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It's sort of like going from an integrated GPU to a dedicated one (not quite so drastic a difference, but you get my point). And since this one has a mic input, you're essentially just moving those connections to your desk instead of the back of your PC, while giving you better quality overall.
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It pulls the audio processing out of the PC into an external device, gives you better quality audio, and with an amp built in, will allow you to push better headphones down the road. If I had all the money in the world, I'd gladly buy some 500+ dollar headphones, though.Īnyone who cares about audio quality is going to recommend an external dac. I did my research and these had a surprisingly good frequency response for the price - better than many headphones that cost a lot more. Look for something that gives you better bass response at least down to 55 or so.įor what it's worth, I got lower end "nice" head phones: You'll notice that many headphones struggle to produce bass adequately, and usually starts rolling off somewhere below 100hz.
In practice, this mostly is impossible, but some headphones get a LOT closer than others. You want to see that the amplitude is more or less even across the whole range of frequencies. What you want to see is a plot of different frequencies, from like 30hz up to 20khz along the horizontal axis, and amplitude (volume) on the vertical axis. There are lots of websites that evaluate headphones in this way. As you get into dishing out better headphones, you should start doing research into their frequency response. Sounds like that was the issue, then! Yeah, not all headphones are able to well reproduce certain frequencies. I wish I had known about computer based setups earlier on. The other argument for a physical keyboard (like the Yamaha PSR) is that it is portable, and you could take it and jam with some buddies more easily than hauling a computer setup. I mean, a lot of the music you hear on TV or in movies is made on a computer based setup, and you can largely duplicate that quality for a pretty small amount of money (certainly compared to buying hardware keyboards that are capable of that same quality).
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A computer based setup offers professional quality sounds at a much better price. In you are pretty serious about keyboard, you will likely outgrow that unit pretty quickly.
The Yamaha PSR isn't a bad idea, because it is pretty cheap, and does offer that immediate turn on and play experience. I would recommend getting some decent headphones. If you aren't scared off by having to learn a little bit of new software, it will offer you far better sound at a much better price. I'd really heavily consider a computer setup. No clue what I'm missing when compared to studio-level monitoring headphones though.Īny 3.5mm headphones/buds would work (including cheap earbuds), but you might be missing out/in on sounds you normally hear with or without better headphones. I saw them being compared to over-ear headphones at double their price. I have these which I really like, and are rather amazing for the price.
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If you are dedicated to using your headset specifically, then you would need to buy an audio interface, and use some software to get amp simulation through your PC.Ī probably-cheaper option would be to buy a good set of headphones that use a 3.5mm jack to your amp. Does the headset work on gaming consoles?
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It probably has to have drivers installed on it to play sound through the headset. Since your headset is USB, it is likely that it is meant for PC only anyways. The sound of the amp would still come through the amp. If that port is anything like the port on my amp (Fender LT25), all that port does is let you connect to your PC to change the settings through their app.