realtek hd audio manager not alllowing usb headset

The main issue: There's a Realtek setting I need to change, and Dell Audio exists solely to disallow that. Sorry if I sound really angry right now, but I think we've all been there. Someone please help me out with this, because I just forked over $100 for this, and I'm planning on using it for professional gaming and podcasting purposes no mic won't cut it. What I don't have: Realtek's audio manager. What I have, of relevance: Razer Blackshark headset + detachable mic Dell Inspiron 15 w/ just one, unified audio jack every single Realtek and Microsoft audio driver compatible with Windows 8.1. My headphones work fine, but the microphone isn't even detected. I followed some steps from Dell's community website, and switched the Realtek driver with the Microsoft driver, and that got the headphones themselves working. Then I discovered that Dell decided to replace Realtek's GUI with 'Dell Audio', which literally had two options, one of which was whether it should even show settings or not. I spent the next 4 hours downloading, re-downloading, installing, uninstalling, and reinstalling Realtek drivers, because everyone said that I had to enable some setting or another related to treating jacks as separate devices or something, and I don't have the Realtek HD GUI at least, I didn't think so.

I bought a Razer Blackshark headset, it didn't work when plugged in. My problem, in the simplest terms possible: 'For starters, no threads anywhere online have solved my issue. Copy of my TomsHardware post, where no one attempted to help:

Realtek hd audio manager not alllowing usb headset