Logitech G Pro X gaming headset assessment: sensible mic tech for streamers, however with underwhelming audio

The new Logitech G Pro X is the corporate’s newest gaming headset, seeking to step away from the over-designed conventional gamer aesthetic and shift extra into the skilled scene. And perhaps take a few of us regular folks together with it for the trip… I imply, all of us need to be 1337 professional avid gamers, proper?

But it’s not simply concerning the look, the Logitech G Pro X can be seeking to set a brand new customary in headset microphones too. By together with the Blue Vo!ce [vom!t] know-how you may tune the sound of your voice with the identical type of skilled stage filters that you just would possibly discover within the high-end studio scene. I’m not going to fake that the microphone connected to this headset goes to upstage any devoted studio mic, however the filters on supply are the identical and may make your voice sound as soothing over the nets because it does in actual life… you honey-tongued hero, you.

Logitech has frolicked within the firm of esports execs, enlisting their assist in the creation of a pair of cans it hopes would be the finest gaming headset round. But how shut has it obtained?

The important tagline for the brand new Logitech G Pro X gaming headset is: “so all gamers, of all abilities, can hear and sound like a pro.” Because tech corporations assume we should always all aspire to be skilled avid gamers and/or streamers that’s how we at the moment are being offered {hardware}; from headsets, to keyboards, mice, graphics playing cards, and even processors.

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But neglect the advertising and marketing for a second, if the push for a extra professional model from Logitech means we get peripherals that seem like this I’m offered. I’m a really shallow human individual, and the look of my headset means loads… which is why I’ve powder pink cat ears connected to the Thresher Ultimates I take advantage of within the workplace.

The new styling of the Pro X, and the Blue-less Pro variations, is traditional, restrained, and appears for all of the world like a pair of studio cans. Well, aside from the massive ‘G’ standing proud from the aluminium-finished ear cup. But they do look good, and truthfully reasonably acquainted. I recognize HyperX doesn’t have a monopoly on this traditional look – the unique Cloud Pro headset was basically only a rebadged QPad QH-90 in any case – nevertheless it does very a lot seem like Logitech’s spied the gaming headset most of us agree is the perfect and tried to ape it.

It’s no carbon copy, nonetheless, regardless of how acquainted the seems to be are. The 50mm Pro-G drivers have been tuned with redesigned magnets and housing, in comparison with the corporate’s earlier 40mm drivers, and also you get equalizer choices, by way of the G-Hub app, that may arrange your Pro X headset in precisely the identical manner as your favorite esports professional. There are additionally further EQ profiles from Logitech G devs and different customers.

We chatted with Logitech G’s Andrew Coonrad concerning the esports tuning pre-launch, and its professional avid gamers obtained totally concerned in tweaking the EQ settings for the Pro X headset, ensuring their very own profiles match their specific play kinds and preferences.

And guess what, each single considered one of them turned up the low-end frequencies. You may both take that because the Pro X cans are a bit light-weight on the bass tones, or you can go along with “them gamerz like they ‘splodes.”

Seeing because the headset does already sound fairly sturdy even with a pleasant, flat EQ, I’m going with the latter.

Aside from the esports tuning, the Pro X additionally has one other feather in its cap, one which I might argue is much extra related, and in addition so easy you’ll surprise why it’s not been completed earlier than: the microphone tuning is good. The collaboration with Blue Microphones is likely to be answerable for the reprehensible Vo!ce branding, which makes me need to vomit within the mushy headphone sack Logitech provide you with to retailer your cans in, however the way in which it permits you to hear what your voice seems like earlier than you get on a name, chat, or a stream is improbable.

In the G-Hub app you may document a pattern of your voice utilizing the headset’s removable mic after which play it again on a loop when you mess around with the completely different equaliser  settings and filters to get your chocolate-smooth vocals sounding pretty much as good as they’ll. Again there are a number of presets you need to use, or you may get down and soiled with the person filters themselves.

Neither Logitech and Blue have created these filters, they’re customary use in studio setups, however by supplying you with the choice to make use of them on a gaming headset, and permitting you to tweak them with a stay pattern, it means you may get the perfect sound earlier than you actually need it. For the streamer who doesn’t need to spend large on a discrete Blue mic that is arguably the subsequent neatest thing.

I simply want the precise headset itself sounded higher. Don’t get me fallacious, I feel the tuned 50mm drivers sound advantageous; there’s a superb quantity of element within the low-end so even when it’s getting messy in Battlefield’s common bombardments the audio’s not getting distorted. There’s good depth and separation down there too, it’s simply that on the excessive finish it doesn’t sound so good, particularly when there’s loads happening within the higher ranges. When one thing just like the HyperX Cloud Alpha, or the Razer Thresher Ultimate, is ready to separate tones so properly in any respect ranges it highlights the place these 20Hz – 20kHz drivers begin to fall down.

Audio is clearly subjective although, and I assume avid gamers are typically extra forgiving of audio high quality – if there are tightly tuned explosions then that’s usually sufficient. But for those who’ve been uncovered to headsets with superior drivers – and so they don’t all the time value loads – then it may be powerful to return. I’m additionally not all the time gaming utilizing my headset both, and the Pro X does appear to battle with some excessive definition audio.

And when Logitech is asking some $130 (£110) for the privilege, it feels a little bit too wealthy for the sound you’re getting in return. Sure, the DAC, the place it can save you all of your profiles to take with you for all these gaming tournaments you’re certain to seek out your self participating in now you’ve obtained a Pro headset, is a welcome addition to the package deal, and the Blue Vo!ce implementation is super-smart, however I would like all that on prime of great-sounding audio, not as an alternative of it.

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