Budget Microphone for Live Commentary and Gaming

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Elzito

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Hello everyone,

Long story short, I'm looking for a good desktop microphone/headset combo that HAS microphone monitoring (You can hear yourself talk). I plan to use this to play video games and to make LIVE commentary for them. There can at times be a decent amount of background noise. I have a budget of around $200 AUD (Around $150 US). I have been looking at the HyperX Cloud II Headset and the ATR2500. However I have a question. I assume that the 2500 is plugged into my PC and my headset is then plugged directly into the 2500. Will I be able to hear my in-game sound (from PC) as well as myself talking? Are there any better options?

Thanks in advance.
 
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James Mason

James Mason

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The Blue Nessie is great microphone and lets you listen in to your own voice.
http://www.nexus.com.au/blue-microphone-nessie.html

BUT, listening to your own voice isn't something you'd want to do while talking, as it's very hard to talk while hearing yourself talk a second time, it's mostly only for studio work, where someone else is listening to your voice from the direct output on the microphone.

But you don't need a special microphone to hear your own voice, you can turn the option on in Windows under the specific recording device you have, but going to it's properties and clicking the "listen to this device" checkbox. (and still hear your game audio as well)
 
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Elzito

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Oops, didn't mean to pick as solution. Anyway I know about how confusing the delay is, but I don't want that. I need it to have 0 delay, so I hear myself speak as I speak like with a telephone or just talking normally. Because of noise cancelling headsets it can be confusing to be talking and only hear silence. Plus it lets me moderate my voice level so I'm not shouting so I can hear myself.
 
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Noise canceling headsets won't actually make you unable to hear your own voice, since you actually mainly hear your own voice not through your ears but through the vibrations in your skull and bones, ect.

The direct plug in to the microphone does have a 0 delay, but I don't know if it can also transmit game audio back through the USB to your headset as well.

I don't know of any live commentators that actually listen to their own voice while they comment.
 
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Elzito

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Huh, In the past I've been using the TurtleBeach EarForce 320 headset that had this feature until it broke, I then moved over to the Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma headset and tried to record a video. As you were saying in your first reply it would be extremely confusing to listen to an "echo" of my voice, however, I find listening to almost complete silence while talking has a somewhat similar affect. I've hear from someone else saying that you can hear ingame sound from the Blue Yeti which works the same way (and you'd assume that that's how it works). I have seen live gameplay using this exact microphone so unless they were playing with no sound then it should work? On the other hand they could have had their headset plugged directly into their PC so why not just by the snowball?
 
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