My name is Peter Luff, callsign CGMTT, local airport Ottawa CYOW, a qualified instrument rated PPL in real world, trying out VATSIM as a relative newbie however. My problem is that I cannot get voice comms to work in my setup. This is FSX, windows7/64bit, FSINN/VATSIM client,using VROUTE to see network activity, Microsoft USB headset. Everything works very nicely i.e I can see all the other VATSIM traffic at any airport, I show up on the network after turning on VATSIM in the FSINN control box, I can text chat to and from any controllers who are online, my PTT button turns on a red transmit bar on the FSINN VVL comms bar as does someone trying to voice back to me, but no actual voice goes either way. I have tested the headset using my computer's voice record/playback utility and it works fine. I can also hear my own voice sidetone, my airplane's engine and any voice on the FSX commms eg ATIS. I have set up all the volume sliders in FSINN to max. The only oddity is that when I hit my PTT button, I dont hear any kind of beep which you might expect.

 

So if anyone can give me some pointers on how to fix this I would be very grateful, Cheers, Peter Luff.

I have solved the voice problem and all is now working well. I discovered that by clicking on the VATSIM label in the FSDT control panel voice section, there are 3 individual options for setting microphone, headset and speakers. I reset them to my specific Microset microphone and headset and bingo full voice was enabled. I tested at a few airports where controllers were on line nad I am now ready to fly. Cheers, Peter Luff.