Microphone not picking up any audio

[mellow topaz]

Greetings, I've just today set up a fresh install of Arch utilizing the archinstall script (pipewire selected for audio), upon concluding the installation I've set up the KDE Plasma desktop environment, spent a few hours configuring everything and setting up my desired applications, however upon grabbing discord I've noticed that my microphone was not working. First thing I did was to make sure I had all pipewire packages(such as the pulse, jack and alsa addons) and that they were all working, they were, I then checked if its services were active and they were as well. I am now lost as I am unsure what this could possibly be, I monitor my audio through the plasma-pa applet and it does say the 'rear microphone' is detected. For context I am in a desktop and using a headset with a microphone which has two separate 3.5mm jacks

I am quite new to this so any help in the troubleshooting process would be appreciated

@mellow topaz how did you install discord?

sudo pacman -S pavucontrol

open it, then find mic, test it

[mellow topaz]

I installed it from pacman, pacman -S discord

[mellow topaz]

On it

I installed pavucontrol, the port option does say 'Rear Microphone' (plugged in) and it is picking up audio but it isn't coinciding with me talking on the mic. When I test my mic on discord to hear it the same behaviour is observed, it's picking up something which sounds like static, especially if I move around the microphone

I did test the headset in a windows laptop however and my voice it picked up fine so I don't believe it to be a defect of the headset

[mellow topaz]

move the slider for rear mic down

moved it down, same pattern continues

I've also tried using the front IO and it's the same

@mellow topaz move it up then

I did so as well

[mellow topaz]

I attempted to switch to PulseAudio just to verify if it made any difference, nothing(already switched back), I also attempted a potential fix, let me send it