V-Moda BoomPro Microphone | for Gaming & Communication | Wired - 3.5 mm Jack | Flexible Boom | Clip-on Controller with Mute Button & Volume Wheel | Black

This thing has been great. It is very difficult for microphones to be loud enough when they are sitting on your desk and your mouth is far away, but with it attached to your headphones it picks up everything and is very clear. Great for voice calls. Now I can use my comfy headphones and have a good mic at the same time.

I'm writing this review as an update because i notice most of the other reviews seem to be a little old and didn't really address the questions i needed answered before I purchased. after hours of research, i still felt like i was taking a risk by buying this, so here goes my attempt to help some people before buying it: First and foremost, I purchased these to use on an XBOX ONE with my brand new BEATS PRO HEADPHONES that i bought a few days ago at a black friday sale. I have BOTH microphone adapters for my controllers, that is to say, I have the adapters with and without the keyboard. I figured since my Samsung Galaxy headphones worked great, a pair of Beats would be even better. i was wrong. I was sorely disappointed to find that the original microphone cable would not transmit the sound of my voice, and it felt like i had just wasted a few hundred bucks. Especially after i asked around at best buy and the associates told me that beats headphones wouldn't work with anything besides a Beats brand cable. That seemed odd, so i did more research of my own... which brings me to the meat and potatoes of my review. after viewing a few videos on YouTube, i stumbled upon this cable. Let me tell you right out the gate that IT WORKS PERFECTLY WITH MY BEATS AS IS. the quality is actually much better than I had even anticipated and I didn't even need to buy any extra adapters. Just plug and play. that's why I'm giving it 5 stars. Definitely worth the 30 dollar investment to make good use of a set of headphones you already have instead of buying another set of Two or Three hundred dollar headphones to achieve the very same quality. Now that we've got that settled, I'd like to address some questions I had that i couldn't find an answer to. Here's what I found for those of you who may be wondering the same things (Please keep in mind, this my experience with BEATS PRO. outcome may vary depending on whatever headphones you're looking to augment with this microphone:) The Y cable that youtube and amazon recommend you purchase alongside this microphone is NOT NECESSARY because it plugs into the xbox controller perfectly even without it. The microphone is built with a regular jack that has the THREE BANDS on it, just like the microphone that came with my Samsung Galaxy. I should also note that it comes with a Y cable that converts the jack for use with a computer or anything else that might need that sort of thing. Something else that was recommended to purchase alongside this microphone is an adapter for the jack that plugs into the headsets themselves. it's supposed to convert the TWO BAND jack into one with THREE BANDS. This is also NOT NECESSARY. I bought the adapter and tested the microphone with and without it.Turns out the headphones worked perfectly with and without the adapter. there was no real sound difference that I could notice, so it seems to just be a waste of 5 bucks for me. whatever though, better safe than sorry when it comes to these things. As for sound quality, this cable seems to be just as good as the original Beats brand cable that came with the headphones themselves. I'm super impressed with these, and I hope this review helps somebody looking to convert their beats into an awesome pair of gaming headphones.

I initially bought these for my Astro A40's because the microphone is horrible. Turns out the A40's don't work because Astro decided to use a longer 5 pole 3.5 jack which didn't work with this product. A shame I couldn't find an adapter either. So instead I am temporarily using the mixamp with the original Skullcandy Crusher wireless. I tried using the Crusher ANC, but the 3.5 jack is on the right side of the headphones and I didn't like having to rotate the microphone boom like that. The jack fits nicely though, it doesn't feel loose and it doesn't swing around. So far the sound quality is good, it does utilize the bass drivers in the Crushers. I mainly bought these because the microphone is incredible. Most programs I use such as Discord or Xbox party chat have filtering, but it does let a lot of background noise through normal voice recordings. Here are my cons so far: The braided cable makes a lot of noise and transmits into the microphone which can be heard with Astro's sidetone (feature that lets you hear yourself) enabled. There is no indicator when you are muted. The mute slider is not that good, I thought the logo was a giant mute button. You have to use a stand or be careful while laying your headphones down as this mic doesn't flip up or retract. There is some hiss noise at higher volume. The boom arm doesn't seem to have a lot of retention to hold it's position, might be an issue in the future.

had to get it after my bluetooth headphones started to sound funky on windows whenever i had any application that had a mic feature coded in, and it works perfectly. worked on sony wh1000xm5. worked on beats studio pro. very easy to use.

