Ozone Blast Ocelote Gaming Headset Review

Performance

This is without a doubt a headset designed purely for gaming, so that’s exactly where I started. A few team games on Counter Strike, Battlefield 4, League of Legends and whatever else I took my fancy. After a few hours of gaming, several strong points and weaknesses started to surface about the Blast headset; let’s start with what I didn’t like about the headset. A very minor issue with the shirt clip on the in-line controller was something I noticed quite quickly. The clip doesn’t have a strong enough spring and can quite easily come off of your clothes, which is further hampered by the shape of the in-line controller. holding it in one hand and pushing the clip to open it makes the whole thing slip out of your hand; that’s poor ergonomics, but hardly a deal breaker. Another issue with the in-line controller is that the mute button blinks, all of the time, for absolutely no reason. If you’re gaming in a dark room and have something reflective on your desk, it’ll bug the heck out of you.

Performance wise, the Blast delivers the goods. This headset sounds great in gaming, giving you thumping bass and crystal-clear treble that gives you a nice mixture of the “wow” sound effects, helping you get engrossed in yourthe games atmosphere, while delivering all the details you need to pick out the footsteps of your enemies. The virtual surround features work pretty well too, you certainly get a bigger sense of scale in the audio and the advantage of being able to hear where your enemies are coming from beyond the standard left and right.

The microphone is very clear, so your teammates will have no issue in hearing you. Unfortunately and more surprisingly, this headset has no dedicated volume control for chat and game audio on the in-line controller, so team voices come booming through the headset and sound a little bass heavy. If your game or chat client has a separate audio volume control, you’ll want to use it; I found setting a macro on my keyboard to control the chat volume worked well, but I’d have still liked this feature built-in to the headset.

Music really doesn’t work well on this headset, as a lot of the mid tones sound a bit off. There’s certainly a lot of EQ going on here which can be tweaked quite a bit in the software, but it certainly benefits gaming the most and that’s hardly surprising given the headsets target audience. That’s not to say you wouldn’t find a setting that was best suited to your own preference.