One Question....
How do you guys who game on PC with an external DAC/amp have your mic hooked up?
When I game single player, I run optical out from the soundcard -> to an optical DAC -> then line out to a headphone amp - and it's nice and clean sounding. However, as soon as I plug the y-split mic jack portion of my v-moda boom cable into my PC soundcards, I get a bunch of annoying fuzzy electrical noise (where you're hearing the PC components electrically inside the case - where you move the mouse and it sounds "fuzzy" and stuff) all over the audio and mic signals. If I remove the audio jack from the external amp and plug both audio and mic jacks straight into the soundcard it's clean sounding again, but as soon as I move the audio jack away and back to the external dac/amp I get a ton of electrical noises.
I tried moving the power plugs all to the same outlet, in case it was a grounding issue, but that didn't change anything.
Even if I disconnect all sources from the headphone amp, it still picks up all the electrical noises inside the PC via that y-split mic cable going to the PC.
All the internal PC noises are getting to the amp through that Y mic cable.
I imagine that using the modmic will fix it, as that will isolate and separate the mic signal from the amplifier. But aren't there other people here who are successfully using a single cable y-split style headset on PC with an
external amp and not getting electrical noises??
I'm kind of stumped ATM....