in the market for one since i play my games at max volume and friends complain about hearing my gunshots etc..

never owned or used one so any recommendations would be nice, dont really have a price range but nothing crazy expensive..

Stop deafening yourself

most common one is a blue yeti

https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Yeti-USB-Microphone-Blackout/dp/B00N1YPXW2/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1497013816&sr=8-3&keywords=blue+yeti

yeah my friends can deal with it for $130 lol.

are the ones around $50-60 not great? rather them hear my keyboard then gunshots.



too many concerts, ears are used to it or ill go deaf.

yeti is a bad recommendation here. it's big selling point is that it's a modestly priced tri-capsule mic with omnidirectional functionality.

if you're using speakers, you'll need to be a bit creative. you'll have to adjust your speaker position to somewhere like the floor, you'll want a unidirectional cardioid mic with a shock mount, and you might even need a microphone shield depending. there's also software solutions you can use like vsthost with reaper plugins, to give you more control over thresholds.

all of that said, "ears... used to it" is a bad reason to continue increasing volume. hearing loss is largely irreparable to the best of my knowledge.

my speakers sit on my desk with my mic. (thats with the sub)
its not hard to adjust volumes.

I like my yeti, But it has a bunch of downsides.


At2020 USB + mic arm + Shock mount, Get the mic close to your mouth, Turn down the gain. They wont hear your speakers as much then.

im usimg hyperx revolver headset, my old logitech never pick up sound from the headset but this one is ridiculous. i guess ill just take time and adjust some more settings. i messed wirh discord settings and i have to kinda yell for them to hear me and they still hear gunshots.

they can turn up your volume.......

then the gunshots are even louder for them..................

push to talk is not happening, so i just keep myself muted bc I'm always last one alive anyways. ill mess with some settings this week, maybe get one of those muffles(idk name of it) for the mic.

This post was edited by Butts on Jun 9 2017 08:54pm