How can I record sound from a connected headset on a laptop, and not from the laptop's built-in microphone?

Question

Audio

There is a laptop with an ordinary 3.5mm combo jack like on a smartphone, and there is a headset with a microphone and the same 3.5mm plug. When you connect it to a laptop, the reproduced sound, as it should be, goes to it instead of the laptop's speakers, but it is still recorded from the laptop's external microphones, and not from the headset microphone. By the way, the story is the same on a smartphone, but there is an exception - during a call without any settings, both the input and output of sound go through the headset automatically. And here's how to set everything up on the laptop in the same way?

Answer 1

I don’t know how it is on all laptops, but specifically for Acer Aspire A315-42 laptops (and possibly all Acer laptops), you need to download the Audio Driver driver and the Audio Console Driver application from the official website, install them, and when you connect headphones, a notification will pop up every time that how you want to use them, and in Headset mode, audio will be recorded from the headset. You don’t need to do anything in the Windows settings, there will still be one speaker output and one microphone input. The Audio Console Driver is a UWP application and to install it you need to double-click on the Install_UWP.cmd or Setup_APP.cmd file (one of them will give an error and the other will install the application, I just forgot who is who))

Answer 2

Settings - System - Sound - Input

Answer 3

In Windows, in the Control Panel, select the "Sound" icon and in the "Recording" tab, select the plug-in microphone as the default microphone, and not the built-in microphone.