According to the Report on the Development of China's E-sports Industry in 2018 released by Tencent Penguin Zhiku, the size of China's E-sports market exceeded 5 billion yuan in 2017, which will grow to 8.48 billion yuan in 2018, with a growth rate of more than 65%. While the scale of the E-sports market continues to expand, more and more manufacturers are entering this field, and EDIFIER rambler is one of them.

In the second half of 2018, EDIFIER Walker launched the G4 Pro game headset, which is equipped with a highly integrated CM6533X1 USB sound card chip, supports 96KHz/24bits high resolution, supports virtual 7.1 surround sound effect, novel variable sound mode, and is also equipped with a telescopic microphone and RGB light effect. In terms of parameters, G4 Pro is a powerful game headset. How about its performance in specific use?

appearance

G4 Pro has two different colors, pink and black gold. This time, the author got the black gold version. In terms of appearance, G4 Pro generally maintains the design style of G4, and adopts the classic design of large earmuffs and telescopic head beam.

The G4 Pro is mostly made of non-metallic materials in its overall design. It weighs less than 370g and is light and comfortable to wear. The earmuffs are made of protein leather earmuffs and memory sponges, which are soft and fit to the ears and can also isolate some external noise.

G4 Pro supports RGB color adjustment of 16 million colors. The left and right earmuffs are equipped with a circle of RGB lights respectively. Users can adjust the light color and mode of the earmuffs through the driver software.

The G4 Pro uses a 40mm Ru iron boron speaker unit, and an additional "vibration unit" is added to the speaker unit. Users can turn on "vibration" through the remote control. After turning on the earphone, the bass effect will be greatly enhanced, and there will be an immersive feeling in the game.

The omnidirectional microphone is the standard configuration of high-end game earphones. The G4 Pro is also equipped with a 360 ° bending omnidirectional microphone that supports free expansion.

In terms of remote control, in addition to the common earphone switch, volume adjustment wheel and microphone switch, G4 Pro has an additional "vibration switch", which can be used with its vibration unit to greatly enhance the bass effect of the earphone after being turned on.

In terms of interface, G4 Pro adopts USB interface, which supports plug and play.

It is worth mentioning that G4 Pro is configured with sound changing mode, which provides four sound effects: male voice, female voice, cartoon and monster. The sound changing mode does not require additional software, but can change the sound through its own drive, providing more fun for the game experience.

Drive settings

Although G4 Pro supports plug and play game earphones, for professional game earphones, the driver contains some important functional settings, so you must download the corresponding official driver before using.

G4 Pro has powerful driving functions. It can not only adjust the equalizer, RGB light adjustment, sound converter adjustment, microphone channel adjustment of headphones, but also support a variety of virtual sound effects adjustment, including virtual 7.1 surround sound adjustment.

The so-called virtual 7.1 surround sound is actually through multi-channel signal processing. In the case of only left and right channels, the sound frequency, volume, direction, etc. are adjusted to simulate the 7.1 channel effect in the three-dimensional sense of space, so that the user has a strong sense of spatial positioning and image in the sense of hearing.

In the G4 Pro drive, we can carefully adjust the virtual 7.1 channel effect.

G4 Pro adopts CM6533X1 highly integrated USB game audio chip, which is a customized audio chip for game earphones. Its feature is that it not only has a high resolution of 96KHz/24bits, but also supports 5-band hardware digital equalizer. Its three frequencies can be adjusted through the equalizer, and it supports xear surround sound and xear noise reduction technology. From the perspective of hardware and software configuration, the G4 Pro with CM6533X1+40mm Ru Iron Boron large drive unit+vibration unit+virtual 7.1 surround sound technology can theoretically meet the pursuit of most game players for game sound effects. What about its actual performance?

Games: Watch the Pioneer, Dark Soul 3

Speaking of game earphones, the first thing you think of is that FPS games have high requirements for game sound effects. Here we use the classic Watchman to test the actual performance of the G4 Pro. During the test, we open the 7.1 virtual surround sound mode throughout.

FPS games have high requirements for the sense of spatial positioning of earphones. The direction of the enemy's footsteps, the size of the gunshot and the direction of the judgment are extremely important in the game. A little carelessness may be killed by hidden enemies. In the actual game, the performance of the G4 Pro basically meets our expectations. Its intermediate frequency is very sharp, the low frequency is very thick, and the analysis of small sounds is very sufficient. Even small gunshots are very clear, and the sound of big explosions can also hear a sense of distance. The G4 Pro sound has a very strong sense of connection. With the support of virtual 7.1 channels, there is basically no problem with the spatial orientation of the sound, and the sense of direction of the sound is very clear. The sound of gunfire, explosion, footsteps and other different sounds have obvious hierarchical division, which is mainly due to its high resolution. When the body vibration mode is turned on, the bass effect is more shocking. The feeling of artillery bombardment can really make people feel the magnified sense of tension and stimulation, which is different from the characteristics of ordinary game earphones.

The biggest difference between game earphones and ordinary music is that their mid-frequency and low-frequency are more prominent, because in the game, footsteps, voices, and gunshots are basically mid-frequency, while blasting and vibration are low-frequency. Similarly, we also see the feature of medium and low frequency highlighting on G4 Pro. We can clearly feel that G4 Pro has significantly optimized the sound effect of the game.

In addition, the G4 Pro omnidirectional microphone can pick up sound 360 °, and is also equipped with a telescopic+360 ° design, which allows you to set the position of the microphone at will. In use, the microphone is rarely broken, the voice color is clear and the degree of reduction is high. With the magic sound converter in the drive, there are many ways to play.

In another RPG single player game, Dark Soul 3, the G4 Pro also has certain rendering in terms of environmental sound, percussion sound, etc. It can be seen that it has significantly enhanced the sound effect of the game, especially in terms of monster footsteps, attack sound, etc., which are obviously different from ordinary earphones.

Movies, music

G4 Pro is a typical high-sensitivity and low impedance game headset. Its impedance is only 24 Ω, and its sensitivity is 106dB. Even if you use a computer without an independent sound card, you can push it. As G4 Pro is a game headset, its medium and low frequencies will be more prominent, especially in the optimization of game sound effects, while in the normal movie and music effects, its sound effect optimization is not so obvious, so you don't need to worry about that "this specially tuned sound for games" will affect daily use.

In terms of listening to music, G4 Pro is a male oriented and popular earphone. The male voice is prominent, with a sense of vicissitudes, strong sense of connection and high density. In terms of low frequency, due to the existence of vibration unit, its low frequency has strong explosive force, sufficient potential energy and large amount, which is consistent with its performance in low-frequency sound effects of games. Although G4 Pro is not a main music headset, its high resolution and vibration unit can also make it perform well in pop music, which is enough for a game headset.

Because game earphones focus on the instantaneous explosion and diffusion of sound effects, if they are used to watch some action movies and science fiction movies, their rendering power of sound can be fully displayed. In addition, their high resolution and clear sound space positioning will give the audience a strong sense of presence.

summary

As a game headset, G4 Pro has excellent hardware and software configuration, and its actual performance also meets our expectations. The sound has a strong sense of spatial positioning and high analytical power. Specifically, in the game, it can better assist players to listen and identify, so that players can play better. However, its aural characteristics do not make it a game headset "born only for games". If it is used as a regular music listening device, its taste and trend also conform to the public's aural sense.

Many game earphones tend to deteriorate in daily use due to the need to give consideration to game sound effects, but this does not happen on the Pacer G4 Pro. It gives good consideration to the balance between game sound effects and daily use, and its overall performance is better than that of ordinary game earphones.

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