Headsets: What headsets to use noisy environments

By jason.hao
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    Question:

    As you know we still working on the comms level balancing with loud concert music as background.Please let us know once you found out the best way tuning for the coms signal path.

    The customer's problem was that the array speakers on site were too loud. Both our HXII-BP and FSII-BP were affected, and the CC-300 headsets absorbed the noise on site, making it impossible for users to hear other people.

     

    Solution:

    There are many headsets types on the market that are designed to work in noisy and loud environments. Due to the mechanical properties of the microphone element and their enclosures providing extra noise rejection..

    Please read this clear-com manual https://clearcom.com/DownloadCenter/technicaldocs/Choosing_the_Right_Wired_Headset_for_Intercom_(2022-03).pdf

    Some well known brands customers have used in the past are

    • David Clark

    • Bose

    • Sennheiser

    • Beyer Dynamic DT 790 (double ear) or Sennheiser HMD 280 (double ear) or HMD 281 (single ear) headsets

    • 3M™ PELTOR™ CH-3 Headsets (re-termination or cable adapters required to XLR4; helmet P3E adapters for safety helmet use)

     

    We usually then advise to use double muffed over the ear headsets in noisy areas

    If using a single ear headset then using a 3M foam plug into the open ear helps

    On all FreeSpeak and Helixnet beltpacks, check the status of the limiter. As this is enabled by default, try turning the limiter off and increasing the master volume at the beltpack and not the crosspoint level (standard rotary operation on FSII), and reducing the gain elsewhere if clipping.

     

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