Hi guys, it’s André from Conveyor of Randomness and today I’ll be showing you just how easy
it is to attach and use an external microphone with your PS4.
If you’re an avid gamer and either have a gaming headset, like these Razer Krakens,
that may not have the best built in microphone attached or you have a pair of headphones
that don’t have a microphone, like these Sony headphones, but provide you with good
sound quality that means you don’t want to get rid of them for a pair of new and possibly
expensive headphones to up your microphone audio levels.
If you have a USB microphone, which you can get relatively cheaply these days, without
compromising audio quality, then you can plug one of these directly into the PS4 and, if
necessary, with a few alterations of the settings, provide you with an alternative speaking audio
option, which could level up your gameplay and even streaming setup.
I’ve got a few USB microphones to try, to show you just how easy it is to set them up
on your PlayStation 4. First, I’ve got the ever-popular Blue Yeti USB Microphone, the
Fifine T669 USB microphone and the microphone, I reviewed in last week’s video, the Peradix
USB podcast microphone. I’ll leave links to my reviews on these microphones in the
description below.
As all of these microphones are plug and play and require no software to install any drivers,
that’s all you’ll need to do to get started.
If we start off with the Blue Yeti microphone, once it is plugged in, scroll to settings,
then to devices and then audio devices. As you can see, the PlayStation has recognised
the microphone and displays the input and output device as the Yeti Stereo Microphone,
if you plug in any other USB microphone, the PlayStation should recognise this and display
the microphones device type, seen here when plugging in the Fifine and Peradix microphones,
both have different names.
In these three microphones, we have three slightly but noticeable differences in button
and external configurations on each of them, on the Blue Yeti, you’ve got the volume
control, gain control, mute button, pattern mode select and the headphone jack, the Fifine,
just has the volume or gain dial and the Peradix has no external controls.
When plugging in the Blue Yeti, automatically, the headphone jack at the bottom of the Blue
Yeti is selected as the output device, you can select your preferred option of whether
you want to connect your headset to the Blue Yeti or the PlayStation controller. Just note,
only when you plug the headset into the Blue Yeti directly, will you be able to monitor
your own audio levels directly all the time outside the microphone adjustment level, which
we will have a look at in a moment.
If you click on to, adjust microphone level, this is where you can change the volume of
your own voice going into the PlayStation, that will be transmitted to your party. Quite
a simple setting to explain, speak into the microphone to determine whether the input
volume is too low, good or too high and make the relevant adjustments. At this point, no
matter which USB microphone you have, you’ll be able to hear yourself speaking through
the headset. Once you are out of this setting, if you are not using a headset plugged into
the microphone, you won’t be able to hear yourself.
With the Peradix microphone and its lack of external dials, going through the PlayStation’s
audio settings is the only way to change the microphone gain. With the Blue Yeti, Fifine
T669 and all other microphones with a gain dial, as well as using the system audio settings
to make microphone level adjustments, you are also able to adjust the on microphone
dials to change the gain, this is more useful if you’re in game and want to make those
audio changes on the go without having to interrupt your game and come back into the
audio settings like you would do with a non-dial microphone.
Additionally, with the Blue Yeti, you can use the manual volume control on the microphone
itself, to further increase or decrease your own volume, useful if your headphones don’t
provide enough output volume for your liking. You can use the mute button, if there are
brief moments that you don’t want your party to hear you, and you are able to take advantage,
if it suits your environment, of the different pattern modes available, but if you’re using
this for predominantly gaming, then you are only going to be using it in cardioid pattern
mode.
So, there you go, pretty much as easy as plug and play to use your USB microphone on your
PlayStation 4, use this method with most USB microphones from ones that offer straightforward
input audio, like the Peradix to microphones that offer a bit more user defined audio control,
like with the blue Yeti, whether you’re private gaming or even if you’re streaming
your gameplay.
I’ll link all of the review videos on all of the tech in this video and leave them in
the description below.
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see you on the next one and as always, happy gaming. Bye!!
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