Settin' it up
The microphone, which comes as a separate attachment, looks rather flimsy on first examination. Though you might initially worry that it will snap in two quite easily, it's robust and flexible, allowing you to twist and bend it quite rigorously into position.It also snaps sturdily into the jack port on the base of the left ear cup and stays put even when you're applying a fair deal of pressure to twist it into shape. The silver coating on one small section of the mic also complements the silver TRITTON branding on the ear cups well.
Like many third-party wired headsets for Xbox 360, the Detonator comes with extra equipment that you need to set-up before you get started.
If you're used to using a wireless headset, then you'll probably be surprised at the amount of fiddling around you have to do as the Detonator isn't a simple plug-and-play device – not when using it with Xbox 360, anyway.
Convoluted setup
With the headset and mic, you get an in-line controller, analog audio adapter and headset connector cable. To set things up we had to plug the analog audio adapter into the back of the Xbox 360 and clip the red-and-white male connectors at the end of the adaptor into the red-and-white female connectors trailing from the in-line controller.
The USB lead plugs into the console and the wire branches out from the red-and-white audio connectors with a male connector that plugs into the inline controller. Phew, got all that? We then had to plug the 3.5mm jack from the headset into the inline controller.
Finally, you plug the headset connector cable into the Xbox 360 gamepad and plug the opposite end into the remaining slot on the inline controller. As we said, there are a lot of wires and a bit of messing around before you get to try out the headset.
Thankfully, the manual does display the set-up procedure clearly and once you do get things up and running it's certainly worth the effort. However, if you're not a fan of trailing wires you may want to wait to get your hands on TRITTON's wireless Xbox 360 headset – the Devastator, coming out later this year.
