Author Topic: Headsets don't work for me D:  (Read 2031 times)

My first headset is a Halo 2 gaming headset, it got broke after a few months or so, but the wires are still connected, it's just the plastic piece holding the mic on the left headphone is broke, so my brother glued it, so now it stays up instead of dangling, sometime last year, i tried getting it to work on the PC, for some reason, no matter what i did, it wouldn't work, i tried putting the volume on it all the way up, i tried setting it as the default recording device, anything that had to do with sound and microphones/headsets, didn't work, so sever months later, i got a new headset, same problem happens, set as default recording device, made sure volumes were up, and it still didn't work, and just recently, i tried the Halo 2 headset on the Laptop, i had all the microphone and sound volumes up, it was very low, no matter what i did, i couldn't get it to go any higher, the only thing that works that i can use as a mic is the Rock Band microphone, i haven't gotten to try my second headset on the Laptop though, i'll have to check that out when i get a chance

tl;dr: Both of my headsets don't work, no matter what i do and only the Rock Band mic works for me

Why is this? D:
« Last Edit: January 20, 2009, 10:19:55 PM by Masterlegodude »

no error messages appear because there is no software needed to download. The computer simply recognizes the headset as a set of sound output. as for the mic, well same issue, no software needed, no error messages.

no error messages appear because there is no software needed to download. The computer simply recognizes the headset as a set of sound output. as for the mic, well same issue, no software needed, no error messages.
Hmm, alright, i thought it had something to do with that

Now if only i could figure out why they don't work...

Try Googling your headset model, and possible problems.
Ex.
"Model blah blah headset requirements on Vista/XP" or something.

In any case, buy a new one if nothing pans out. At least that way you'll have another one handy. Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it. ;)

Bump

http://www.plantronics.com/north_america/en_US/products/computer/multi-use-headsets/audio-355

That's my headset, i have it plugged into the laptop, the microphone wire into the microphone port and the headphones wire into the headphones port on the side, i go to Audacity, i choose to record with Aux, Microphone, Line In, etc. but nothing worked, i made sure the volume on my headset was on and i made sure the microphone itself was on, i also made sure the volume settings were un-muted and to the max volume, still nothing, i don't know why, i check every volume thing in the Control Panel, nothing, why is this happening? :(

Also, i'ma go check out my headset's FAQs nao FAQs = no help at all
« Last Edit: January 22, 2009, 09:05:00 AM by Masterlegodude »

Do you have audacity installed? I've had it mess around with input before, I've occasionally played music or even echoed incoming voice chat. I find that changing the input from what-u-hear to microphone fixes it.

Do you have audacity installed? I've had it mess around with input before, I've occasionally played music or even echoed incoming voice chat. I find that changing the input from what-u-hear to microphone fixes it.
The only recording devices Audacity has for the laptop is CD Player, Microphone, Aux, Line In, Phone, Mono Out, and Wave Out Mix

I tried them all, none work, with Microphone, it did work, but it was really low, but as i've previously said, all volumes everywhere on the laptop is at max, the only way i could hear the low recording is if i used the amplifier once or twice




Tom

Are you sure you have it plugged into a Mic Jack, not a line in. The mic jack has more voltage or something like that, while the line in is unpowed.

i read your problem an' nao im saying "k"
Get out. There was no point in saying that.

Get out. There was no point in saying that.
This

Are you sure you have it plugged into a Mic Jack, not a line in. The mic jack has more voltage or something like that, while the line in is unpowed.
Hmm, a line in thing would be a small round hole to plug in stuff that isn't a USB plug? One hole is the microphone port and the other is the headphones port, that's all i see that the headset can plug into