Does the USB microphone have a headphone jack? If so then the microphone likely expects you to use the headphone jack so you can experience latency free audio monitoring.

All audio may be automatically routed to the USB microphone headphone jack every time you plug the microphone into any of the USB ports of your computer. The microphone has a built-in digital mixer that accepts digital audio from the computer, digital audio from the microphone, mixes the two digital audio streams together and sends the mixed audio through a digital to analog conversion, a headphone amplifier and the headphone jack. The mixer also converts the microphone analog audio to digital and sends a digital audio stream of the microphone to the computer.

The really neat thing is the mixer, audio conversion and headphone amplifier is likely contained all inside one integrated circuit like +++ THIS +++ .


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