I have this long standing problem that I have never been able to use headsets because all the (many) different sound cards I have had, don't work well enough on the mic input. The sensitivity is way too low. I need a sound card that has a decent, sensitive mic input. Anyone know of one?
maybe its the mic your using. i have generic sound card, and i can even record sound from my digital camera through my mic. with clear sound! but if you want a new sound card. a creative audigy 2 is great.
I would have thought it would be the mic you were using too. A decent mic costs a bomb. Audigy cards are good. Ive got the Audigy 2, I bought it just because it supported the Asio driver. It works great, midi latency was fine down to about 7ms. Pretty good for a cheapo card. They cost about a third of what I paid now too.
i've got a headset + mic for 25 AUS dollars. The mic is very very good. it will only pick up what you point it at, so no background noises will get through while your talking at it.
I have CMedia CMI8738 5.1 PCI sound card and it works very good for me. It was very cheap also when I bought it. $21NZD
