microphone problem

[Guest]

I have a microphone attached to my computer. When I talk
into it, I can hear it in the speaker. But when I use the
sound recorder, it does not detect this mic.

I have used the sound device dectector in the
soundblaster, which also could not detect this mic. but i
am sure the mic is ok since i cear my voice in the speaker.

machine specification:

soundcard: creative soundblaster 16 Plug&play
Location: on VIA Tech PCI to ISA bridge
processor: amd k7
windows xp professional

please help me

monon

 

[Stephen Harris]

I have a microphone attached to my computer. When I talk
into it, I can hear it in the speaker. But when I use the
sound recorder, it does not detect this mic.

I have used the sound device dectector in the
soundblaster, which also could not detect this mic. but i
am sure the mic is ok since i cear my voice in the speaker.

machine specification:

soundcard: creative soundblaster 16 Plug&play
Location: on VIA Tech PCI to ISA bridge
processor: amd k7
windows xp professional

please help me

monon

You are not supposed to hear the mic in the speakers.
When you use sound recorder correctly with a mic
you don't hear anything but see some wavy green
lines move as you are recording. You save that file.
That use windows explorer to double-click on
that file. It will open something like Real Player or
Windows Media Player to play the recording back
through the speakers. If you have a desktop then
you need the speakers plugged in and turned on
and nothing muted.

You probably have some settings which are not
right for Recording and Playback. In win98 this
is in Control Panel --> Multimedia and in xp it is
in control panel --> Sound and audio Devices
You need your soundcard drivers properly installed.

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