Question for those who use headphones while gaming

I have been thinking about starting to game with headphones recently as I have been on shift work so im gaming late at night and I am waking up my wife.....

problem is....if im wearing headphones, how am I going to be able to use the headset? some games I have played only play the voices through the headset.....is there a way to set it so it always comes out of the speakers?

heres what I'm thinking.....wear the headphones on my head to listen to the game, and simply have the headset around my nec so I can use my mic

anyone had troubles or anything with this type of situation?

well the way I do it is, I have a pair of head phones that are not attatched to each other only by a coord, so I take one ear of the head phone and put it in one ear, then put my head set on the other ear.

if that makes sense lol.

ok so just to clarify....I can get the voice chat audio to come through my speakers correct? Basically...im playing in our bedroom and so the TV is only about 6 feet away and I have a nice pair of bose headphones that have a looong ass cord on them so they will work fine.....

so heres what im thinking........wearing the headphones, and when I want to chat on xbl....I can just put the xbox headset around my neck....that way, the mic will be there for me to speak into....and I can still hear the other people talking through my speakers which are then connected to my headphones.....

Hello,

I bought these X3 Turtle Beach wireless headphones so I can game at night and not wake up my folks as I spend my free time blasting away on Xbox Live. I for some reason cannot figure out how to have the game audio and voice chat to come directly to the headphones only and NOT through the TV speakers as well. As of right now the Chat and game audio are coming through my headphones which is nice but the game audio is also coming through my TV speakers but not the chat. I would like to have nothing coming through the TV speakers and have the game audio and chat only come through the headset. Can you give me the steps to do this? I know it must be a setting on the Xbox dashboard. I know how to get the chat to come through the headset but the game audio is still coming out of the TV and the headset. I go Personal Settings and then I select Voice and it gives me the options to have the voice chat come through either: the Headset, TV speakers only, or both. I have the Voice chat coming through the headset so I don't hear it coming through the TV which is nice but I still can hear the game audio coming through the TV speakers. Right now I have the RCA plugs from the Xbox coming into the female RCA jacks which are connected to the front of my TV where I have a set of RCA ports. Not sure if this is the problem. Do you have any suggestions?

X3 Turtle Beach Wireless Headphones Product # TBS-2065

ok so just to clarify....I can get the voice chat audio to come through my speakers correct? Basically...im playing in our bedroom and so the TV is only about 6 feet away and I have a nice pair of bose headphones that have a looong ass cord on them so they will work fine.....

so heres what im thinking........wearing the headphones, and when I want to chat on xbl....I can just put the xbox headset around my neck....that way, the mic will be there for me to speak into....and I can still hear the other people talking through my speakers which are then connected to my headphones.....

NOD_Grindking

That will indeed work my friend If my memory serves me correct the way to swap the chat from going through the speakers, the headset or both is under personnel settings on the 360 guide then under audio/voice i think thats it not to sure. lol hope that helps! =]

This could help http://www.turtlebeach.com/products/efx3/home.aspx.MEATSIM001

Yep. I actually have those. For 100USD, they're excellent. Full cup headphones, but lightweight. It's the next best thing to active noice reduction. Good stereo sound with bass boost. Xbox Live headset is built into it. What's really great is that you can control voice and game volumes separately. Even better is that it's wireless.