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Nari Ultimate on Switch?

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I am really interested in getting the Nari Ultimate and I think they're really cool, but I have a question.

My biggest problem is not the sound, or the aesthetics, or the RGB wasting battery, or the haptics, or the cooling gel not lasting for super long gaming sessions, but rather it is the fact that it's a headset.

 

I'm getting these for general gaming use with my PC and Nintendo Switch, but if you know anything about the Switch with their online stuff you probably know that their voice chat system is bullcrap. You have to have the voice of your friend coming through a mobile app and the game audio is not mixed with it. So setups for this are always either werid, unreliable, bulky, or have low-end headphones. And I kinda want the haptics anyway lol

 

So I'm wanting to know if anybody who has the Nari or Nari Ultimates (Not the Nari Essential), if you can combine the input of the 3.5mm headphone jack with the wireless USB dongle and output them both at the  same time. I would use the USB dongle  on the Switch's dock and have the 3.5mm cable  plugged into my phone (The USB headset I have now works fine with the dock on my switch, in PC mode, so I think the compatibility with the USB ports on the dock shouldn't be a problem.)

 

I really want to be able to use a pair of Nari Ultimates with my Switch and still use voice chat. Thanks for any help!

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I already asked about this in the audio forum twice and nobody answered it there, so please don't ask why I'm posting it here in general.

 

I want to get the Razer Nari Ultimate headset, but I will probably want to use it with my Switch. I know it can use the 3.5mm headphone jack but if I want to use it wirelessly, can I plug the USB dongle into the Switch's dock? My current USB headphones work with my Switch this way, but I'm not sure if the Nari will. I actually read that it doesn't work, but I have suspicion this might be because of the THX spatial audio or something else - so anyone with a Nari or Nari Ultimate and a Switch, could you try and test using the Nari/Nari Ultimate's USB dongle on the Switch's dock after disabling THX Spatial Audio, HyperSense, Chroma, and anything else that might only work on PC in Razer Synapse?

 

Thanks for any help!

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I doubt it very much,  I'm surprised your current headset works tbh.  I know for a fact (having had razer hardware before) that the features that need razer synapse NEED razer synapse.  That's why i got rid of my blackwidow.  

 With all the Trolls, Try Hards, Noobs and Weirdos around here you'd think i'd find SOMEWHERE to fit in!

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4 minutes ago, YouSirAreADudeSir said:

I doubt it very much,  I'm surprised your current headset works tbh.  I know for a fact (having had razer hardware before) that the features that need razer synapse NEED razer synapse.  That's why i got rid of my blackwidow.  

When I plug my current headset into the dock it even says "USB" at the top corner and shows me the volume. The volume control wheel on this headset also works when I use it on my Switch with USB. It doesn't have any fancy surround sound or rgb or haptics or anything like that. They are just wireless USB stereo headphones.

 

I also have a USB 3.0 to Gigabit Ethernet adapter that is not the official Switch one, and it works with my Switch's dock too. Although I can't test if it actually goes up to a gigabit on switch since my home internet plan is not that fast.

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2 minutes ago, alexiacat said:

When I plug my current headset into the dock it even says "USB" at the top corner and shows me the volume. The volume control wheel on this headset also works when I use it on my Switch with USB. It doesn't have any fancy surround sound or rgb or haptics or anything like that. They are just wireless USB stereo headphones.

That fact does not quell my surprise

 With all the Trolls, Try Hards, Noobs and Weirdos around here you'd think i'd find SOMEWHERE to fit in!

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On 1/15/2019 at 6:54 PM, alexiacat said:

I am really interested in getting the Nari Ultimate and I think they're really cool, but I have a question.

My biggest problem is not the sound, or the aesthetics, or the RGB wasting battery, or the haptics, or the cooling gel not lasting for super long gaming sessions, but rather it is the fact that it's a headset.

 

I'm getting these for general gaming use with my PC and Nintendo Switch, but if you know anything about the Switch with their online stuff you probably know that their voice chat system is bullcrap. You have to have the voice of your friend coming through a mobile app and the game audio is not mixed with it. So setups for this are always either werid, unreliable, bulky, or have low-end headphones. And I kinda want the haptics anyway lol

 

So I'm wanting to know if anybody who has the Nari or Nari Ultimates (Not the Nari Essential), if you can combine the input of the 3.5mm headphone jack with the wireless USB dongle and output them both at the  same time. I would use the USB dongle  on the Switch's dock and have the 3.5mm cable  plugged into my phone (The USB headset I have now works fine with the dock on my switch, in PC mode, so I think the compatibility with the USB ports on the dock shouldn't be a problem.)

 

I really want to be able to use a pair of Nari Ultimates with my Switch and still use voice chat. Thanks for any help!

You can't.

You need to use 3.5mm headphone plug with a basic mixer to mix the headphone and your phone audio/mic.

 

Alternative, you can pass the Switch audio to your PC, and have your headset connected on your PC, and you use the chatting software of you choice there with your friends.

 

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10 hours ago, GoodBytes said:

You can't.

You need to use 3.5mm headphone plug with a basic mixer to mix the headphone and your phone audio/mic.

 

Alternative, you can pass the Switch audio to your PC, and have your headset connected on your PC, and you use the chatting software of you choice there with your friends.

 

Thanks for the advice, although my question has actually changed from this one and I only want to know if it is possible to use the headset wirelessly by plugging the USB dongle into the Switch’s dock, having nothing to do with mixing audio inputs. I have decided on another solution for the “mixing audio inputs”, which is that I would wear a pair of wireless earbuds (probably the oneplus bullets wireless) and the nari headphones over them.

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1 hour ago, alexiacat said:

Thanks for the advice, although my question has actually changed from this one and I only want to know if it is possible to use the headset wirelessly by plugging the USB dongle into the Switch’s dock, having nothing to do with mixing audio inputs. I have decided on another solution for the “mixing audio inputs”, which is that I would wear a pair of wireless earbuds (probably the oneplus bullets wireless) and the nari headphones over them.

That could work. Never tried... but could work

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