Yamaha ZG01 Game Audio Mixer

About The Yamaha ZG01 Game Audio Mixer

The ZG01 is a powerful gaming audio interface/mixer that allows you to independently tailor game audio, your microphone, and your party chat participants to your own playback environment, while simultaneously providing the ideal audio signal to both your chat partners and streaming audience.

The ZG01 also facilitates the connection of a high-performance microphone via XLR and the configuration of various effects essential to a professional audio presentation, including compressors, EQ and limiters. The ZG01 hardware features a streamlined control layout backed up by a variety of immersive DSP effects, powerful surround sound processing and down conversion to ensure an immersive experience via your headphones and the streaming audience alike.

Simple, Intuitive Control That's Always Within Reach: The ZG01's physical controls designed for gaming, voice chat, as well as for streaming, provide simple and intuitive management of all your audio signals. These simple and easy to reach controls remove the need of navigating to software-based controls and 3rd party chat apps and detracting from your overall gaming experience or the experience of your live stream audience.

ZG Surround: Immersive 2-Channel Audio For You and Your Audience: Yamaha's new proprietary "ViReal" technologies for headphones has been further optimised for gaming to maximise your stereo headphones' 3D sound quality. Furthermore, this immersive 2-channel sound is also broadcast out to your audience when streaming, allowing them to also feel the action, even if they're only using a standard pair of headphones.

Focus Mode/EQ: Focus On the Sound Around You, Not the Sound You're Making: Focus Mode/EQ can suppress the sound of your own character's voice, or emphasise environmental sounds from the game audio. The settings can be configured to suit a variety of game titles, scenes, and playing styles. For example, you can choose to focus on the sound of your opponent's footsteps or reduce the amount of noise you can hear from your own character.

3D Chat Space: Prevent Chat Being a Distraction, While Still Keeping it Present: 3D Chat Space places the other party's voice in a virtual 3D-space and allows you to select the physical location in your headphones and the games sound field that you hear your party chat audio coming from. This assists in avoiding overlap between voice chat and game audio, and helps to distinguish what is in game and what is part of your chat. This also ensures that the party chat does not distract from the game itself.

Practical, Versatile Connectivity for Gamers: HDMI port: The 2-in/1-out HDMI ports allow direct connection to consumer game consoles, and can also function as a 2 input HDMI switcher and HDMI conversion adapter with audio extraction. (Audio out: 2ch 24-bit/48kHz fixed, Video signal: Pass-through)

Flexible Audio Input and Output: The audio I/O jack provides flexibility for connecting the microphone, headphones, headset, and desktop speakers of your choice.

Our Take

The Yamaha ZG01 Game Audio Mixer redefines gaming audio immersion with its innovative design and robust features. Engineered specifically for gamers, this compact yet powerful mixer offers seamless integration with consoles and PCs, allowing users to fine-tune audio levels, enhance spatial awareness, and customize their gaming experience like never before. With intuitive controls and advanced audio processing capabilities, the ZG01 empowers gamers to create the perfect balance between in-game effects, chat communication, and background music, elevating every gaming session to new heights of audio excellence. Whether you're competing in esports tournaments or embarking on epic adventures, the Yamaha ZG01 ensures that every sound is crystal clear, immersive, and precisely tailored to your preferences, delivering a truly immersive gaming audio experience.