| | |  | Gaming Headsets | Home » » » Creative Sound Blaster Tactic3D Sigma Gaming Headset | | | | | | | Description: | | Evolve your game with immersive 3D audio, thanks to THX TruStudio Pro Technology Experience high-resolution 3D gaming audio with the Sound Blaster Tactic3D Sigma gaming headset. Hear the clash of weaponry and the sound of footsteps as if they are really happening with high-resolution 50mm Neodymium drivers that produce the finer details of game audio. Touchscreen software and TacticProfile™ allow you to save and share your favorite settings including THX® TruStudio Pro Surround™ for immersive 360° headphone surround and VoiceFX™ voice morphing technology. In addition, enjoy a choice of analog or USB connection with Dual Mode™. Use the headset in analog mode with standard minijacks or connect the Dual Mode™ USB adapter to your PC or Mac for the full THX TruStudio Pro™ experience.  | Dual Mode - Analog or USB, your choice!
Connect the headset via 3.5mm minijacks to your Sound Blaster sound system, onboard audio or MP3 player. Alternatively, use the THX TruStudio Pro Dual Mode USB Adapter to connect to your PC or Mac via USB. |  | THX TruStudio Pro technology
THX TruStudio Pro Surround audio immerses you in the game so you hear sounds clearly from the front, back, around, above and below. Only THX TruStudio Pro Surround delivers truly 3D audio surround effects to give you the gaming advantage you need. |  | High-resolution driver units
Nothing speaks more clearly of great sound than the high-resolution 50mm Neodymium drivers that unveil fine details with sonic accuracy to deliver the best gaming experience ever. |  | Tailor your sound with touchscreen controls
Customizable TacticControl™ driver interface optimized with Live!Touch™ for touchscreen controls under Windows 7 operating system gives you full control over every nuance of the THX TruStudio Pro audio suite as well as custom graphic equalizer and VoiceFX controls. |  | Customize and share optimized audio settings
Customize your own TacticProfile™ EQ and audio profiles, and then export and share them with other gamers. You can also use pre-configured audio settings from world-renowned gamers such as Fatal1ty, compLexity and Team Dignitas. |  | Have fun with different gaming voices
Morph your voice into different in-game characters with VoiceFX technology and restore surround audio to your Windows XP games in Windows 7 with Creative ALchemy. |  | Built to last
A steel core headband ensures a precise fit, and offers maximum durability for marathon gameplay. |  | Effortless communication with your team-mates
Use the Sound Blaster Tactic3D Sigma headset with your favorite gaming communications software such as Ventrilo or TeamSpeak. |
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 9.84 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.39 inches | | Product Height:
| 13.19 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.35 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 67 reviews |
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11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Great gaming headset!Dec 26, 2010
By D. McMillan
"The Game Collector"
Hello this is one of my first reviews but i will try to give you all the pros and cons of this great headset.
Installation
First of it comes in great packaging, easy to open box, not one of those stupid plastic containers that you have to cut open (you know the kind i mean). Installation is very easy you just take it out of box, go to [...] and download the driver/program for your computer. You then plug the headset into the little usb dongle that game with it, and plug that into a usb port on your computer, and your are set you can start up the program then.
HEADSET
These headsets are set up great, they are nice and big (for anyone like me with big head this is great feature) but they arent so big that it wont fit people with small heads as well. You can adjust them a ton to fit anysize. If you have sigma like me it also has a steel layer inside headband so it wont crack like many headsets do over months/years of putting on and taking off headset. The cord coming from the headset is great, its a rubbery thin ribbon that makes it so it doesnt have stupid bends in it after you take off the retraint (most cords have those dam bends all over so it makes it hassle to get full length out of them) and non tangle design so it doesnt get all knotted up in transport, only downside to cable is its not super long maybe like 6ft. Mic is very nice plugged it in jumped into left 4 dead 2 and chatted with freinds right away without having to adjust any settings and they said i was clear as day. This headset has nice swivel ear cups so if someone is talking to you all you have to do is swivel it away from ear to hear them well as these headsets do cancel noise relatively well. For comfort these are great overall, they took me a while to get the hang of from my old headset but dont be discouraged if they feel wierd at first i spent 4 hours gaming last night and they nvr really got uncomfortable. Made my ears a little bit warm but not too bad. The earpads are made of a squishy leatherlike material, and on the sigmas there is a similar material pad on top so it sits nicely on head. Thats about it for the design of headset.
