today's product unboxing is going to be rather interesting this is the pulse
Wave 2 PC gaming headset it is according
to the manufacturer the most versatile
gaming headset ever made for PC you can change modes on the Fly between USB 7.1
or stereo you have evidently Dynamic Master Control where I think they're
referring to this uh USB sound card right here okay virtual 7.1 surround
featuring Sonic force feedback so these are not only USB powered in terms of the
amplification and the sound card and the
headphones themselves but they are also USB powered in the sense that they
vibrate yes they have vibration effects so you can feel the explosions also
featuring a detachable microphone so this is made by Tekken motion and let's
move around to the side where we can find out o pulsating blue green and red
lights vibration effects which we covered already stereo virtual 7.1
surround so yes it it should be noted this is virtual 7.1 surround okay we
have a padded headband which obviously we'll find out once we open it up let's
see okay well here's some specs that you guys may or may not be interested in you
can always pause it and read the specs should you so
desire there you go all right
compatibility okay so oh works with Windows XP Vista and Windows 7 iPod and
MP3 players any audio device with a 32
mm in so that's interesting so it has the versatility to not only be a USB
headset and but also to come in a box or a
blister pack whichever you should prefer
so I guess I get to do two unboxings well first of all one thing we find
inside the box here is a driver install
disc with the user manual on the disc so you might not want to throw that away
since it clearly has a user manual on it but the drivers I would definitely
recommend downloading the latest from the C Media or teeken motion website C
media is the chipset maker of on
board sound card on the
USB audio control device here okay so what do we got well we' got some
packaging that clearly needs to come away all right there we go we've
got whatever this is which I guess we
will find out in a while some kind of USB something or other that's for sure
okay on or off
USB port wow interesting it comes with
double-sided Velcro so you can apparently attach that to something okay
so let's go ahead and take this off I may need that there manual on the
disc okay let's go ahead take out our control inline
controls okay let put away my keys
here and let's have a look at the pulse
wave to PC gaming headset so actually
let's start with the Jacks that we have so there is our USB
Jack you know what I'm going to find out what this is first I'll be just a moment
all right so the user manual reveals this to be an external battery power
pack so you go ahead and you put four aaa's in there you turn it on okay then
you can use the pulse Wave 2 to its full
extent even if you're plugged into say for example an MP3 player so you just go
ahead okay you plug this guy into
here okay so then it's powered and then you plug this green Jack into your mp3
player or any other portable audio device and you can get the vibration
effects which are triggered by bass as well as the pulsating lights on the side
of the headset even if you are not plugged in
to your PC so that's pretty cool all
right actually hold on I missed something in here I missed the detachable mic which is here okay so
let's have a look at the overall unit okay so we're using pretty standard cord
although it seems to be fairly thick gauge which is good we got our uh
microphone as well as our headphone Jacks all
right we can also plug in via USB to the
back of the PC and we can use it as a USB sound card okay so using the control
pod here all you have to do is switch between USB and standard mode so you're
just basically selecting which input you want to accept a signal from so if you
put it in USB mode then your computer will detect it as a c media audio device
if you put it in standard mode stereo mode whatever you want to call it then
you're just going to use your analog Jacks you can use your onboard sound card so this is a complaint that I've
had about usb uh headsets in the past
and that is that if you have a decent sound card there's pretty much no point
using a USB headset because your sound card is probably better so in this case
you can use the USB for like if you're running on your laptop or whatever where
usually the onboard is terrible and then you can switch over to these if you're
on your desktop and you have a better sound card so that's kind of Handy okay Vibe on USB on you can mute your mic
with this button right here got volume controls as well as Vibe controls and
this one two three thing here I believe these are base modes I'm just going to
double check that ah yeah yes so sub mode one is
lights only sub mode two is lights and vibration and sub mode three is
vibration only so that basically refers to how the pulse wave to the uh the
vibrators as well as the lights on the side are going to response to base
signals that are being sent to them so I'm going to go ahead I'm going to attach the detachable mic
here okay there we are so you can see it's quite flexible put that wherever
you need to put it you can put it like you know up here in your forehead if you
felt like it sounds pretty useful also comes off so you can tuck it away or you
can just leave it attached all the time which is probably what someone like me
would do so you just go put it like that then come down like this okay we've got
a pley material on the inside of the ear
cups right just some foam here you can't really see the drivers themselves
unfortunately I do like to show you guys that when I can you can see there's
quite a range of flexibility so no matter what the shape of your head is
should be able to find a fit that works for you also the headband is
adjustable so it adjusts quite a bit so if you have a very tall head that'll
work for you if you don't have a very tall head it should also work for you
okay this isn't quite as padded as I would typically like to see but it's
also not uncomfortable especially because you can adjust the size so that
it doesn't put too much pressure on you in any way shape or form also a pley
type material with foam underneath and I think that's pretty much for the overall
external Aesthetics of the headset so I'm just going to put my tripod down and
you guys I'm going to model them for you y this be a microphone and also an eye
patch no I'm just kidding it's just a microphone so you can see as I mentioned
before it is quite adjustable indeed you can put it pretty much wherever you see
fit including tucking it away over here so this is what the headset looks like
from the side they're quite open I can hear myself speaking quite easily uh
which means that not only will you be able to hear sounds uh around you and
one of the recommended uses that they have for this particular headset is to
use it in USB mode use vent trillo or whatever um speech app that you use to
map your friends voices to your headset and then you can actually still run your
speakers off your sound card so you would still be able to hear the game
sounds or rather your speakers off your sound card yeah you'd run your speakers off your sound card and then have your
game sounds mapped to that set of speakers so you can hear the voices
through your uh headphones but then you can hear all the game sounds through the
headphones outside so it's an easier way to hear your friends if you're gaming on
a team for example oh yeah one thing I haven't showed you guys yet is there is
a clip on the back of this so you could clip it somewhere should you so desire
and I guess that's pretty much it just wanted to show you guys what it looks like when it is installed on a user's
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