Speech through headset, game sound through speakers. Is that possible?

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Hi,

I am wanting to sort out a headset for use on my pc. But I am wanting to set it up similar to how it is on the xbox 360 in the way that you have only the voice coming through the headset, whilst retaining the game sound through the normal speakers. Is this possible, I guess you would have to use a separate voice software to the game?
 
Theoretically it should be possible without any software, you'd just have to make sure the headset feeds into the mic socket and the speakers feed from audio out.

However I'd never recommend using such a setup as tweaking the microphone settings to avoid it picking up the sound from the speakers, whilst still getting decent quality/volume from the latter could be very tricky. When using a mic I'd always want to be wearing cans.
 
Feedback from the speakers is going to play havoc with the voice unless you have a very good uni-directional mic and some real good positioning.

I'd stick (as suggested above) with mic + headphones.
 
If your using some sort of team speak software, windows can output that sound through a different port if I remember. Though its not really a good idea as mentioned above
 
The one way I know of to get this to work is to use a USB Headset and to be using win7 (not sure about vista).

You then right click on the volume icon and select playback devices and set the headset as the default communications device (if it hasn't already been set as that after install of the headset drivers).

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You can also set the headset as the default device to make it so all the PC sounds go through the headset only.

I was surprised how simple it was to be honest. I discovered that wireless USB headsets are actually pretty good after I got fed up of wired 3.5mm jack ones and the wires always breaking.

I get no feedback at all using these:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=SP-114-CL&groupid=702&catid=1058&subcat=1847
 
My pc has started doing it sometimes if I launch a game, then put the headphones in and boot up the voicecomm software. Other day I had World of Tanks coming through the speakers and Teamspeak coming through the headphones no problem.

Feedback ftl though.
 
I use my headset mic and hear speech and game sound through my speakers.

Its very rare that I dont hear what someone has said, and usually its down to them having their mic at a low volume.
 
I do exactly this and I use the MS Xbox360 wireless headset. Works a treat as the mike rests on one ear and the other is free so you can clearly hear the voice and the games sounds through the speakers at the same time.
 
I do this all the time, but I have a sound card added - this feeds the speakers, and the headphones are plugged into the built in sound on the motherboard.

I tried using a wireless xbox 360 headset for a while, and found it awful. Kept running out of power, the sound kept distorting on it, and people kept complaining that they couldn't hear me properly.
 
I've been doing this for years, my mobo's onboard soundcard (realtek azalia iirc) has an option in its driver software for "treat each port as an individual audio device", which allows me to have voicechat on my headset, and game sounds on my speakers. Though I do find that when I game like that, that I have game sounds turned down to quite a low level.
 
Aha that excellent, on the whole feedback thing I will try it and if I do then I will just go to all sounds through the headset.
 
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