[PLUG] Yamaha CM500 headset: front microphone unplugged

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, Tomas Kuchta wrote:

> I do not have your hardware, so adjust to your colors ....

Tomas,

How about black and blue? :-_

> If your microphone is powered, and if your PC has line in input - you
> should connect the microphone to line-in.

The problem is that the front line-in port is either not connected or just
doesn't work. I replaced the speakers with the headphone on the rear
(motherboard) port, and the mic in the rear line-in and pavucontrol shows
the horizontal VU monitor fluctating with my voice and the radio in the
background.

> Microphone inputs are meant to be used with dynamic (not powered)
> microphones -- unless the port can autodetect and switch between
> microphone and line-in modes. Consult you motherboard documentation. That
> is why your powered microphone presence is not detected.

Well the Yamaha has a dynamic mic. I just removed the battery box from the
input line and this works.

> Your particular usage mode is being increasingly uncommon these days as
> most PCs do not have line-in, even stereo inputs, relying on USB headset
> and soundcards to provide these.

Yeah, well, I spent the money on this over-the-ears headset and now I know
that the Asus Prime X470 Pro motherboard will accept the microphone's input
and pass output to the headphones as long as I use those ports rather than
those on the case front.

All's good now.

Thanks very much for your insights,

Rich