I’m having a problem with my mic & TE stick. I’m using the Madcatz MW 2 throat mic and I get complaints from my friends on Xbox Live that they can hear me tapping the buttons really loud.
I’m wondering if this is the case with the other Xbox Live headsets like the default cheapo wired one they sell and also the wireless Xbox headset.
Thanks for any help.
EDIT: Finally got around to buying a plain brand new Microsoft wired headset and it works really good. It cancels all background noise including my button mashing and loud speakers.
I heard that throat mic really sucked but, I play on PS3 and even with us both having the official PS3 bluetooth headset we can hear each others buttons.
It’s probably mic sensitivity or volume you can change so it doesn’t pick up extraneous sounds.
I have the Microsoft Headset that is not Wireless.
I don’t know if my Opponent can hear my Button Press, but I can hear his, and he has the Wireless one.
Thanks for the answers, this really has helped in my decision. I was planning on buying a wireless mic but now I’m not.
Only settings you can change is the volume that you hear other players voices unfortunately.
And for as the throat mic not being good, I actually get a lot of compliments about how I sound on this mic. People say I sound clear but not too loud. Usually you can hear people breathing with the boom styled mics but with this one you can’t hear anything accidentally.
The main reason for me using the throat mic is because I use headphones to hear the game instead of speakers since I sit at my computer desk instead of in front of a tv in my living room.
I’d love to hear from more people who use the Standard wired Xbox360 headset for sure. I normally don’t use my mic on SF4 much but once Super comes out with the 8 player lobbies and team games I’m definitely going to be using my mic more.
Regarding joystick and button noise, my opponent can’t hear my joystick since I’m running an ASCII Answer on my Hori Real Arcade Pro 2 SA. :lol:
But as for button presses, oddly enough, they hear them COMPLETELY whenever I’m fortunate to use a wired headset (when my friend brings over his Mad Catz Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition) and never when I use my wireless one which is the one I normally use since otherwise you can’t use a headset at all when using an Xconverter 360.
Regarding joystick and button noise, my opponent can’t hear my joystick since I’m running an ASCII Answer on my Hori Real Arcade Pro 2 SA. :lol:
But as for button presses, oddly enough, they hear them COMPLETELY whenever I’m fortunate to use a wired headset (when my friend brings over his Mad Catz Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition) and never when I use my wireless one which is the one I normally use since otherwise you can’t use a headset at all when using an Xconverter 360.
Uhm thats cute and all but I’m not complaining about my joystick being loud, I’m talking about the buttons. And why do you call it the ASCII Answer? Is that the official name of it, or some made up shit?
Ok so they can hear you on the wired one but not the wireless one, gotcha. So we got like 3 people who say that the buttons can be heard through the wireless one and 1 person who says the opposite. Then 2 people who say that the wired one is good and 1 that doesn’t.
So basically all we got are some mixed reviews :lol:
Haha, understandable; I’ve heard mixed feelings about the name as well, though considering the optical joysticks on some ASCII sticks never had an official name, figured I might as well give 'em a better name than just simply ASCII Optical. Every other optical joystick had a cool name like Perfect 360 or Sanwa FLASH 1. Whatever though, forgive me for taking a moment to show off my stick’s specs Digital-. :china:
With regards to the joystick being loud, I did actually get some comments when using my wired headset with my friend’s stock FSTE that they can hear the JLF microswitches just as clear as the button presses. Just thought I’d throw that out there.
Honestly with headsets, I personally think you should go with whatever is convenient and on-hand for you. If you’ve already got a wired headset, might as well use it no? Most of it I think comes from your playstyle and how hard you mess with your stick (no homo). If you mash on your Sanwa buttons like Marvel vs. Capcom 2 players mash out supers on their Happ buttons, that’s obviously going to be noticeably louder than someone who lightly presses down on them. Likewise, if you’re slamming your joystick around so that you can hear the actuator hitting the gate louder than the microswitch click, then that’s gonna be pretty loud too. Tons of people on Xbox LIVE have mic problems or issues and hardly anybody really complains about them. It’s just a small nuance that they notice, but don’t really care about. Or at least, they shouldn’t. I’ve played a lot on Street Fighter IV and BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger online with my headsets and I haven’t gotten any complaints when I did have loud presses. :wonder:
Yea, I see what you are saying, I just thought that I could find a better headset/mic because I don’t really mash the buttons hard at all. One time I was playing Modern Warfare 2 and had my HRAP EX-SE on top of my desk and was tapping the buttons lightly and I got complaints from my team about the noise they made. So I’ve always figured that the MW 2 throat mic that I use is a bit extra sensitive since it has to pick up sounds from & through your throat and not your mouth.
I’m going to try to pick up a wired one used/cheap from somewhere and test it out. If I get negative results then I’ll just return it and keep using my MW 2 mic.
Just got around to testing the normal wired Xbox360 headset and it cancels the background noise perfectly. I’m using a Madcatz TE stick with Sanwa buttons and I mashed them as hard/loud as I could and the microphone didn’t even activate.
Haven’t gotten around to testing my HRAP EX-SE with Seimitsu buttons yet though. The buttons on the HRAP EX-SE are way louder than on my TE since the buttons are clunkier and the case is much hollower, so I’m curious to see how my headset handles the noise coming from that stick.