SOUND/SURROUND SOUND
Almost forgot the most important section lol, how they sound!! First off i tried playing some music mainly techno, rap, and rock. All sounded great. Audio is crystal clear and bass is really deep! For the surround sound feature i played Left 4 dead 2 and Battlefield BC2 to test it out and you can definitly clearly tell which direction sounds are coming from where as with normal headsets its kinda just played over both speakers and hard to distinguish the direction it came from. Most games you will have to tinker with the in game sound settings to get surround working but most arent too bad. Buy ya overall they make good surround sound and are technically better than both 5.1 and 7.1 surround sound setups because it plays sound for the complete 360degree area around you as well as above and below which no other headsets do (well do well at least).
INSIDE THE PROGRAM
The program that sigma and alpha headsets use is a very nice program, you have to have the headset plugged in to start it up which is a minor inconvienence sometimes but no big deal. As far as setup of program when your first start it up it opens to profile chooser where you can try out different premade profiles and modify and save your own settings how you like them. On that Main menu you can also adjust the mic volume and master volume.
THX Trustudio Pro
This is the main feature you will be spending time with in this program, here it allows you to change all the different effects for how sound will sound when playing into your ears. I wont go over every single adjustment category as they are pretty straight forward but to sum up you can adjust Surround sound, bass, crystalizer (enhance music/movies to make them sound livlier), dialog plus(enhances voices so u can understand them better), and smart volume(minimizes sudden volume changes). Along with this area is a nice little demo video that you can play to test out all the sound effects you are changing.
Equalizer
This is where you can customize how the audio sounds (mainly for music i believe) for example you can set it on flat, dance, rock, country etc etc. You can also completely customize your own favorite settings and save them as presets.
Voice FX
Heres a fun little tool that allows you to morph your own voice into wierd sounding creatures, the opposite gender, eldery people, robots, and many more options. FUN FEATURE: if you see the PASSCODE tab on way right and enter in UUDDLRLRBA it will unlock voicefx customizability so you can adjust the voice morphing any ways you want and save your own presets.
Appearence Tab
Here you can do basic stuff like select color theme for the program, also if you enter IDSPISPOPD at passcode tab it will allow you even more theme changing options!
FINAL SUMMARY
To sum it all up these headsets are very nice for the 90$ i paid. I give the comfort 4/5 stars, sound quality 5/5 starts, Surround Sound is 4/5 stars and cost isnt too bad there are a lot of more expensive headsets out there with less features. I would definatly reccomend these headsets to friends who are looking for a good gaming headset. Sorry for spelling and grammar errors lol i wrote this kind of fast.
Have fun with new headset if you decide to buy these, you wont regret it!
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Great Headset ... When It's Working Properly!Jan 19, 2011
By Hector J. Vazquez
"Sketch"
Ok I can get real techy about this but I will not. I'm gonna keep it simple & to the point.
Sound (4/5): The sound is AMAZING!!! It's everything it's advertised to be & it has killer bass that rattles your brain if you're into that sorta thing. I took 1 star away because when I am in game sometimes the settings I have set change on their own for some reason dropping surround & some other feature & then I have to alt+tab out of game & reset them to what I had them at which is annoying, but could be a compatibility issue & not so much the hardware.
