Throat mic
I've thought about using a throat microphone for gaming for some time. If you've played FPS or sims using VoIP you'll know what a pain it is when someone is using a normal microphone and has loud background sounds like game sounds, music, phones or the wife yelling at them. Especially if they've set the transmit in Teamspeak to activate automatically - you end up with the voice channel full of rubbish background noise.
Another reason I was looking at mics is the microphone on my Medusa Gamer 5.1 headphones isn't very reliable. The Medusa headphones are great, they have rumbling bass and excellent positioning of surround sound, but the first edition has a detachable microphone that is highly problematic. It sometimes just doesn't work at all because of the screw in connection. The second edition of the headphones fixed this by making the microphone integrated.
A 70% off sale at my electronic store and I've now got a throat mic to muck around with for only $5. The mic, a DigiPowr PMR-TM2 was intended for walkie-talkie radio use and has both a microphone and a single ear plug headphone. It has a single 3.5 mm audio plug suitable for use with the computer microphone input. The quality of the mic input is highly dependant on the position on your throat, it has to be in the right spot.
This is what the two microphones output is like:
Another reason I was looking at mics is the microphone on my Medusa Gamer 5.1 headphones isn't very reliable. The Medusa headphones are great, they have rumbling bass and excellent positioning of surround sound, but the first edition has a detachable microphone that is highly problematic. It sometimes just doesn't work at all because of the screw in connection. The second edition of the headphones fixed this by making the microphone integrated.
A 70% off sale at my electronic store and I've now got a throat mic to muck around with for only $5. The mic, a DigiPowr PMR-TM2 was intended for walkie-talkie radio use and has both a microphone and a single ear plug headphone. It has a single 3.5 mm audio plug suitable for use with the computer microphone input. The quality of the mic input is highly dependant on the position on your throat, it has to be in the right spot.
This is what the two microphones output is like:
After trying the microphones out in different situations, the outcome wasn't what I expected. I found that my headset microphone actually does an outstanding job of filtering out most of the background noises. My loud room cooling fan I was mainly concerned about wasn't even audible in the recording, nor was some background gaming sounds. The throat mic was clearer than I expected, but does make the audio more difficult to understand. The only advantages with the throat microphone is that background noises don't activate Teamspeak when Teamspeak is auto-activate mode, and there is absolutely zero background noise transmitted.
I'll be sticking with the headset microphone, it does a better job than I thought.
posted by Thommo at
6:12 PM
2 Comments:
I'm thinking of buying a pair of those for use on my motorcycle. During long trips and at high speeds you can't hear anything because of the wind.
You think it might work? How stable on the neck is that thing?
Also where can I get them?
Thanks.
Sorry for the delay in responding. The throat mic should be really good for on a bike as it would completely eliminate the backgound noise transmission. You should be able to get a thoat mic electronics shops like Jaycar.
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