Voice Recording Problem

[belzhajz]

hi all,
i'm stuck with a strange problem. my mic records everything that is played via multimedia applications, such as Audacity, totem, etc...
but isn't recording my voice. can anyone tell me why this happens?

I am using ubuntu focal 20.04, have alsa & pulseaudio installed

please help.
thank you

[ajgreeny]

It's not possible to help you without much more information shout your hardware and software so as a start please show us the output of terminal command

inxi -Fxz

. Please use code tags for the pasted output -see my signature below for a how-to.