Antlion Audio - ModMic Wireless

ModMic Wireless, this is the way. They are unmatched for quality. There is a reason they are basically the industry leader and have been for years.

Modmic wireless, it’s $130 which isn’t cheap but it has great sound quality and decent battery life. Another option is to just get a new headset, valve index and bigscreen beyond both have great mics

It seems overkill to use recording mics for video calls. Have you considered just a headset mic? Antlion make some decent headset mics that you can just stick onto the side of your headphones. I use the Modmic wireless with my Sennheiser HD650 headphones and it works well as a combo. [ModMic, a new microphone concept – Antlion Audio](https://antlionaudio.com/collections/microphones)[ModMic, a new microphone concept – Antlion Audio](https://antlionaudio.com/collections/microphones) [ModMic, a new microphone concept – Antlion Audio](https://antlionaudio.com/collections/microphones)

Well done, im also using the Modmic (wireless in my case) for all my headphones because i dont like having a stand alone mic in front of my face all the time. Also never had problems with the magnet and i put it on many planars over the years. Still curious how Stax headphones sound, but somehow i always skipped them.

Antlion Wireless for sure, depends on your headset, though. Quest 2 mic is totally decent, while the Quest 3 mic is utter poopoo. Antlion Wireless isn't stellar quality, just handy and decent for streaming; don't expect it to be like a studio condenser, it's basically just a reliable lav mic on a bendy arm (not that that's a bad thing). You're paying for convenience and reliability, not necessarily AMAZING sound quality. Could also go for a wireless Lavalier Microphone or "Lav" mic. A lot of options on Amazon, even some reliable cheap options. Main advice is always go to youtube and search up the specific model number to find a review and mic test; there's always someone that's tested one so you can see yourself. Main things to look up are battery life, mic quality (hear it yourself), and if it's reliable (doesn't disconnect often).

Antlion Modmic Wireless. Very good quality audio for what it is.

\*cough\* ModMic Wireless \*cough\* [https://amzn.to/49nyYfR](https://amzn.to/49nyYfR) Been using em for like 5 years + at this point.

Yeah I'm going to disagree on that. Out of that video, the modmic sounds less tin sounding. Theres also these things called equalizers to iron out any finer details you may care about. Like seriously, the side by side makes the Qpro sound like dogwater, probably not the best example of the Qpro mic to make a point.

Noise Gates, AI filtering, and a dozen other things can remove any background noise. Welcome to using a decent mic. End of the day, I rec the modmics for VR in general. I used them when content creation/streaming was my literal job, and I still use them today because nothing else can touch the flexibility of them + the sound quality is above average. Are there better desk mics and what have you? Sure. But otherwise? No way. One clearly sounds better than the other. That compression sounds like butt. If you honestly can't hear that high pitch tin sound when they're talking, uh, please get your hearing checked I guess? The only built in headset mic I've felt "worth it" to use for any amount of time was the index and even then I swapped to gamer headsets, then the modmic to keep the breathing to a minimum. Is the Qpro mic decent? Yeah, without a doubt. Its just not "better" than pretty much any external mic that isn't some cheap ass 15 dollar gaming headset. Even stuff like the mid/higher end hyper x wireless ones dunk on all the built in ones honestly. Being able to move the mic from in front of your mouth/nose is also a huge selling point as well. Will agree on cost. 150 is stiff. But its got a 2 year warranty and the company is crazy good about customer service and support stuff. Plus you can bounce it around to other things like other headsets, headphones, whatever. I wouldn't of pulled the trigger had I of not be doing VR stuff professionally. I'm glad I did, because its been great, but I can totally see not pulling the trigger at 150 without some kind of push. They do refurbs and stuff as well on the website and they dipped toes into the IEM world as well. :) You should consider learning about EQs and voice filtering if you're mostly happy with the Qpro mic. Because outside of buying a gamer headset or something like a modmic, theres just not a lot of good options for VR. Using a desk/xlr whatever is a huge pain to get setup right and it basically requires you to hang the thing mid playspace above your head. Thats the only way i've ever seen one of those setup that sounded "ok". Sitting here re-reading your op. Are you sure this isn't a "them" problem? if all your loopback tests sound good, and the in game stuff, I find it hard to believe it sounds "bad". I've played plenty with an ex co-worker who used the qpro mic and it never sounded bad, ever. Sure some breathing now and then but nothing id consider a problem.

Been using a modmic for years. Only thing i recommend tbqh.

I don't know if there are plugin mics, but I game daily and have never found a gaming headset as comfy as my quiet comfort ultras, so I bought this: [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KQF165L](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KQF165L) \- attaches to the headset with a little magnet mount and is a great mic. Use it daily.

It will work with anything because the little mount just has double back sticky tape on it basically. The mount is always on and I just grab the mic and it magnetized to the mount when I need the mic. I’ve had it over a year and love it. The ONLY downside is you get no audio cue the mic needs charging. I just charge mine like once a week to top it off and I play probably 3 hours daily. https://preview.redd.it/t3xa7d869n5g1.png?width=1639&format=png&auto=webp&s=6eba57bc7d4acaa8b17c5375266a813b424f485f

I also use this. Modmic wireless 👍

Yeah but it sounds worse in ways to the Qpro mic lol, and it's not enough of an upgrade even if you prefer it for the cost. https://youtu.be/AgUlCsLzhVs?si=zPODaWSGhnYgd6PG

Yeah well we have strong disagreements about sound quality then. To me they sound near equal, with the mod mic sounding worse because it picks up too much background noise where as the Qpro compression will making it sound *slightly* more..."tinny" as you put it. Isolates the voice better To me the difference isn't enough to justify the cost and I typically consider myself pretty anal about microphone sound. In any case, the mics I'm trying to get to work in vrchat in this example given in the OP are way better mics than both in practice, studio quality, but something is making them come through virtual desktop or the game worse.