k0ala's mic doesn't work.

[k0ala]

(aka: It's Right Here, You Stupid Computer)

I've got Windows 7 x64, an MSI FX790 motherboard, and the Turtle Beach AASRM external USB sound module. Drives a Turtle Beach AK-R8 7.1 surround headset, which TF2 supports, and I love the shit out of it, so I can hear people above and behind me and know where to spray-n-pray.

The headset's microphone no longer transmits my voice in TF2.

I've been doing tech support and break/fix for a lot of years. So I've uninstalled it, reinstalled it. Deleted the drivers, redownloaded the drivers.

Got the Turtle Beach control panel. Cranked up the mic and turned on gain. Ditto with the Windows microphone in the mixer, and within the Options in TF2. Sliders are up, gain boosted in three separate check-boxes, and I spend a lot of time listening to myself breathe and swallow, but you guys still can't hear me. I've set it up for WIndows speech recognition, it stays in the green bar when I speak, so it's picking up my voice. I've turned off Exclusive Control in the device properties.

Suggest things to me.

[CaffeinePowered]

So you have onboard sound though correct?

Any you tried any stand alone mics using that?

[k0ala]

yeah there's a microphone jack in the top.

It's either the twenty dollar mic or the fifty dollar mic... hmmmm. I see there's a mic called the Blue Snowball. But that's for podcasters. I don't need CD-quality vocal richness to tell you all "SPY ME"

[CaffeinePowered]

yeah there's a microphone jack in the top.

It's either the twenty dollar mic or the fifty dollar mic... hmmmm. I see there's a mic called the Blue Snowball. But that's for podcasters. I don't need CD-quality vocal richness to tell you all "SPY ME"

This is what I use, i plugs into a normal microphone jack - http://cgi.ebay.com/ASUS-SOUNDMAX-SUPERB...27ace475ee


I like it a lot, but my question is why do you want to get a USB mic when you can use normal on-board stuff?

[k0ala]

Nothing really, just I wanted an integrated solution... But now that I think about it this mic has always been trouble. So it's good that I keep the best parts of this headset and upgrade the shitty part.

[CaffeinePowered]

I've always used separate pieces, I find headsets tend to impede things like drinking 

No reason you can't continue to use the headphones portion while replacing the mic

[k0ala]

This shit is awesome. I'm glad that you all can hear me.