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If, and it's an expensive if, you could just get a boom mic and replace your G35.

Desktop Mics require a good setup, and for some, they also pick up background audio which can be distracting. A desktop condenser is like $30 to $50 now, and it's definitely better than most headset or boom microphones, but if the room is noisy, the boom is 300% easier to get going and deal with for conversation.

You'd have to replace your headset, and that's a whole different price option and category to look into, i.e. $100 instead of $40 to $50.

I'd recommend the SHP9500 and the vmoda boom pro, but anything in that price range would be comparable. ie you can go into the sennheiser / vmoda range as well, but for comfortable gaming headphones, it's hard to beat on comfort, especially wearing for 8hr+ sessions.

A good pair of headphones is night and day for comfortable chat, i.e. 3-5 hours a day or 3-5 hours/week.

A lavalier/clip-on mic i.e. collar mic is a good option, but fiddly if you need to get up or move around, based on cord length or clothing. Nice to have, tricky to actually work with for games or guild chat, unless you never take breaks, and then accidentally sit on the microphone/cord when you get back and break the mic cable...

There's the modmic which can sit on an existing headphone, analogue connection, not USB, and the vmoda boompro (zeos review, recording demo at 6:00 to 9:00 minutes in, switches to the sony collar mic, and back to 9:30 for the boompro again) can connect to a vmoda headphones, or 3rd parties like the the $50/$70 shp9500 headset which is better for games.

Unfortunately, headphones don't get rated alongside headsets often, so i can't say definitively if the G35 is better or worse. I bought one of the original G35's and the background hum when silent was uncomfortable to listen to or use. It kinda has to have improved over the decade or so it's been out, so IDK, it's not an option i'd go for.

The blue yeti / yeti pro / snowball has analogue/USB connections and a higher pricetag, but it's also a condenser microphone, and that might be good or bad, depending on room accoustics. If you don't plan to run interviews or record instruments, a stereo, analogue or XLR option is kind of pointless, since mono can be expanded out and stereo adds more noise, not less.

If you have a typical bedroom/basement/office room and don't have padding/absorbing surfaces and want to record, then a headset boom might just be cleaner setting. i.e. room audio will pick up mechanical/fan noise from PC's, room fans, aircon's. etc. as a background hum or cyclical noise, which is hard to filter or screen out.

Name a single headset you can buy new today that "sounds like ass."

I'll give one example. The Corsair HS50 is $50 right now and in this video for example he sounds pretty good.

You'd have to buy a $10 Chinese knockoff and even then it probably wouldn't be that terrible.

okay.
if you just want bare minimum budget, to save up for the a40s. go for this:
https://www.amazon.com/Lightweight-Headset-87070-Microphone-Headphones/dp/B00024QV0M/
if you want better quality, might I recommend these:
https://www.amazon.com/Logitech-G430-Headphone-Cable-Sports-Performance/dp/B00CQ35C1Q/
i used these for a few years, and I thought they were decent. Although I'm no audiophile.

It is likely your headphones. Check if connection is OK. If it is not USB, consider using https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IRVQ0F8/_encoding=UTF8?coliid=I2TAQUA5LYV6L9&colid=U5AVYLLPQS2R

Otherwise, check to see what people are discussing about your headphones. For instance, my Hyper X headphones were giving weird sounds. I turned off the mic (wasn't using it) and its great again.

It is possible to get a Y-connector and just plug them both in, and hope for the best, balance on each device. But, it seems unlikely this will work well... in the past, I have blown out devices trying to do this sort of thing.

I followed your (very helpful) advice about the settings, however it doesn't seem to be as loud as it should be? I have a pair of wire bose headphones and they sound louder and richer than the Arctis Pro Wireless does. I did some googling and I found an article that has you turn off the volume cap. I did that but it still seems on the softer side when next to the bose headphones; my wife has some quiet comfort II headphones that are bluetooth but are similarly louder- is this something I need to resolve through equalizer settings or is there something I'm missing? Regarding chatmix I see a spectrum between game and microphone but I don't see a means of turning off chatmix outright?

Sounds like you have a headset port. A headset port requires only one line-in to handle both audio and the microphone. Easy to get around though! All you need to a headset port splitter, very cheap and I believe most big retailers carry some form of them. Here's an example. There's also a chance that the back of your PC has two separate ports for your headset.

Edit: More info.

I have this webcam and it works perfectly fine when I use it in OBS or in Messenger in a video call, its just in this new discord video chat where it will constantly flicker green, in the browser version it wont work at all

As stupid as it looks like, I was a bit surprised when went the time to self-host my bot.

For anyone who don't have a spare computer to use as a server, I recommend a Raspberry Pi. It's a fun project.

idk , what I have is a DAC/ Amp combo https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-E10K-Headphone-Amplifier-Black/dp/B00LP3AMC2/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1506805954&sr=8-2&keywords=fiio+e10k
It works great, but I was recommended to leave the volume knob to the highest setting.

That possibility blows my mind. But if it doesn't have the jack, then you'd need to get something like one of these. What's your laptop out of curiosity, I need to see this?

Sounds like you have a headset with only one connector, likely meant for phones or a console. Unfortunately, these don't generally work with most PCs. You'll need to purchase an adapter cable like this in order to split the 4-pole connector into the two 3-pole 3.5mm connectors.

Yes, if you have a two channel RCA to 3.5mm cable, then you can run it out the back of the focusrite and into your headphone jack/line in. Set your logic input and output to the focusrite, and set your discord input to the headphone jack/line in.

hope this shitty paint drawing helps to picture it

I have an AKG Pro Audio P3S Microphone. I've used it for years in Ventrilo. I do have my mic boost set to +20 (+0, +10, +20, or +30) in my Realtek drivers. Otherwise I'm too quiet in Ventrilo. So I use that, then set my Mic input up a bit in Vent's options. I can actually make myself loud to other people in vent so I can't turn it all the way up.

When I record my voice in Audacity. It is quiet. However I can hear myself clearly. It's not so quiet that I would talk over "this person" if they were talking in discord because I could hear them. I'd just turn them up a bit.

I think I'll try what /u/Savorne suggested and uninstall the realtek drivers and see what happens. Or perhaps I'll buy a decent sound card. Onboard was never amazing.

Do you have any other ideas I could try?

Yeah it's a gsync monitor.

This one to be specific: http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-XB271HU-27-inch-Widescreen/dp/B0173PEX20