Direct Monitoring

[rozach27]

So I've been racking my brain on this one. I am a PC gamer but all my friends still have Xbox, so I use the built in Xbox chat that Windows provides.

Before I set up my Shure SM7B, I was simply using my Turtle Beach wireless USB headset with OBS and Xbox chat. Now that I've set up my new external mic (Shure), I don't have any monitoring in the chat. I would like to hear myself, so I went to OBS and tried the direct monitoring, but it obviously has a ton of latency and is no good.

To get around this I know I can use the direct monitoring on my USB interface that my Shure plugs into, but I do like my wireless headset. My question is - do streamers that wear wireless headsets not have direct monitoring? Or is there a software or hardware that I'm missing? Is my approach wrong?

 

[FerretBomb]

do streamers that wear wireless headsets not have direct monitoring?

Pretty much. It's one of the reasons that many USB mics offer on-device audio monitoring ports, and wireless headsets will play back the mic audio on the headset itself. Digitization and playback is going to have some delay, and usually enough to trigger the 'speechjammer' effect.
In the pro-audio world for singers and the like, there are dedicated low-latency belt-packs and IEMs. But these aren't cheap, and do not work with consumer-grade wireless headphones.