I have a Pioneer DM-DV20, It's my first microphone, I would like to record sounds with this mic connected to my Windows 10 laptop.
My laptop is a HP Pavilion 15 it has only a Realtek driver with one headphone jack like this.
Now, I have jack splitter wich looks like this, except that the rings on the jack are black.
When I connect the jack splitter to my computer, the Sound -> Recording menu shows that the mic is connected (the selected mic) (although I just connect the splitter and nothing else).
When I plug in the Pioneer DM-DV20 microphone to the jack splitters microphone part (rose red), it instantly shows "Not Connected", like here.
Therefore I cannot use the microphone, I have tried it in Audacity but it uses the inner mic of the laptop.
Also I have tried to plug the jack splitter + mic combo to my iPhone 7, but it didn't work at all. The only way I know that the mic is working is that I pluged it in one of my old laptops wich has a separate microphone port, It worked perfectly (both under Windows 10 and Windows 7).
Note that the microphone has an XLR connector with a 3.5 mm jack on it's end, thats what I used for these "tests".
What I've tried:
- Realtek driver update.
- Realtek driver removal.
- Getting Realtek HD Audio Manager on my laptop. (I still have none)
- Windows privacy settings. (Everything can use mic, I haven't changed that)
- Puting a headphone into the output part of the jack splitter while the mic part is connected to the mic. (No success, still using the inner mic of the laptop)
How can I make this microphone to work with my computer? Am I missing something?
