OK you guys!!!
Hey if you would all get a cheap headset/boom microphone we could all use TeamSpeak and talk for free all day and or all night. Whatever you like.
I am going to check into the team Speak program over the next few days and see if I can get it going.
Cane Pole: Those mics that stand on the desktop are ok as long as you stay the same distance from them. If you move an inch away the mic's are going to give our problems. Well you won't see the problem but everyone that is trying to hear what you are saying on the VOIP will be saying "What the hell did he say" or they will say "Hey Cane Pole can you back away from the Microphone" or Hey Cane Pole can you get a bit closer to the microphone"
Trust me on this one. After being in a squad of 15 guys and using VOIP for over 4 years straight I know just what it's like to try to set the micrphone up.
One of the major keys to good sound using VOIP programs is the placment of the microphone. I used a mic that was built into my HP's monitor and every time I would move in my chair my squad mates started bitching that they could not hear me of that I was getting too loud. So I finally invested in a cheap ($20) Labtech Headset/boom mic with noise cancelling capabilities and that solved the problem. As for me talking too much well they could not solve that probem as easily
But with Teamspeak you can set up multiple channels and have one main channel for everyone to be on and then set up a side channel for just some people and then other side channels for other people. And the codex is selectable too.
Many people don't know how to set up their microphone's in Windows. There is a special procedure that I go though to make sure that the mic recording volume is just perfect. If you set the recording volume too low you can't be heard by everyone else and if you set it too high your speech is inaudiable to the others.
It pays to have good sound quality also. If you right click on the little speaker ion in the task bar you can find the sound recording properties of your sound card. The audio properties that is. Check that out sometime. You don't have to have a mic to check that area of windows out.
Cane Pole did you get the emails that I sent to you with the URL or links to team speak?