Audio won't work on imovie

okay so i've been using imovie for a few months and the audio stopped working a few days ago. When i try to record a video the camera works where i can see myself but i cant hear myself. The old videos i've already recorded still work as in the audio is fine but this new one doesn't. ive recorded other tester vids since the one on imovie that wont work and the other testers don't work as well. I have an imoive 08.
Also the same exact problem started on my photo booth today.
I've tried restarting my computer and the volume is fine.
Help?

A bizarre false alarm. After spending 3 hours running utilities, checking download reinstallers info. etc., turned out to be hardware connection. Had fitted a mono plug to a stereo plug for mono recorder monitoring for both ears. Original track on video was in mono feeding out on one channel. That channel wasn't the one the mono plug was feeding through, hence no audio on the mono clips. Yes, should have set the audio to mono on the original mono iMovie clips.
A reminder to check every little hardware issue first.
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