reformatted my machine..  I installed the latest driver from Creative..
The mic doesn't seem to work when it's muted..  Characteristically, the mic should still be active if muted..  All the muting does is silence the talkback you get from the mic(so you don't hear yourself
in your headphones)..  Let me rephrase: In AH it doesn't work when muted..  However, I can still record using my recording software while muted..  When I unmute the mic, people can hear me(and I can hear myself when tuned to myself)..  But again, I hear myself talking through my headphones(or speakers).. 
What's the deal?

Title: Re: Mic won't work when muted..
Post by: Sperky on July 28, 2010, 12:21:20 AM

Assuming you're using Windows... The playback mic is muted and the recording mic is not muted in the profiles?

Title: Re: Mic won't work when muted..
Post by: Chalenge on July 28, 2010, 12:32:50 AM

I think this problem is mostly related to XP and selecting the mic in playback as well as recording options (sound applet).

Title: Re: Mic won't work when muted..
Post by: SPKmes on July 28, 2010, 04:40:27 PM

I had this issue a couple of days ago...I ended up hitting the restore to factory settings to sort it...I have no Idea why it did it but it did and that was my fix.

Title: Re: Mic won't work when muted..
Post by: Anodizer on July 28, 2010, 11:29:00 PM

Quote from: SPKmes on July 28, 2010, 04:40:27 PM

I had this issue a couple of days ago...I ended up hitting the restore to factory settings to sort it...I have no Idea why it did it but it did and that was my fix.

This issue popped up on me out of nowhere about 3 months ago..  I reformatted the hard drive and reinstalled Windows XP with all updates(SP3, etc)..
Installed the latest drivers for the motherboard and the rest of the hardware(VideoCard, Soundcard, etc)..  Same issue as before.. 
Everything is set properly on my end as far as my 25 years of computer experience can tell me.. 
The exact same settings worked before and now they don't..  Even tried rolling back to an earlier sound card driver(Audigy 2) as well as the original driver from the
cd that it came with..  No joy.. 

Title: Re: Mic won't work when muted..
Post by: morfiend on July 29, 2010, 03:05:10 PM

 Ano I had this issue when I did a resent reformat,although I use vista 64.

 The fix was to delete the mic from the playback section of vista,but IIRC in xp all you need do is mute the mic in playback.

   :salute