USB Microphone cuts out all sound

I'm using Logic Express 8, with an MXL condenser microphone. At first everything worked fine. I could hear all the audio.
But now, when I plug in the microphone, it cuts off all sound. The computer is receiving an audio signal. Under preferences, USB Audio Codec is chosen.
I created an aggregate devise, but that didn't work. I chose the new aggregate devise in audio preferences. No luck.
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks,
Michael

I do not have your exact computer model or sound driver, but I can tell you what I did that fixed my microphone issues almost instantly for my G780!
My microphone also cut out during voip calls (such as Skype, G+ hangouts, etc) but my audio when using any type of recording software was fine!
So apparently for my laptop, there was a bit of additional software that was installed called Smart Audio which is also by Coaxant.
If you have this program, this is probably what is causing all the sporadic quality changes.
What I did:
-Open Smart Audio (it's not actually an installed program, it is a setting so I just searched for it in the start menu)
-Go over to the VOIP tab on the bottom, and click on Voice Over IP to DISABLE the features.
-The icon for the setting should now be disabled, along with microphone noise reduction and acoustic echo cancellation.
These settings in smart audio were the ones making my microphone sound so horrible. As soon as I disabled it, people on the other side of the chat immediately noticed a dramatic increase in overall quality!
Hope this helps!
-Clark

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