The reason I’m wondering if a different pair of earbuds or headphones will work is because I have a number of them lying around. Then I realized I might need a preamp? Do you think the earbud microphones are actually working in the line-in but are just extremely quiet? Can this be remedied with a different pair of earbuds or even headphones? Or is a preamp for this kind of situation necessary? Remember, this is a stand-alone PC sound card plugged into the motherboard of my desktop (running Win 7 Pro, although I doubt that’s necessary to bring up). Although when I tap or rubbing at the wires it does seem to pick up feedback in the X-Fi monitor and in Audacity in the proper left and right channels (which seems promising). Again I tried flipping the connections to see if it was backwards or something, but it just appears not to work. I’m assuming this is because the mic port is mono and can only pick up one half of the earbuds? I then tried plugging it into my old X-Fi XtremeMusic sound card which has a line-in but still nothing (and yes I tinkered with the X-fi settings to make sure they were configured right). I have tried swapping the cable colors on the mic to make sure they weren’t just backwards or something. When plugged into a microphone port, one side works, the other side does not. I am running into some problems however and wondering if someone could answer a few questions.įirst, I have started with an old pair of iPod earbuds (Gen 1/2) which I snipped, stripped, and soldered on “ Gino 9.7mm x 7mm 2 Pin MIC Capsule Electret Condenser Microphones”. Hello everyone, I am a music noob and non-engineer, and am attempting to build a simple binaural microphone.
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