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Are you a huge fan of My Time at Portia and its follow-up My Time at Sandrock? Then you're going to love the new custom "My Time at Sandrock" edition of the EKSA E1000 RGB Gaming Headset. Really good 7.1 surround sound audio, solid audio pickup from its adjustable cardioid microphone, cool RGB lights and some special goodies themed to My Time at Sandrock from Pathea Games. Even better, it's entirely affordable, either as a gift from a pal or to buy yourself. Tech expert and gamer fan Dave Taylor checks out the E1000 and finds lots to like with this headset that's compatible with PC/Mac/Playstation...
Check it out at: https://www.eksa.net/products/e1000-my-time-at-sandrock-edition-rgb-usb-gaming-headset
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Excited about my time at Sandrock and need a new headset, this is your solution
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I want to talk about my time at Sandrock
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It's this upcoming game. It's a follow-on to my time at Portia. People are super excited about it
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It is a post-apocalypse simulation RPG, and there's an early access version already on Steam that people are really enjoying, but the whole game is officially releasing
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in 2023 for Steam, four computers, and for gaming platforms. People really like this game. Now
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they have all sorts of cool stuff going on in the game, but sometimes that's not enough. Sometimes
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you want more. Enter this. This is the Exa E-1000 My Time at Sandrock's Special Edition
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RGB gaming headset. And I thought, well, hmm, what's so special edition about it
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And obviously the packaging is fantastic. This is very much the visual identity of the game
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Obviously, they have licensed it and everything. But let's unbox this thing and see what's actually inside
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So I need to do this preferably without hurting myself. And my unboxing tool is not necessarily something you should give to your six-year-old
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You probably don't have a six-year-old with knives. So let's see. What's in the box
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There is, of course, the headphones. So I'm going to just put the box aside
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So there are the headphones. And there's a user guide and manual, but much more interesting, is my time at Sandrock
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There is this gift envelope with stuff inside. So I'm going to hold off on looking at that till the very very important
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very end because we want to check out the headphones and then we'll come back and see what's in
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the envelope should be pretty interesting now this box is kind of taken up a lot of space so
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I think what I'm going to go ahead and do with it is I'm going to go ahead and put it aside so
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let's see these headphones so that e1,000s are super popular headphones from exa and they make a lot
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of gaming headphones and headsets and what's really nice about these is they're actually entirely
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affordable. Even this special edition is still very affordable. When we get to the price, you're
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going to be like oh that all That pretty sweet So here we have them They are a full gaming headset with microphone and the microphone is as you can see highly adjustable And then on the wire it this big heavy braided cable
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And then there's a control on the wire that gives you a mute button, super easy, and a volume control
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Also really helpful. And then on the end of it, there is no 3.5 millimeter
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This is a USBA, the rectangle. This is a USBA connector, and the advantage of that is it actually gives you 7.1 audio
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So this is super important for gaming. You want a spatial sense of what's going on around you
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so that if someone's sneaking up behind you, the game will give you that directional info
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but your headset needs to be able to do that too, and this is exactly what this does
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Now, it is an immersive 70s,000, not one environment, which is what I was just saying
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And they're powered by 50mm neodymium drivers, and it's plug and play
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So you just plug this thing in and you're ready to rock and roll. The microphone is a cardioid pickup
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So if I put them on, then it's something where it will pick up mostly from the direction of my mouth
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rather than the full environment around me, which makes a huge difference in terms of actually
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picking up background noise. You don't want that. It's adjustable 120 degrees
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I'm not sure how your head would be shaped that you would need it at these other angles
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But you can also get it out of the way if you have a tendency to do that spitting thing
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kind of yucky. But a lot of people, that's how they pronounce certain syllables
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So you can move your microphone a little out of that way. So it gets a little bit less annoying to everyone else
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Volume adjust and such are on the line. I already pointed that out. Obviously, it comes with this nice little traveling bag
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which is entirely functional for what it is. And let's see, the ear pads are breathable
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It is adjustable. But what we really want to do is we want to plug it in
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because we want to see the lights, right? So I happen to have a brand new Lenovo Yoga here
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So we're going to plug in. This is a Windows computer. So I'm going to plug in the headphones
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They have not actually sacrificed USBA at the all. of USBC like too many companies have done
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So plugged in and now you can see that cool lighting effect
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So this is very simple, there's no adjustments, you can't turn the lighting off
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but it pretty mellow and you can see it sort of circles around in this rainbow pattern So I gonna go ahead and put these on Notice I adjusted the headphones And now I have the microphone
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So you can adjust it just so. And the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to give you an audio sample
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Let's see. Let's see USB device. That must be this guy. So now what you're hearing is the audio pickup
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from the microphone on the E-1000 headphones. So you can hear it's a really nice, bright sound
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and something that everyone else that's in the middle of playing my time at Sandrock with you
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will definitely appreciate as really anyone who's working with you in any context
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whether you're on a Zoom call or whether you're just chatting with your friends in a different game
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So really nice sound and let's just go ahead and check that music
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button so and I've unmuted and so the mute button works on that control super
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easy to work with let me pause this recording and now while I have it hooked up I
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also I'm gonna just trick listen to some music real quick and obviously you can't
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hear this but I'm listening to the kind of music you'd listen to if you were in the post-apocalypse and you had found some CD or something in the
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desert sands, right? So sort of that my time at sandrock theme. And I'm using this to adjust the
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volume and it's a very pleasant sound actually. I would say that it is really almost a little
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base heavy and that's I think that 7.1 system coming into play
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because that's like a surround sound system you'd have for a TV in your headphones
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How cool is that? So it's a big bass forward sort of sound, which is exactly what you want for a game
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So these are going to be really fun for a game. For regular music, if you wanted to use these to listen to Spotify or Pandora or something like that
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you might want to use the EQ to bring up the mid-range and the highs a little bit
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But it does have a nice presence to it and a good sound stage. I mean, you know, these are budget headphones designed for gaming and from that perspective
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They really are doing a nice job of giving you all the sound that you really want at that lower end because that kind of where all the game designers have a lot of fun With the low rumbles of things that are over the horizon and all sorts of stuff So definitely nice sound And again I really like the light up
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I like the light patterns. This is very low key, very easy to work with
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We plugged it in. It didn't need any special drivers. Really straightforward to work with
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So all of that is delightful, right? But I know what you really want
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You want to find out what's in the envelope. So let's crack open our My Time at Sand Rock envelope and see what's in here
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All right. Well, let's see. There are postcards. There are wanted postcards for four of presumably the bad guys in the game
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So there you have it. And let's see. There should be one more thing in the envelope
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Aha. There is also this pretty cool. This is a commemorative ticket for my time at Sandrock too
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So the commemorative ticket is pretty neat. The postcards are definitely something you're going to go ahead and tape to your wall behind your computer monitor
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And I know you're really into my time at Portia and you're super excited about my time at Sandrock and as you should be
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It's a really fun game. It looks really cool. And that's everything
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So, you get these great gamer headset, you get all these cool wanted cards, you get the commemorative ticket, all of this for
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Awesome. All right, this is the Exa E 1000 My Time at Sand Rock Special Edition
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RGB Gaming headset, and it is 3299 at Exa.net, and you'll also want to check it out at Amazon.com
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It might even be less expensive. Either way, this is a great addition to your My Time at Sand Rock setup
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and of course these, you probably can't get anywhere else, so you probably would have to get the headset just to get these
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possibly worth it right there. So that's all I got. I'm going to go back to my Steam Early Access game
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So I'll get you in my next video
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