Microphone Performance

The microphone of the Tt eSPORTS Shock V2 was tested by connecting it to the ASUS Maximus XI Formula motherboard and the Creative Sound Blaster E1, a $50 external USB sound card. To review the microphone's sound and compare it to other similar headsets, I used the Adam A7X speakers and Shure SRH840 headphones, both being studio monitors, connected to Audiolab's M-DAC, a high-quality digital-to-analog converter that functions as an external sound card when connected to a PC. Testing was done in Discord, TeamSpeak, Skype, and Audacity, and I also used Audacity to record sound from the microphone. The sound was recorded with microphone sensitivity set to 100% and was not post-processed or edited in any way.

For reference, this voice recording has been made with the Rode NT-USB, a high-quality studio microphone:



This is the sound recorded by using the bidirectional, pivotable microphone supplied with the Tt eSPORTS Shock V2:




As you can hear, the microphone sounds exceptionally thin, with no depth or naturality to speak of. It's loud enough to be used for in-game communication, although you might be inclined to lower the gain as it picks up a lot of background noise. My mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX Red switches kept activating it, which didn't make my teammates happy at all. There are better gaming headset microphones in the $50 price bracket, which you can hear by listening to the samples below.