Ableton Forum

has anyone tried using a gaming headset as a mic and for sound in ableton? i seen a few around that are meant to be good and wondered if they'd work, just for a laugh mind...

I have some turtle beach's and they have some hiss through the mic, so I wouldn't recommend those. If you are wanting to get around not have an actual audio interface I suggest getting the Blue Yeti USB mic ($90 amazon) and download and install the ASIO4ALL asio audio drivers (free). I use both of these for my travel set up. Of course you will still need a set of headphones, your ipod earbuds should do. I'm about to drop so major doe on some Audio Technica headphones ($150 amazon).

i have a pair of dt-770s so i'm ok for headphones. just wanted to know if anyone had tried it? they seem to be mostly usb so i would assume you could load it as an audio device of some kind...

If they're recognizable as an audio device, they should work. You're not going to get serious audio quality out of them of course, but I suspect that's not what you're after

certainly not after audio quality, more as a way to monitor the master channel aswell as use to mic to record at the same time, in a live context, thought it could be fun to try a gig looking like a i work in a call center.

figured using soundflower with an aggregate device on mac would give me some routing flexibility.