Recently bought the antlion modmic 4.0 to use with my Sennhiesser 558 headphones. When i go to plug in the mic to the motherboard it wont even register in my settings that anything is even plugged it. Same thing happens when i plug it into the front panel mic jack. Tried the mic on my mac to make sure it worked and it indeed works. My next course of action was to buy a cheap(6$) USB sound card that had both a headphone and mic jack on it. The mic works when plugged up to the USB sound card. Only problem is the mic sounds like i am talking into a fishbowl or cup. A very muffled sound. This mic is not of potato quality and i feel like i am doing something wrong on my part. A friend tells me i should go buy a decent sound card for like 30-50$. I have a 50$ best buy gift card so i am not to worried about spending the money.
I guess i really just need a second opinion on what to do next. Should i buy a better sound card? Is the cheap 6$ usb sound card causing my mic to sound like a potato quality?
This is a custom built PC i just put together about a month ago. I have been using a USB headset by razer which had an awesome mic but terrible sound quality
Specs:
I7 4790k
GTX 980 SC EVGA
GaG1 sniper z97 Gigabyte
16gb G. skill sniper
Corsair h100I
240gb SSD intel
WD 1tb Black
750 EVGA supernova G+