Xbox 360 Wireless Microphone

The wireless 360 LIPS microhpone mics are extremely well made. Alot fancier then the standard USB microphones used in Guitar Hero, Rock Band or Karaoke Revolution games. They sound better as well. Less distortion then the USB mics. The mics are comfortable and have flashing lights to give them a little bit of flare. Thats personal taste. But I thought it was nice.

So why are these mics good and not great...well they have flaws. The system of turning the mic on and off is honestly rediculous and confusing. The system of connecting your mic with the xbox 360 is equally rediculous and confusing. They use LED light indicators to show when a mic is on or off, when the batteries are running low. Things of that nature. But I'll be darned if I could totally figure it out. They did it this way to avoid putting buttons on the Mic. I can understand that...but it makes it a royal pain to get it up and started.

The next flaw is of course game...Read more

First thing's first: On 9/25/2009, an update was released to enable functionality of this microphone with all Rock Band games (thus, previous reviews mentioning that issue are now moot). I can confirm that the mic now does "work" with all Rock Band games.

However, the functionality of this microphone is utterly horrid (with the Rock Band games). In short: there is a very noticeable lag when singing into the microphone. The lag causes you to hear an echo when singing in game and causes your timing and pitch to go out of whack - making it near impossible to play songs on harder skill levels. In order to confirm that there was definitely an un-fixable issue with the wireless microphone, I did a little test and played a specific song on both the stock/corded and wireless microphones (both multiple times). Each time, I got double (sometimes triple) the score with the stock/corded microphone. It appears that the lag introduced by the wireless microphone is throwing off...Read more

I actually love this Mic and if it weren't for some key features I would of returned since it currently has not been patched to work in Rock Band 1 or 2. Hopefully by the time the Beatles Rock Band comes out this will be working.

Pros:

Battery Life lasted about 3 weeks and has a sleep mode when not being used.
Material is nice to feel and it's pretty durable.
Wireless works fine and it's range is a lot more then I ever needed.
Looks great with the lights but they only really come into play with the game "Lips" by Microsoft.
A lot better then the standard Mics that ship with most Rhythm games.
Has a motion sensor in it which some games take advantage of.

Cons:

A little tricky to sync at first but after that I never had a problem.
Does not work with Rock Band yet. (apparently this shouldn't be an issue by mid-late September.)
The top of the microphone twists off so you can put in the...Read more