They won't work directly into your mixer. They're designed to plug either into 
a recorder or 
directly into a computer sound card. On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 02:59:16 +0100, G. 
McFarlane 
wrote:


>Hi
>I recently purchased  a pair of these Sennheisser PC160 microphone headsets 
>when I heard a podcast on them from someone I think on this list. They sound 
>great when I plug them into my Olympus DM5 and the mike works well. However 
>when I plug the mike into my mixer I get absolutely nothing. I have converters 
>from 3.5 to the quarto jack, this does not work either. As they’re going 
>into 
>the line in socket, I then tried an industry standard mike preamp, still 
>nothing, just hiss. The signal isn’t getting through although adding my Dm5 
>into the mix by plugging the mike into it first andd then routing it through 
>the mike preamp into the mixer and it does work.
>Ideally I wish to use both headset mikes to record interviews through my mixer 
>to the computer. I should also say I’ve tried a number of converters from 
>3.5 
>to quarto jack, mono and stereo.
>Has anyone any suggestions as to how I can get a signal into my mixer. Perhaps 
>you know of a particular converter/adaptor which will allow the mike’s great 
>signal to hit the mixer.
>Thanks.
>Gordon McFarlane
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