Problem with microphone and MSN

okay, so My microphone can record sounds perfectly in programs like Cubase.

When I try to use it in MSN+ though, the person who I am talking to cannot hear my voice, but MSN still shows the microphone as being connected.

No, red cross or anything. Should I just get rogerwilco or what?

Fool around with the recording settings in the volume control, soon it'll work, it happened to me.

Yeah it works now, problem was, I kept trying to talk without letting a connection establish. *feels dumb*