Skype won't pick up microphone audio unless someth...

Hello Skype community! So I am having this REALLY strange problem. My Skype won't pick up any audio from my microphone unless something else is monitoring/using it. For instance, if I have my "Recording Devices" tab open under my sound settings, my microphone will work. Same for Sound Recorder. I can't figure out what's going on. I reinstalled drivers, I upgraded Skype, and I've plain turned my laptop off and on again. The same problem happens in the Skype app.
I'm running Windows 8.1, using the lastest version of Skype (7.5.0.102).
Anything else that uses my microphone works just fine without issues; it's just Skype, and I can't figure this out for the life of me. Any help? This is really frustrating me

The record level being grayed out means the interface is selected and the input level is controlled by the interface.
Did you choose the correct input channel?
Did you turn on monitoring?
Do you have the gain level turned up on the interface?

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