Microphone doesn't work with SB

Recently I bought Sound Blaster Audigy SE to upgrade from my onboard Realtek. To my surprise (though not so big, as I will explain later) the microphone from my Creative HS 300 Headset doesn't work (headphones do work), no matter what I try. All the latest drivers are installed, all the options in "mixer" checked (I mean I muted some of the devices, than the others... nothing). My "surprise" wasn't entirely unexpected since I've had the same problem with previous SB soundcard, namely Li've 5.. The mic didn't work no matter what, but on the onboard audio it worked flawlessly, so I had to use two sound devices. I mean jeeezz.... don't the guys from Creative know how to make their own stuff work together ? If anyone could help me, I would appreciate, in other case I'm returning this piece of ***** to the retailer.Message Edited by Dale-CL on 0-24-2006 03:55 PM

alfiq,
There are several possibilities, but I'd say none are good solutions for your situation. You could get a microphone transformer for under $20. Do a web search, and you'll find a lot of them. Unfortunately, all I could find were XLR-to-stereo, and I assume your mic has a /8 inch stereo plug. Otherwise, putting several 0kOhm resisters in parallel with the mic input would divide the impedance. So that might work, but you'd have to build it yourself. You could pass the mic input through an external mixer, but mixers are expensi've. Like I said, these are not good solutions. Sorry.
alfiq wrote:
Ok, so how do I make it right (if it's even possible) ? Creative does not give any warning of such incompatibility of their devices and I am totally in black here.

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