Creative Labs Sound Blaster World of Warcraft Wireless Headset Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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World of Warcraft I'm pretty sure a couple people play this game so it makes
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sense that there are World of Warcraft licensed blizzard products out there on
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the market now this is a World of Warcraft wireless headset from creative
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you see they got their Sound Blaster branding on there they've also got THX
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certification for this particular unit and that would be all very fine and
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interesting but if it's not a neat product with unique uh value add
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features then the World of Warcraft label doesn't really do much for it
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especially for a headset I mean with something like a wow Mouse for example
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um where you've got better integration with the game as a feature then yes
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that's definitely very World of Warcraft with this we have Aesthetics but we also
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have some pretty cool features that do appear to be optimized for MMO Gamers so
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number one is oh okay there's the headset but let's do accessories first
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okay accessories first and uh if I can get the cardboard
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packaging out very nice packaging very clean very
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simple back here we have uh like a pleather case that's nice okay so when
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you're cting around to lands uh then you'll have somewhere to keep
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your headset so it won't get all dinged up and scratched up and uh
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okay here we got more accessories sorry guys I'm it's hard to talk while I fish
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for accessories in the boxes okay I think I got everything now so you got a
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quick start guide this is a wireless headset so there is a little bit of
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setup involved you got to charge your headset download install software you
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also have to pair the headset with your um transmitter and then you can set up
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the World of Warcraft audio control panel and last but not least you wear
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the headset okay good
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there's a little list of all the included stuff but we're going to go through that anyway so why don't we just
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go ahead and do that so first we have
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our carrying case thing so let's have a look at this cuz that's actually a kind
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of a nice little uh nice little add-on because I haven't really seen any
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headsets that come with a convenient way to pack them up and carry them around so
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you got a little World of Warcraft logo there can sound blaster logo on the
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other side you throw your headset in there and it does fit so they did manage
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to do their due diligence uh you know I've seen I've seen worse things on
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products you know than a carrying case that doesn't fit so that's that's
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excellent we've tested that aspect of this headset it looks like uh you can
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put your uh your transmitter in there or
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maybe that's for your no that's probably for the detachable headset mic y all
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right so what do we got in here I guess one of the things we're going to find is
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a detachable mic okay so that's nice and flexible so you can position it where
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you need it to be okay you've got little
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Jack there plugs into the headset at some point so I'll show you how that works later uh here we have a
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screwdriver so that presumably is for
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the interchangeable lenses which I will show you in a minute
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here we have a charging cable so that's just your standard USB a to mini
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whatever that is it's a six pin it looks
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like five pin okay all right so here we
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go let's go ahead and start taking the packaging off here taking off all the
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protective seals and whatnot I can't find the uh USB
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transmitter I don't know what happened to it so you know what give me a sec guys I'll get all this off and then I'll
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find that transmitter and I'll be back okay so we got some safety
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instructions here so no cars no motorcycles never drive or motorcycle
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always take your flying Griffin or whatever it is okay then we have our USB
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transmitter here as as well as the syn keyy there's a little LED indicator
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light looks very World of Warcraft themed and it also comes with a little
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thing to attach a lanyard or other carrying strap plugs in by USB as youve
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probably figured out by now and what I realized while I was off camera was that
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this has two pouches so I'm guessing one
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for this and then one for like this and
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maybe this goes in there too so you have a way to carry not only the headset but
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also the accessories we also have an important notice here please note Sound
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Blaster R World of Warcraft R voice tap
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is now known as Sound Blaster World of Warcraft voice tap TM okay so be very
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clear if you're ever telling your friends about voice tap you got to make
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sure you get the proper uh proper you
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know notes in there don't want to do that wrong okay speaking of voice tap
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actually let's talk about voice tap so voice tap is pretty cool that's one of
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the features of this headset that is very very relevant so voice tap has is
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an optional accessory here let's let's check out the headset itself here so
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right left there you go it's going to look a little something like that very
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cushiony hold on a
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second okay you can't hear it but it sounds really like squeaky in your ear
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when you push on it like that but there's a lot of air and foam cushioning
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in here very very comfortable my ears actually hardly even make contact with
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the inside of the head of the earphone in any way like whether it's along the
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outer rims or on the inside where the speaker is so that's uh that's a very
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good feature for World of Warcraft cuz you know when you're raiding or doing
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whatever takes a really long time it takes a really long time uh you've also
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got a good amount of foam padding here on the top once that gets broken in it's
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going to definitely conform to your head and it's going to make this even more
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comfortable as time goes on um okay so
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here are the interchangeable lenses so you can see there's like kind of a lion
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looking dude on there now and then uh
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here there's a little Shield guy or something I actually don't know what
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that is I'm sure someone can uh post a comment on the video and tell crazy
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Russian and myself what what these are okay so there's that uh you've also got
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volume control so here's volume minus Volume Plus I'm a huge fan of volume
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control built right into the side of the headset it's so convenient oh okay you
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know I can't hear just go like this it's awesome compared to actually taking your
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hand off the mouse because I very much prefer to take my hand off the keyboard
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that's my left hand versus taking my hand off the mouse for uh game control
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okay here we've got
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uh our charging port okay cuz this is
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Wireless remember guys but I'm very happy to see a built-in battery versus
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uh the other way around we have our mic connection right there okay we have a
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mic mute SLC connect button awesome outstanding love it so the mic mute is
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also built onto the left of your phone so you can easily mute your mic and you
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know like Mom I'll be 5 minutes for dinner or whatever it is that you need
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to Hot Pockets okay um on off that's
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good you want to preserve your battery life and on the other side no control so
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this is definitely uh Geared for right-handed people so left-handed
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people will have to you know adjust things a little bit but I really don't
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think it's the end of the World of Warcraft all right other
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features volume system interchangeable headphones detachable microphone USB
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wireless boy voice FX cool so you can morph your voice into Different World of
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Warcraft characters and creatures with voice ofx technology that's kind of neat
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and then let's talk about that tapping thing here we go Sound Blaster World of
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Warcraft voice tap oh they forgot the TM no way look at that okay map your push
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to talk key or favorite macro to the optional foot control P pedal keeping
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your hands free to control the game so that way you are able to keep yet
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another mouse binding key free to do something else and you can just use your
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foot pedal to you know C spells or you know what you should bind it to like
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move forward right right foot pedal move
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forward awesome right okay what else do we got here the audio control panel and
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I think that's pretty much it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and
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first look at the World of Warcraft
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