Ok, this sounds a little crazy, but I am going to try anyway:
I am thinking about starting to do some commentaries while playing xbox games, and I decided that I am going to get a good pair of headphones and a separate desktop mic to speak into. However, when I am not recording, and just playing games, I came up with the crazy idea of somehow using the destop mic to speak into and hooking my headphones into the speakers my xbox uses. Is this even possible, or do I just have to get a headset for normal gaming/talking"?
Unfortunatly, to my knowledge anyway, you cannot use a desktop mic unless said mic is usb. Even if it is a usb mic I am not entirely sure how compatable it will be. Your best bet is to get liscensed hardware for Xbox.
I'm going to say this because someone will mention it eventually. You may want to just invest in a pc for gaming. I've never used a capture device on Xbox but I do know that they are expensive. You'll save money in the long run by using a PC. For about $550 you can build an AMD A10-6800K machine with a Radeon 7750 in crossfire. You will absolutely dominate the Xbox in quality and you will have a much easier time recording and editing your videos. Just make sure you have a big hard drive to store the raw footage. At 1080p FRAPS video files take up gigabytes and gigabytes of space. If you have any questions just ask anyone here, we all know a lot.
Regards, C. C. Edling
Ok. The headset I am looking at getting to use for recording comes with a mic I won't be using on it, but comes with 3.5 mm jack plug ins, so I could get an adapter and just use the headset with my xbox. Also, about the pc gaming, I do realize that. That is why I am currently in the process of getting parts for a gaming pc build! It isn't going to be anything major, as I don't have a ton of money to put into it, but it will be a good entry level system for today's games with decent fps. I still will be doing mostly xbox, as I have been a console gamer all my life, but this will hopefully start opening me up to the world of pc gaming, so I can get the best of both worlds. Thanks for the input!
No problem. I think you'll be interested in this list I have here; http://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=22461372
That is an APU rig I am building for a good friend of mine. It will handle almost anything you throw at it, within reason.
One thing I did want to mention, make sure before you buy a mic that it is compatible with Xbox. I've seen too many cases where someone buys a product and it isn't compatible. Read through reviews and see what others say. If you have any other questions or concerns just ask away.
Although that is a nice build, the only game that I play on pc right now (a simulator from 2001) has driver issues with amd/ati drivers and uefi mobo's in windows 8, which is what I am using as an os. So, I will be using a 650ti boost or a cheap 660 in my build (I am $630 to spend, maybe a little more if I wait)
Also, this is the headset I will probably be using http://www.razerzone.com/store/razer-kraken-pro and I will probably get something like a blue snowflake to use as a mic on my pc
In fact, I think this is the build I am going with: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1d26z
You might as well just get a 760. You will see a sizeable performance boost from the 760. You may also want to get an i5 or an FX processor. The i3 is going to bottleneck your whole system. Also, you might have issues with AMD GPUs but compatibility doesn't strech to CPUs. You can get FX processors for really cheap and they are really fast.
I was going for a mini-itx build, so I can't get an am3+ cpu or mobo. I know that the 760 would get me better performance, but my budget is $700, althought I can go a little over. I might be able to drop the hdd and use the 320gb one out of the computer I am replacing to get the 760, but I don't think I can get the i5. And, as you can probably figure, I will be doing video editing, so every one of your cpu's will do better than mine, I know.
The Haswell i5s are actually not as expensive as you would think. The i5-4570 is only $200 and z87 mobos are less than that. You can even overclock a little if you're daring. If you're still on the fence you could go with an AMD Radeon card. You could even go with the compact GTX 670 Logan featured in a video not long ago. There is so much you can do with PC all you have to do is look around and ask questions when needed.
Yeah, yo are right. After the making of this post, I was able to be hired at my local maintinence shop, and I decided to take every penny I make from that job and save it to make this build: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1e1dL I know, it is a little bit more than my original build, but if I save for a little while, I will be able to afford it!