deep buzzing sound when using microphone

[caramba22242]

Help My 2 year old grand-daughter is driving me mad trying to help me fix my microphone.

When we record a nursary rhyme for example using Audiocity, on playback we get this deep buzzing sound and you can hardly hear the song.

I have tried MS help and it suggests going to control panel, Speech, and select speech recognition tab, which I don't have although I'm using XP edition.

Any thoughts are welcome. thank you

[peanut]

its very possible that you are using the wrong microphone or the mic is not plugged in all the way. microphones come in stereo and monoral, the stereo ones have a 3 section plug and monorals have a two section plug. im sure you need stereo. if you look at the plug you will see what im talking about. there will be a longer section closest to the cord and either one or two more toward the tip and they are only seperated by a small ring. hope this helps you.

[caramba22242]

not that peanut. it worked before and it is still plugged in securely to the same plughole

[dodgyshirt]

It might be a problem with your speakers rather than the mike. If the speakers or cables are not of the shielded type, various things can cause interference, the symptoms of which are usually a loud buzzing sound. Have you moved the speakers themselves too near the monitor or placed any electrical items such as a cordless or mobile phone too near the speakers. Re-routing the cables away from any extraneous source can often solve it.