Turtle Beach Z11 Earforce microphone detected but doesn't work

[GammaLambdaBeta]

I recently purchased a Turtle Beach headset from Amazon and when I plugged it into my desktop with the adapter for headset and mic, only the headset portion works. In the recording devices tab, it is detected and set to default, yet it isn't picking up any sound. I've learned that if I jiggle the cord around a little, it does transmit a sound over Comms similar to white noise or static but still not my voice.

I've already tried un-installing all of the audio drivers and reinstalling them with no luck.

Any assistance with this is much appreciated as I would like to get this working so I don't have to use my terrible webcam mic anymore.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The adapter is for devices that support Speakers/Mic all in one connector; like is common on Phones/Tablets/Music Players.

Desktop and Laptops typically do not have that. These devices should have a separate analog jack for each Speakers/Headphones/Mic and as such the adapter you speak of should not be needed. To hear yourself from the Mic you need to un-mute the Mic under Playback. Which normally u do not want and it mostly for test purposes.

For Windows ensure of what the Default is for Playback & Recording. But also, each App (such as TeamSpeak, Skype, Steam) may have options of their own which all must be set, as the OS defaults might might auto-apply to certain apps.