This product is what every gamer or even non-gamers need if they want to use a microphone with their quality headphones. It truly turns any headphones with a 3.5mm (or even 2.5mm if you can mod it, which I will explain more about) into the best headset ever. First off, if you do use something like the mod-mic, you're sticking something onto the headphones, it will be a mess if you want to take it off and clean all the gunk off. Plus it adds two cords that dangle and get snagged on everything beside you or under your computer chair or something extra to trip on, just annoying. This thing adds a microphone but also keeps everything to one high quality braided cord. Secondly, this thing sounds amazing. I mean that in both ways, the voice on the mic sounds great and no loss of quality on the headphones. Like, legit, it sounds super clear. V-MODA did a great job in designing this for quality and practicality. How nobody else has made something like this yet that sounds this good is beyond me. It has a mute toggle and volume scroll on the line, which is awesome. The mic is so easily adjustable, feels like it would be annoying and flop down a lot because of how easy it moves, but it really doesn't. They also made it so you can plug it into your phone or anything that uses a 3.5mm jack that can use mic and headset or just headset. Or you can put that single 3.5mm jack into the included splitter for computer use. They pretty much thought of everything. Now, as other reviewers have said, I got this for my Sennheiser 558 headphones (it also works for the 598 and 518 the same way.) So because they use 2.5mm, I had to buy a 2.5mm to 3.5mm adapter (I got it on amazon, just get a 3 pack as some don't work right and cut out sound, if none work, send it back and try again) and you have to open the headphones up and remove the little black locking mechanism out so you can plug the adapter in it. I used a tiny piece of gorilla tape to make the adapter a little larger so it fits in snug without ever falling out. Also, they include a 1 year warranty. I'm a V-MODA fan now. Next set of headphones I get will be V-MODA. If you're debating on getting this, don't. Just do it, it's best thing you will ever do for your headphones. Pros: - Great sound quality - Single cord so no worry to have to cable manage it - In line mic mute and volume wheel - Can just spin the mic around if you don't want it near your face, no need to flip it up or anything. - Can use in phone/music player with mic or on computer with included splitter - Easily detach it if you want to plug another cord in. - If the cord does get caught on something while you get up or are moving around, it will simply just unplug out of your headphones instead of potentially damaging the headset or cord - Bends any way you'd like super easy but holds to it's shape - 1 year warranty Cons: - I truly can't think of a downside to this Apologies for the flash in the pictures, I did this review pretty late at night. Shows the little 2.5mm to 3.5 adapter with it.

Microphone is amazing, sound is clear compared to probably EVERY USB microphone that exists. Extremely simple to mute and control the volume; quite literally a simple plug-and-play. It's a nice clean look, the range is soso but not overly bad on it. The TWO main issues I have, being the cable is 'sensitive' while having to adjust the cable here and there or else I'm getting single ear-cup audio on my HD599. EDIT: knocking down to 3 stars. The microphone is fine and crystal clear- however the cord is almost close to worthless. It has started non-stop cutting out sound to a single ear cup, or completely kills sound, because it's overly sensitive. But for $20 - this is probably THE best microphone I've ever used. I've got a pretty deep voice, and it picks up extremely well, whereas using a snowball ICE from years ago, and a Yeti sounded like mud. TO ADD; Paired with Sennheiser 599s, don't make the silly mistake I did, buying an adapter without the horrible locking mechanism Sennheiser added to their headphones lmao.

Literally the best mic I've ever found for my Sennheiser headset. The quality of the audio does not compare to the OEM cord but it comes close enough that for gaming and discord I don't notice enough. Movies and songs still sound great and I've used this for years before I had to buy a new one. I strongly recommend this product

