Epos Winds Down Former Sennheiser Gaming Headphone Business
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Technically the successor owner of the gaming brand.

Epos has announced that it will be exiting the gaming headphone business and will instead focus on enterprise communications products. The company’s gaming products…

  • mihnt@kbin.social
    6·
    10 months ago

    My snowball would like a word. If you could hear it. Over it picking up everything else in the room.

    • hagelslager@feddit.nl
      2·
      10 months ago

      If I had a dollar for every time people recommended Blue mics while any dynamic mic would’ve been a better option, I’d be a rich man.

    • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The problem with blue products, isn’t the quality but rather it’s the price, you can get so much more for the same amount of money as a snowball or yeti.

      As for it being too sensitive, try turning it down andoving closer to it, or just using a noise gate, or even noise reduction (like rnnoise based or RTX voice). There are plenty of options for tuning a microphone for better quality. And you don’t have to go for the manufacturers software.

      Personally I have a Audio interface with an XLR AT2020, and my noise gate and compressor plugin chain running on Carla works fine for what I have on my Linux setup, but you don’t even have to go that far. All you need is something like voicemod, voicemeeter, EasyEffects or noisetorch or other standalone setups.

      • mihnt@kbin.social
        2·
        10 months ago

        I’m just using pulse effects for gates and compressors.

        I was more talking about it’s not a directional mic and sound from behind it is no different to the mic as sound in front of it really. So it just picks everything up.

        • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          Ahh, a noise reduction setup like rnnoise (noisetorch) might actually help you with that - you can use it to replace the noisegate, as it has voice activation detection which works like a noisegate

          • mihnt@kbin.social
            1·
            10 months ago

            It’s not a big deal really. I do like the mic because I paid next to nothing for it. (Yay, cheap marketplace shit.) Besides, I rarely use it.

            That and I’ve had to switch over to flatpak pulse effects which refuses to see the mic and allow me to add effects. (The flatpak version of pulse effects didn’t even fix the problem I had anyways.)