Headphone Y splitter not picking up voice. Please help!

[emerald_piggy]

I have headphones with a microphone that has 1 output 3.5mm jack. My PC has a separate mic and headphone jack. So I bought a splitter cable off of amazon for like $5 that I plug my headphones into and it splits it. I plug it in and I can hear fine out of it but when I try to speak in discord nobody can hear me. I checked the sound settings and when I talk it doesn't pick up anything. This is the splitter I got https://www.amazon.com/Maeline-Female-Plated-Headphone-Splitter/dp/B00PYZ2BT4/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1502116458&sr=8-5&keywords=3.5mm+y+splitter. Any solutions? Thanks!

 

[androbourne]

Did the splitter come with drivers? Are they installed?

What type of headphones are you using?

 

[emerald_piggy]

the splitter doesn't have drivers. I'm using Sony MDR noise cancelling headphones. They're bluetooth but my PC doesn't have bluetooth so I use the cable.

 

[androbourne]

If you disconnect the headphone jack but only leave the MIC jack plugged in. Can you see your voice bars moving in the Sounds Playback section when you do an audio test?

Is is possible the voice input device is disabled in the properties of Windows?

 

[emerald_piggy]

The problem is definitely the splitter because when I take the splitter out and plug my headphones straight into the mic jack it picks up sound fine, but if I have the splitter plugged into just the mic jack and my headphones plugged into the splitter no sound picks up is there a way I can fix this?

 

[faalin]

How many segments does your headphone jack have? If its set up right should have tip-left, first ring-right, second ring-ground, third ring-mic. If its set up like that then you would need this splitter https://www.amazon.com/CablesOnline-4-Position-3-Position-Splitter-IP-AY12C/dp/B00N03ZYUU

 

[emerald_piggy]

this is weird but I was fiddling with the splitter and I found out that if I plug the headphone side of the splitter into the mic jack and the headphone side of the splitter into the headphone jack it would register the sound but now I can't hear anything. I was looking in the sound settings and it basically registers both jacks as mics now.

 

[emerald_piggy]

It has two but I don't think that is the problem because when I plug it into my tablet (no splitter) I can both talk and listen.

 

[faalin]

looking into these a little more they are meant for Iphones/pads/macs and have a very different plug end MIC- (tip), Speaker+(ring 1), Mic+(ring 2) and ground (end part).

Dont think you will ever find a spliter for these for a normal PC

 

[androbourne]

Maybe like he said it isn't meant for PC. However just from experience, it should most likely work.

I was looking at the headphones on Amazon and under "frequently brought together" it shows aux splitter.

https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Speaker-Headphone-Audio-Splitter/dp/B000067RC4/ref=pd_bxgy_23_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B000067RC4&pd_rd_r=A9XHBRJS4B0RGNK0DGKN&pd_rd_w=L2Jfv&pd_rd_wg=Udjvl&psc=1&refRID=A9XHBRJS4B0RGNK0DGKN

Compare it with what you purchased and see if anything is different. Maybe something about this splitter will be more compatible for PC use.