Does this work well for gaming chat? I use Mumble w/ voice activation. Blue Snowball picks up everything including mouse clicks. Would this be better?
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This mic is highly directional. Therefore it does not pick up as much extraneous sound (i.e. mouse clicks, fan noises, etc). The downside is that you must speak right into it. I work about five inches away form it and find it a bit quieter than my Blue Yeti. Sound quality is very good.
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using the XP400 and XB1 currently. Sound has no problems, hooks up and sounds just like on the 360, chat sucks because you have to be wired to SPEAK (not to hear) and have the adapter. Dumb, but it works.
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I have heard from those I talk with on skype that the mic is buzzing a lot, and picks up background noises. It could be that my sound card isn't good enough to handle it, or that some of my settings are wrong (though I have tried to fix it for a while without luck).
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I use my headset for dictating correspondence using Dragon Naturally Speaking (now 12.5 preferred) where it works for a well. For my cell phone use I use the less expensive Jawbone headset. As a matter fact, I own and use four of them-all of which work very well. Hope this helps.
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to the person that mentioned their sound card.... i don't know what kind of mac you have but i 've been having this problem with headsets and my g5 late 2005 for some reason macs don't always support the mic on pc compatible headsets etc so i was told by mac support to either buy an imic that would convert the mic and sound plugs into a usb headset or better yet to go to the website for mac dictate or the software that mac made previously to recognize voice and buy one of their certified mics at least then you know that it will work with other mac applications that really do need a sensitive mic. I hope it helped i just had the problem and am again trying to solve it now that i have rosetta. I tried the imic and it still didn't work but i could have bought a better headset to go with the imic and maybe that would have worked.
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I'm not sure, I use it on my PC. From what I've read, they say it only works for chat but not for actual in-game audio. Hope this helps.
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Yes, if you have that activated as it is an option. You may also adjust the volume of your voice I find these to be the best headset for gaming. Well worth the price to game for hours and hear everything.
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It's a very good vocal recording device. I use it for weekly podcasting. I've never recorded with a snowball device
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I use this headset with Vent, Teamspeak, Mumble, RazorComms and others. Not sure if that answers your question. If not, please be more specific.
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I definitely like it for pc gaming and i like it, but if you already have a mic i would try that out and see if it works well with your setup and it sounds nice before you go and buy another one. I would always rather have this over a headset though.
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The dialog is clear enough for me. I can hear things I couldn't before. But I doubt it does magic trick to equalize BG noise automatically. You may need some plugin (for PC in my case) to do the trick for you.
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The wide range of pickup shouldn't interfere with VR software since anything speaking nearby is quite clear and the mic does a good job of separating background noise from foreground speech. Should work with XP, although I haven't tried it. Honestly I don't see any reason why it wouldn't since it just uses the Microsoft drivers, you don't have to install any software, just plug and play. The mic will pick up as long as the software is asking for it, so if your VR software is always running, then no it won't turn off. As long as it's plugged in and some kind of software that would use it is running, it's listening for you. However if no software is active nothing will happen. Standard for a USB microphone.
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Possibly I suppose. Check whatever the i-equivalent of "control panel -- sound" is and make sure it's enabled correctly. I only use mine with Teamspeak/Mumble but it works great.
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Yes. I tried this out on my PS4 and it works perfectly. I was using my Sennheiser headset like it was a native PS4 device. Once you set the console to feed the audio through the headset, it remembers that choice. If you unplug the Xonar device, the audio automatically reverts to the tv speakers, and when you plug it back in, the audio shifts instantly back to it. Yes, the mic works too.
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Shawn, this mic is pretty great. I use it occasionally when I don't want to wear my gaming headset. It offers good voice communications and to help you, I've measured the mic - the cord is exactly 6 feet long. I also decided to test the quality of this mic upon first receiving it. Your voice can be picked up by this mic if you are WHISPERING even ~6 feet away. So if you have the mic pointing in the general direction you are, it will work fantastic... though your voice may sound like it is a couple feet away... if you are, of course. Overall, it's a great mic they threw in with this sound card! Hope this helped, take care!
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yup. use it to skype with friends while gaming all the time. however it does pick up noise from farther away too, so if you're looking for something super high quality, i'd recommend something else
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It worked well with my desktop where I could plug in both audio and voice. When I tried it on my laptop, without the voice plug in, the other people in my online meetings said there was an echo. I had to stop using it. Don't know if that answers your question or not.