The Soundblaster Z does not allow for both connections to be enabled at once, so you'll have to toggle which one is enabled depending on which jack you wish to use. The Front Panel Microphone jack is now enabled, whilst your Rear Microphone/Line In Jack (the one on the back of the Soundcard) is now disabled. Make sure Front Microphone is selected then select 'OK'. You have three options here Front Microphone, Rear Microphone and Rear Line-In.

A menu should pop-up saying 'Configure the multipurpose input device as:'. To the right of that there should be a small square button. There should be a drop-down menu at the top, below the text 'Select a recording device'. In the Sound Blaster Z-Series Control Panel, select 'Crystal Voice' from the left side of the Control Panel.Ģ. If you can hear yourself, it's working fine and you'll just need a Y Splitter, otherwise, continue to Sound Blaster Z Setupġ. Test it out as if it was a normal Microphone, such as using the Sound Blaster Z-Series Control Panel to 'Test' playback of the Microphone. The soundcard will be detected with the currently latest kernel 5.8.14. I was facing similar problem in my moto g 1st generation with Mic only. Free-washing machine-not working 0 Sound BlasterX G6 100 Mod Mic 30 (saint charles) 3. This should then enable your Headphones built-in Microphone to work, although your Headphones won't be able to playback anything whilst doing this of course. I have the Sound Blaster Z installed in my computer. The Sound BlasterX G6 has the best audio performance of any USB sound card or gaming DAC in the market.

If only 1 Jack, you'll need to purchase a Y Splitter (One Female 3.5mm Jack to Two Male 3.5mm Jacks) as to separate the Headphone and Microphone outputs from each other.īut before you go out and do that, plug your Headphones into the Microphone Jack on your case. I'm sure you would know this already and tried it out and found it doesn't work. Connect the Microphone Jack (Usually Pink or has a Microphone icon on it) to the Microphone Jack on your case. If 2 Jacks, connect the Headphone Jack (Usually Green or has a Headphone icon on it) to the Headphone Jack on your case. So your Headphones have a Microphone as part of them? If so, does the Headphones connection use 1 Jack or 2 Jacks?

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