My friends can hear my in game sound but not me

[Shifted30]

I just got a new pc for gaming purposes but i cant talk to my friends through skype. The initial problem was that my headphones only had one 3.5 jack so i bough a splitter. I hooked it up to my sound card and it didnt work. The mic can only hear computer sounds such as music and stuff but not my voice. The weirdest thing is that if i talk through where the sound comes from they can hear me. Please help i have no idea how to fix it.

 

[Lutfij]

The initial problem was that my headphones only had one 3.5 jack so i bough a splitter. I hooked it up to my sound card and it didnt work.

It sounds like you got a 3.5mm splitter whereby the mic and audio out are output through a single 3.5mm female connector and connected it to the back of your sounds card. This will make one of your audio outputs as a microphone. In essence you just flipped the physics behind a speaker and made it into a mic(humbly speaking).

Can you please pass on your full systems specs inclusive of your OS and audio equipment?