Is there one? My only complaint with the official one is that you can't hear yourself so you have no idea if you're talking too loud or breathing into it, or any of the other things that piss me off when I hear other people doing.

I think a lot of the issues with voice in 360 games could be minimized by forcing people to listen to themselves. I know those $100 Turtle Beach 360 headsets do this, but I don't want to spend that much. I'm not much of an audio guy, but is it really that hard to have the mic input go through the speaker to let you hear it? I wonder why microsoft didn't do this from the start.

I personally wouldn't want to hear myself talking, i think it would be quite annoying. I think a way to fix it would be to have a voice test, kind of like the one in Steam games.

hearing everything you say in an echo would get fucking annoying.

I don't want an echo. I googled and found that the term for this on analog and landline telephones is "sidetone". You know how when you're speaking on an old-fashioned hard-wired landline, you will hear yourself through the earpiece? This is what I'm talking about.

I guess that the reason this isn't done on digital phones is the delay from digital transmission, which may be a factor here too. But there must be a way around it if the $100 Turtle Beach 360 headsets have it. It would be an awesome feature to have, and most products don't seem to advertise it even if they do have it. Or maybe they do advertise it, but I'm unaware of the term?

hearing everything you say in an echo would get fucking annoying.

This.

If you want to know if you're talking too loud, then just fucking ask somebody.
As for general headsets, go with the Plantronics ones. $25, no 'sidetone'.

it doesnt fucking matter if your talking loud anyway. people could either mute you or just lower their mics. its not hard.

and seriously, who would want to hear themselves in an echo everytime they talked. That would get really really REALLY fucking annoying, really fast

ATTN illiterate faggots:

I'm not talking about an echo.

regardless of what you do, hearing youself speak through the mic and then hear it back into the earpiece is not going to tell you how loud you are. It just depends on the volume that you would have your mic on, and what other people have their headsets on. Why would you really want to hear yourself, when you can just normally hear your self? Just ask, and if people arent in the mood theyll mute you. not hard. deaf fuck

regardless of what you do, hearing youself speak through the mic and then hear it back into the earpiece is not going to tell you how loud you are. It just depends on the volume that you would have your mic on, and what other people have their headsets on. Why would you really want to hear yourself, when you can just normally hear your self? Just ask, and if people arent in the mood theyll mute you. not hard. deaf fuck
I guess you're too stupid to understand what I'm saying.

I guess you're too stupid to understand what I'm saying.

No he's saying why the fuck would you wanna hear your voice anyway. He's right you must have a really strange voice or something and besides it would get really fucking annoying having a echo everytime you talk.