Mic / Recording (5/5): I was a bit sketchy on what to rate this because when it was working it was working GREAT & everyone said I sounded clear & crisp. However, after 2 weeks of using it all of a sudden it just stopped working. It isn't broken, it just stopped working ... looked online & seems people running Windows 7 are having this issue; you can Google it if you don't believe me. So that's why I rated it as 5 because its a great mic ... but only when its working ... I instead decided to take the stars away below under Compatibility.
Durability (5/5): They feel very sturdy & the steel bar in the headband reassures me that they aren't gonna snap like their plastic Alpha counterpart. The flat wire also prevents knotting.
Size & Weight (2/5): Okay maybe I am being a big baby about this part but the size is expected for the sheer power & sound that these cans put out ... but the weight is annoying at times because they literally fall off my head if I so much as look downward or up then they slide right off my head ... mind you I do not have a small head either. I guess this is hit or miss depending on the person using them.
Compatibility (1/5): This is my biggest gripe. It says its compatible with Windows 7 & at first they were working perfectly, then 2 weeks later out of no where the microphone stopped working. I have tried doing EVERYTHING from reinstalls to driver updates & its juts not wanting to work. I checked online in forums & such & it seems to be a common issue. So that's my main complaint ... don't go claiming you work for a certain OS when you don't!!!
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
 Microphone stops working randomlyFeb 16, 2011
By Eduardo Rea
Please see the review from another reviewer reporting the same problem.
This headset is awesome, great sound and nice weight and quality. The microphone however, randomly stops working. I have tried both direct connections to my sound card and USB and the microphone just doesn't work. It worked for 2 days or so before all of a sudden going silent and never coming back.
The issue might be Windows 7 64 bit as i tried it with another laptop and it works perfectly fine...then again it also worked perfectly fine on my desktop for a few days before failing.
Creative Labs tech support is atrocious and they are absolutely no help so i would avoid this headset. It's a shame since it's so nice.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Flimsy PlasticNov 24, 2011
By Jonny Moseley
I bought these headphones with the hopes that they would be better than my $30 Plantronics Gaming Headset. I was completely wrong. These headphones look great in the box, but when you take them out and actually put them on your head is where the problems start, and there are a lot of problems. These headphones are made from cheep flimsy plastic that will break if used heavily. The cans do not stay on my head, and I have a rather large head. If I leaned over, the headphones would fall off. The headphones are able to be twisted which is never good, meaning that you can hold the two sides parallel and then move your hands forward and backward, keeping the cans in line and twisting the frame. The entire thing doesn't feel good.
These headphones don't even sound that good. They put out just as much sound as my current headphones and they cost 2.5x more. The audio software with it is nice, but it isn't a selling feature for me. There are so many other problems. The headset doesn't play well with Windows 7 64bit, so that is a big problems. The microphone on this unit is complete garbage. I bought a $10 table mic from Walmart that sounds better than the one that came with this unit. It is absolutely terrible. And to top it all off, the microphone with this headset WILL go out, meaning stop working, after a period of time while using Win7-64bit. It is a problem with their hardware and their software.
Don't waste your time and money with this product, I had it for 2 hours and it was already back in the package on its way to Amazon. Try Corsair or Plantronics, they make a quality headset that everybody should try.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Mic does not work!!! However....Dec 29, 2011
By Adrock
I purchased these to compliment my Creative Fatality Pro sound card. I have been a Creative supporter for a long time and thought these would be great. I was dead wrong. Just like the sound card I had issues with software. I was always able to fix my SC problems but I have tried everything and I can't get the mic to work. I am running W7-64 bit. Nvidia 285's SLI, 1000 watt power supply, I7 960hz processor, 16gb ram. I agree with all the posts about it sounding great but if the mic doesn't work, what are they good for??? NOTHING! I game and I need the mic. I was going to replace a G35 Logitech headset but I guess not. They do sound much better than the G35's. They are very light and comfortable. Seem well made. Good price at Amazon. Just like other review's, I really wanted these to work. It's something in the software, not the headset. I would not reccommend these to any one running Windows 7. :( SEE COMMENTS
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