Gaming experiences and da MIC
Gaming
Testing out the Corsair Gaming VOID RGB we used a handful of games, Battlefield 4, Metro Last Light, and Project CARS.
Battlefield 4
Battlefield 4 does everything part 3 does, only better in about every way, including sound. The VOID actually does a good nice job of presenting environment detail, and in the FPS competition mode the bass gave some nice growl to the music and environmental sounds. Here you might want to enable the Dolby surround feature. But decide for yourself. The headset scores very highly on voice and explosion effects.
Metro Last Light
Metro Last Light is a game that you get yourself immersed in, good atmosphere, decent graphics still, and (why we choose it) a beautiful sound design. Sound wise it's all good. Much like the H2100 the VOID sounds good at immersing you in the ambient sound envelope of the game, you feel like you are inside the world. The bass feels spot on, that thumping sound you get in a movie theatre. The dialog in Metro came through fine as did the environment sounds. But in the rear part of the audio environment you miss out on real environmental positioned noises. See, the VOID is not a real 7.1 channel headset, it simply emulates surround from its true source. That remains to be the biggest caveat for this headset, it's advertised as Dolby 7.1 while it is merely trying to simulate a similar effect. And while it isn't bad at it, it simply isn't true 7.1 channel sound.
Project CARS
Rally and racing games have just about everything you could want if you're not into hardcore simulation. PCars has very realistic sounds, especially engine and gear noise, which are the heart and soul of a car. The headset is real darn perfect with PCars. Other than missing an apex or an occasional gear shift you will miss nothing.
Now we do need to mention 7.1 surround sound again. You can hear simulated sounds behind you but emulating just isn't real 7.1. Once I disabled Dolby surround, the overall sound picture was much nicer. Also when that engine growls at you this way the headset delivers some great bass.
Microphone
As part of our protocol we tested the microphone out with a number of applications, Skype and some co-op play, playing back the sound samples with Audacity. The headset has a great microphone, plenty of gain, very good clarity and very low noise and hum, as well as very good noise (echo) cancellation. Pretty much it seems to be on par with and similar to the Vengeance 1500 and 2000/2100. Noise (echo) cancellation actually works surprisingly well.
