What settings?

$ cat /proc/asound/cards

$ amixer

$ alsamixer
(press tab to get to the CAPTURE devices.)

In aumix, you need to have Mic + iGain to get a level worth recording. And you need to select your capture device as many devices let you record from line in or mic in and other options. It sounds like your issue is probably one of that nature.

If you can hear the mic through your speakers, the mic is probably ok.
Its probably the headphones that need to be turned up.

Use the M key to make sure the headphones are not muted.

then to store the settings.

You could also do to give a list of capture devices.

What program are you using to test this?

I have all Line In and Mic In (and others like that) selected, along with a mic boost...

I'm using a skype test call to test the mic, should I be using otherwise?

Output for "arecord -l"

skellz@skellz-laptop:~/Desktop$ arecord -l
**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CS46xx [Sound Fusion CS46xx], device 0: CS46xx [CS46xx]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

And also, it's not that I'm trying to get it to work through to headphones, it won't capture any sound in those programs, such as skype, audacity, etc.

I can't help you with skype. But if you can hear yourself through your speakers and not your headset(if that is the problem), the headphones in alsamixer could be muted.
You should try recording something through another program like vlc or arecord to make sure it is actually a settings problem and not something with skype.
Try recording 5 second sample with arecord:
Then play it with

That's why I tried Audacity as well, still nothing from it

Try what I put in my previous post. I edited it while you were reading it apparently.

Just tried what you suggested, I recorded but no sound came out whatsoever

Where testing.wav is the recording you made.
post results.

skellz@skellz-laptop:~/Desktop$ sox -t .wav testing.wav -n stat
Samples read: 40000
Length (seconds): 5.000000
Scaled by: 2147483647.0
Maximum amplitude: 0.000000
Minimum amplitude: 0.000000
Midline amplitude: 0.000000
Mean norm: 0.000000
Mean amplitude: 0.000000
RMS amplitude: 0.000000
Maximum delta: 0.000000
Minimum delta: 0.000000
Mean delta: 0.000000
RMS delta: 0.000000
Rough frequency: -2147483648

Nothing got captured.
In alsamixer, Did you press F4 to make sure capture is not muted/turned way down.
Also turn on mic boost.

after changing alsamixer settings do alsactl store.

I won't be able to post back here for a few hours.
Ill check back later.

Everything is at a reasonable level. I also turned everything up very loud to see if that would help. Mic boost has been on since the beginning, so idk if that has been helping or not...

-t .wav is probably a typo(no dot needed). And probably redundant since a wav has headers. -t wav otherwise.

$ sox test.wav -n stat

$ arecord -t wav -f S16_LE -d 10 -c 1 -r 48000 test.wav

Assuming that you want to use the default device.

skellz@skellz-laptop:~/Desktop$ sox test.wav -n stat
Samples read: 480000
Length (seconds): 10.000000
Scaled by: 2147483647.0
Maximum amplitude: 0.000000
Minimum amplitude: 0.000000
Midline amplitude: 0.000000
Mean norm: 0.000000
Mean amplitude: 0.000000
RMS amplitude: 0.000000
Maximum delta: 0.000000
Minimum delta: 0.000000
Mean delta: 0.000000
RMS delta: 0.000000
Rough frequency: -2147483648

That's the result after doing this

$ aumix -q
$ amixer