Sidetone for microphone

[Bakerrr]

I recently bought an antlion modmic wireless, but I am having a lot of trouble because there is no built in audio monitoring and windows built in options are horrible and have latency. The headphones I use are hyperx cloud alphas and they are sorta noise canceling so when I talk I can't hear myself and I really dislike that. What sort of options do I have to get some sort of feedback from my mic to my headset. I'm not against buying a new headset, maybe some sort of preamp system, software. I don't really know. Best bet might be to get open back headphones. What do you guys think?

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

if i remeber correctly modmic wireless uses bluetooth so there isnt really a way to put a interface or anything inbetween it so your out of luck and would have to rely on software playback

[Motifator]

Keep in mind that if you're using Discord, it also botches your mic gear to the floor with its voice rendering exclusive options. You should disable all of those from the client settings to get a proper experience even with a top-tier mic setup.

[Bakerrr]

2 hours ago, Alaradia said:

if i remeber correctly modmic wireless uses bluetooth so there isnt really a way to put a interface or anything inbetween it so your out of luck and would have to rely on software playback

It is wireless but it has a USB dongle. Does that change anything?

 

[Bakerrr]

1 hour ago, Motifator said:

Keep in mind that if you're using Discord, it also botches your mic gear to the floor with its voice rendering exclusive options. You should disable all of those from the client settings to get a proper experience even with a top-tier mic setup.

What settings are you speaking of.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

3 minutes ago, Bakerrr said:

It is wireless but it has a USB dongle. Does that change anything?

 

the usb doggle is a bluetooth dongle so no. youd have to get a wireless mic that outputs in 3.5mm, quarter inch or xlr if you realy want low latency playback

[Motifator]

7 minutes ago, Bakerrr said:

What settings are you speaking of.

The settings down Voice Processing under the Voice & Video tab of Discord settings. Turn off all of them except Advanced Voice Activity.

[Bakerrr]

46 minutes ago, Motifator said:

The settings down Voice Processing under the Voice & Video tab of Discord settings. Turn off all of them except Advanced Voice Activity.

Understood, what are your opinions on discord noise suppression.

Also input sensitivity is that just something I should mess with or put it on automatic

[Bakerrr]

54 minutes ago, Alaradia said:

the usb doggle is a bluetooth dongle so no. youd have to get a wireless mic that outputs in 3.5mm, quarter inch or xlr if you realy want low latency playback

I just went ahead and bought the epos h6pros and a gsx 300 audio card. 

[Motifator]

16 minutes ago, Bakerrr said:

Understood, what are your opinions on discord noise suppression.

Also input sensitivity is that just something I should mess with or put it on automatic

Tbh, none of their stuff is necessary while using a headset mic. Since the mic is right up front your mouth in that case, you can't easily mess things up. All Discord's methods of suppressing, adjusting etc ends up doing nothing much else than messing up your experience. You can test this for yourself - turn off the settings one by one, do a test up above that settings page to hear your own self. Turn them on and do again... it's like Discord by default puts a noise gate to your mic that is overly aggressive set up. Just cuts a significant portion of your gain / volume. 

I've tested this with various high end mics, none of those settings actually helped. 

As for the input sensitivity, it's a setting you can adjust if you want. It's the amount of noise in decibels that Discord starts to record your volume. When it drops down below a certain threshold, your voice is no longer heard. It's set to auto by default, though I'd suggest using push to talk if you could. That way, you make sure your voice always goes to the other client without skips due to sensitivity settings. You're also eliminating other unwanted noises to get to the other side by using push to talk. I just set push to talk on my mouse side button so things get easier that way.

[PeachyUwUSenpai]

3 hours ago, Bakerrr said:

I just went ahead and bought the epos h6pros and a gsx 300 audio card. 

Thats not going to solveit you need to have both of them hooked to the same hardware for low latency but good luck. your mics the problem

[Bakerrr]

On 7/18/2022 at 11:53 PM, Alaradia said:

Thats not going to solveit you need to have both of them hooked to the same hardware for low latency but good luck. your mics the problem

I returned the mic. The h6pros have a mic