Thanks to the thread gynoid pointed out I was able to solve my problem. I am using a usb headphone adapter for my headset for recording purposes. Using the pulse audio tools mentioned in the thread he links to I was able to find out that the flash stream was simply pushing sound into the wrong device.
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