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High pitch or humming noise coming from microphone and headphones at random times.

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#1 ·
Hey everyone,

A little while back, more precisely around 2016. I got my new system. For the most part, I had not been using a microphone because I had been playing video games by myself. But I was using earphones, which did pick up a lot of this noise and I could hear it every game that I played. After a few months, I didn't think much about the noise and forgot about it because I got used to it.

I get back with some old friends and so I decide to pick up a new microphone for £20. It's the Neewer NW-800 and it works fine, not for me apparently but for other people that I know who use this mic. It works well for them. After a while of using the microphone, my friends started noticing the humming noise or how they described it "a growling noise". They told me about this, but the noise was more prominent in games like Grand Theft Auto V, Dark souls 3 and Osu!. Sometimes in Counter Strike : Global Offensive as well.

This issue started to annoy me because I had started noticing the humming and high pitch noises in my headphones as well (I had bought a new pair of headphones at this point). But after a while, the sounds stopped annoying me when I play games now. The most important part was my microphone. It was making a lot of noise and I could not stop it.

Surfing through the web after a while I found posts that said it could be the PSU, GPU or a grounding issue. But even after that I have no idea what the problem could be. I looked at a bunch of stuff but it always came down to: "maybe my on-board audio is at fault?"

My current specs are as follow:
  • GPU: MSI GTX 960 4GB
  • CPU: i5-4690K 3.50GHz
  • RAM: Corsair vengeance 8GB RAM
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3
  • PSU: Corsair CX600 ATX/EPS 80 PLUS Bronze Power Supply Unit
  • HDD: 1TB Seagate
I doubt my peripherals really matter, so I'll skip that part. In a post that I found on here with almost a similar issue had the OP try out the USB ports for the microphone (I think) with their phone. So I did the same, and I have two different recordings. One of my NW-800 and one of my phone microphone via USB to my system. Here's the post I was talking about.

Here are some links to the recordings:

Neewer NW-800 recording.

Phone recording.

I also have a clip of me playing Dark souls 3 on my stream, with the issue getting worse. This is the clip. Could this be coil whine? It always happens in these games, but it also happens when I'm not in any game, just on my desktop.

I have no idea if using my phone's microphone via USB port on my system to use it as a microphone on my system makes a difference towards solving this issue, but I thought I might as well provide some sort of further information.

If getting a new microphone that connects via USB is my only option, then I'll have to go with that.
 
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I have often struggled with Mic interference over the years in different setups, something that is really anoying for others when you are a shot caller for various games, I have always either installed a cheap discrete sound card like a Xonar DX or went with an even cheaper amazon sound chip just for the mic.

On my current setup I went with an STX, and when swapping GPUs I started getting interference even with this discrete card, moving your GPU further away from your sound card or onboard chip can sometimes help, but more often than not that is not an option.

So for my current setup I am using this chip and only plug my mic into it, while keeping my audio in my STX;

https://www.amazon.ca/TROND-AC2-Microphone-Plug-N-Play-Compatible/dp/B014ANW4VU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1516195550&sr=8-2&keywords=sabrent+sound+card

Problem solved, you could always get a headset with a USB sound card built in, something like a hyper Cloud II, which is pretty much the best bang for buck gaming headset out there currently.
 
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Originally Posted by Marshall160 View Post

I have often struggled with Mic interference over the years in different setups, something that is really anoying for others when you are a shot caller for various games, I have always either installed a cheap discrete sound card like a Xonar DX or went with an even cheaper amazon sound chip just for the mic.

On my current setup I went with an STX, and when swapping GPUs I started getting interference even with this discrete card, moving your GPU further away from your sound card or onboard chip can sometimes help, but more often than not that is not an option.

So for my current setup I am using this chip and only plug my mic into it, while keeping my audio in my STX;

https://www.amazon.ca/TROND-AC2-Microphone-Plug-N-Play-Compatible/dp/B014ANW4VU/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1516195550&sr=8-2&keywords=sabrent+sound+card

Problem solved, you could always get a headset with a USB sound card built in, something like a hyper Cloud II, which is pretty much the best bang for buck gaming headset out there currently.
I was thinking of buying one of those, but after asking a bunch of people and watching some youtube videos. They kept saying that they won't always be reliable. I did also think of buying a headset, more specifically the one you talked about (HyperX cloud II). But my problem is that I have already spent £40 on just headphones which I enjoy. I have the Razer Kraken stereo headphones, and they work really well at the moment.

I'll have to give it some thinking to see if I should buy that chip or just buy a microphone that connects via a USB port. I was thinking of buying the Rode NT-USB microphone, but of course when I find it on sale or have the money for it when it's not on sale.

Thank you for your reply!
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