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:
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.
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
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.