Not strictly gaming....WFH Headset

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

Andybtsn

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Hi all,

The wife and I both work from home and in the same room. Luckily, only for 2 days together, but it's becoming increasingly hard to be on Teams calls together due to background noise (our voices!) She's a project manager, and I manage a big team, so we are in a number of calls - The usual Jabra headsets aren't cutting it, and my poor Bluetooth one earpiece is undoubtedly a no-no now. Can anyone recommend decent headsets with microphones that are less responsive to anything other than a noise a couple of centimetres away?

The problem isn't even noise through the mic, but it's off-putting me hearing her speak whilst I am... I don't hate my wife, just that it is all very off-putting; I preferred when she works from the lounge :D

I hoped to avoid a complete gaming headset style, but I assume I must go down that route to get real noise cancelling.

It's an old pic now, with many updates since, but you can see how close we are to one another.

Pic: Your desk...RIGHT NOW

Should probably start reading that pile of books... I like your setup. What monitors is that and do they all have one separate wall mount ? Maybe a picture to show the back of the set up as well, if possible ?
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Any recommendations would be great!

Thanks
 
Faded said:
Quite possibly, I'm currently using a Steelseries Arctis but the microphone has started to fail on me so was just wondering what alternatives there was out there.
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I forgot I created this thread. No I never sorted this! I use a Steelseries 7p for gaming and find the noise cancellation pretty poor so wouldn't consider this for working purposes.
 
I got a Creative Zen Hybrid Pro Classic for this exact usage case, and very pleased with it.

The noise cancelling works pretty well, so wife's voice doesn't distract me (by no means silent, but reduced enough). My mike does seem to sometimes (but not often) pick up her voice so people I'm on a call with can hear her. I think it must be something to do with me accidentally angling the boom slightly towards her.
 
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Ayahuasca said:
Can you not go separate? Some good noise cancelling headphones and a hypercardioid mic are my go to.
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Thread revival!

So I picked up some Sony WH1000XM5 which are great for noise cancelling but the mic is horrendous for picking up everything!

Any suggestions for stand alone mics? Im still sceptical where it will pick up my wife when she’s on calls, even with directional or a hypercardoid.
 
Maybe a modmic uni 2. Can fit to your current headphones.


I have an old 4.0 uni directional (uni 2 is the current one despite the name) and it doesn't really pick up anything on the left of me unless it's really loud (default mounting is left side of the headphone, so bent towards you the open side of the mic is facing right). Uni 2 is suppose to be better in terms of noise cancelling as well.

Default mount is on the left, but you can mount it on whatever side you need for it to face away from her, you just have bend it again if you want it on the right. Like in this video


That's an old modmic, but you swap sides the same on the new ones.
 
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