Hi,

Under Debian GNU/Linux the mic is detected by default on my machine. Both a 
normal USB mic and a logitech headset. I can use them with skype at least, 
not sure as per arecord, but since they probably use the same interface 
it /should/ work :) I use alsa, btw, and no configuration was needed.

What does dmesg say about it?

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On Thu November 6 2008 03:55:04 pm Matt Graham wrote:
> So a few weeks ago, I bought Rock Band, which comes with a USB
> microphone.  I thought I'd use try to hook this USB microphone up
> to my Gentoo box and record some sound.  This is apparently a lot
> harder than it should be.
>
> The device is recognized according to the output from lsusb.  The
> snd-usb-audio module is loaded.  "arecord -l" shows the device.  A
> device file corresponding to the mic is present under /dev/sound/ .
> However, nothing I tried got any sound from the mic into a file.
> "arecord -D" with multiple syntaxes (/dev/sound/pcmC0D3* , 0:1 , and
> things like that) got me cryptic error messages.  I can reproduce
> these later, when I'm sitting down with the hardware.
>
> So, how do people with USB audio gear get sound input into files?
> Does it require tinkering with ALSA's config file in some poorly
> documented way?  (ALSA's documentation is in a pretty sorry state,
> if you want to do anything complex.)  Is there something with
> arecord that I'm missing?  This is only the second time in 9 years
> working with Linux that I've actually wanted to record something
> from a mic... and with OSS and a borrowed non-USB mic back in 2000,
> it was really easy (set mixer up, use sox to read from /dev/dsp).
> Technology marches on, I guess.