I'm sitting here outside and I figured that I would actually give a proper review to this microphone because I've seen it getting praised and this is not deserve that one star that I had to give it and I'm going to explain why and this will save you the trouble and hassle of buying one and perhaps exchanging it and trying again like I did. The build quality is very flimsy you can tell it's made to break very easily but that has nothing to do with it I'm very careful with my stuff trust me I mean there's a lot of stress points on there and I didn't stress a single thing out and I had the first one for 28 days and I had my replacement for one night I got the same amount of use of the both the first one I bought I tested it it sounded great probably use it for about just an hour just to test the levels and see how you know basically what I did was I wanted to use it on my Mobius headset because it's just not worth buying a Penrose just to get a USB key so they strip way too much out of it and they used like a really terrible chip set so I mean if you're looking at the Mobius don't be enticed by the Penrose because it's just a Band-Aid version of the Mobius for example well anyone who has a way to connect Bluetooth I guess you can use dongles but my LGC too and I can hear everything beautiful wirelessly over Bluetooth so I was like well I might as well get a boom mic and it sounded amazing when I bought one last month and March of 2023 and then I tried it like 28 Days Later two days before you can return it and I could I tested it I want to go send like a message without actually sending the message so I was like I play it back and hear my voice and my voice was like all loud and staticky as if like you tuning a radio dial and you're not quite a the right Mark for the station and I would say probably got an hour and a half of use same thing happened in one session cuz I wasn't going to go weeks without using it this time the very first night the same thing happened so I'm leaving to see the point in recommending the windscreens I got for him somebody recommended really good windscreens on here but I mean the boom X pro I was not enticed to buy a lot of reviews are said it wasn't as good as the first one microphone wise and I heard how it sounds this thing is really good it doesn't pick up any fan noise or any of that kind of stuff the problem is I feel like a couple hours of use with no tension no stress on the cables anything it's just craps out it sounds so good though at first but it's really really flimsy you can't even put like you know the slang term you can't put like a furry dead cat on the end of it it looks different than it is it's not I'm telling you I handled it so delicately I mean I even clipped the you know the controls not right on my neck cuz you don't need to but like above my you know my pack like right on just I just you know pinch my shirt and it had plenty of Slack there was no way it could you know get messed up from showing your head it did what it was supposed to do however it only sounded and did it properly on the microphone side of it was is that that's the whole point of it I mean so the other people can hear you and you know anyone nowadays with a lot of smart TVs I know this dongles and stuff like that Bluetooth but the best the easiest way at least for me that I've come across simply if you're headphones can connect to your TV then you're already feeling sound to it and I was really enjoying the fact that I can just you know use the Bluetooth cuz I've done it before like watch movies and stuff so it was an alternative so that I'm getting rid of the optical cable and all that and also you're not getting the cheaper headset and by the way I did get a pen Rose against my better judgment first at one time and they're complete you're getting under those last but you're just paying for that key I would imagine the same on PS5 Mobius is what I wanted and actually I want one more pair from them and that's the LCD X's like $1,000 ones I don't a consumer doesn't need higher than that to be honest you know someday I'll buy them cuz I like I really like the drivers and they do a better job than the steel series or whatever that they loan them out to if you will or whatever so but no stay away from this microphone seriously don't even bother cuz you're just going to get mad if you don't if I waited two more days it's only $20 so I wouldn't have been mad about that I probably would have bought another one anyway but I had two days because I mean I tested it it was fine I never touched it I didn't wrap it up funny or anything like that I just got very loose and just kept it off to the side where it never even got touched I just wasn't playing my Xbox where I was talking to people and I wasn't playing my Xbox a while so I can Nintendo switch and other things so I mean all I can tell you is the when I got the next one I didn't get any more use out of it in the first time it's just I used it for the same amount of time the first night I mean normally so these people that are reviewing it like especially like YouTubers are only reviewing it probably after they just put it like just started using it you know what I mean I see a couple people said there's after 5 years so they must have got really lucky but based off my experience their track record you know it's made in China it's very flimsy I'm telling you I had the perfect wind screen on it you would not believe it and I think the only directional Mike will sound better I can't speak on behalf of the boom Pro X but I would assume it'll crap out the same way on you I know it doesn't sound as good and also you can make sure you block the sound if you like have a air conditioner or fan running by since it's on the directional you can turn it up and down like instead of left and right just slightly you know what I mean you instead of having it the microphone pick up cuz it's only in two sides and that'll insure no nothing gets through that windscreen all you need is it's just a little black windscreen you don't need anything heavy nothing you can't even put some heavy on if you wanted to hang out behind your chin all I'm saying is you know it's up to you ultimately in the end and I just saw why not leave a review and I'm talking to my phone so I hope it came out legibly I don't want to type all of this because I am actually looking for something else but I'm not using Amazon I'm using the internet and you know maybe I'll buy it off Amazon but maybe not Amazon is typically I mean nothing's not everything passes a plus quality control I don't believe in my heart that Amazon sells you a plus stuff like Aretha sort of Best Buy probably does Walmart and other services like Lowe's is a little bit better than Home Depot I know this for I just do trust me you know it's just like like I wouldn't buy a battery like I bought a cream of batteries yeah 12 volt and you could have got it for $37 for you know free shipping here I paid a $57 and got it from scooterpro.com or whatever and I bet you wouldn't probably already had the acid in it I mean you know what I mean some of the tents might be a little incorrect cuz I'm talking I'm not looking at my phone it's it's enough for you to understand just don't buy the microphone don't do it this is going to keep making more of them put it let him go out of business because they suck they really do who cares if they have a one year warranty you're going to take it back to Amazon if you use it for a couple hours of First day it's going to break on you probably you know maybe not the very first day like it did for me but like both times it would have broke the first day if I use the other one didn't wait like 27 days in between it would have broke at the same exact time so I mean and I can tell because when I send the message you can see the the sound wave and I listen to it back and it was just all scratchy and staticky and extra loud and not the way it's supposed to sound then that's not how it sounds when you first plug it in and try it and I haven't so you know maybe you'll get lucky I don't know how that one person had a review so they had it for 5 years but I'm not I'm not saying that they're lying but I'm not saying you're going to break in an hour and a half but two of mine did I bet you it breaks you know if you use it regularly it will probably bring for the 30 days I'm sure of it it's crap it's it sounds awesome it that does everything you want to do but but it's made like crap and it turns into crap really fast BUYER BEWARE. I returned like literally 45 seconds later just to clarify when I was talking about ratings and products and whatnot I didn't have anything to do with this mic this might sucks buy it from V motive it's going to do the same thing I guarantee it it does sound crisp clean and clear like someone says but it doesn't last it does not last it'll just for most people I would assume or just about everyone advise it is going to frustrate him especially if they decide to give him another chance and get another one does the same exact thing that's why I'm leaving the review it's a safe other people that hassle there's other Mike's out there that cost a little bit more I want to look into the mod mic and stuff take it easy