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How To Use ANY Bluetooth Headset With Your Playstation 3 PS3

December 09, 2006 at 02:02 AM in Video Games

So you've got your Playstation 3, a copy of Resistance: Fall Of Man and you're all setup to go multiplayer online. The only thing missing is a wireless headset to chat with your team right? The Playstation 3 uses Bluetooth for its wireless controllers which got me to thinking...what about a Bluetooth headset? Turns out you can pair ANY Bluetooth Headset with your PS3 for voice chat, here's how.

Turn on your Playstation 3, and from the main menu go to Settings - Accessory Settings - Register Bluetooth Device

You will be presented with two options:

Register BD Remote Control
Register Headset/Microphone/Headphones

Select Register Headset... and put your Bluetooth headset into pairing mode. On your PS3 select Start Scanning

Select your device and enter your pairing code. In most cases for audio devices the default pairing code is "0000"

Now on your PS3, go to Audio Device Settings and change your "Input Device" and "Output Device" to your Bluetooth headset name. Try speaking and watch your "Mic Level" move!

While playing Resistance: Fall Of Man you can voice chat with other players by pressing and holding down L3. I use the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Bluetooth Stereo Headset with my phone, for Bluetooth audio on my laptop, and now for voice chat on my PS3. The Plantronics 590 allows for up to eight device pairings and it works flawlessly with the PS3 - I was even able seamlessly answer an incoming cell phone call and then switch back to PS3 voice chat. :)While playing Resistance I only came across one other person using a Bluetooth headset for voice chat, and he so I wanted to get the word out.

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Reader Comments

max ebanks @ April 24, 2007 01:06 AM

thanx man it really worked.



mlg @ December 21, 2007 04:51 PM

does this headset allow you to hear all of the sound effects in the background while you are chatting with your team? If its not default to do that how do you change your settings for it?



enomish @ January 22, 2008 05:19 AM

my jabra620s bluetooth headset works perfectly with my samsung sgh-u600 cellphone but its untraceable to my ps3 40gb system any suggestions ???( i follow all the steps correctly but my system scan takes hours without finding any device/ im using 2.10 firmware)



MG_SRIK @ February 20, 2008 12:24 AM

I purchased the Pulser 590 like the article says but for some reason cant get any sound out of the speakers when playing COD4 ... the mic is working just no sound..... and yes I set both input and output to be the headset. Any feedback?



rgoff31 @ February 21, 2008 04:22 PM

Wikipedia has a list of compatible headsets
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_headsets_compatible_with_PlayStation_3



james @ February 22, 2008 05:13 PM

it will never pick up my bluetooth headset when i try to programme it in. Why is this? Will i have to buy a different one?



alex @ June 7, 2008 05:04 AM

I bought a headset and i have it connected and everything but when i talk into it nothing happens. and i can't hear anything through it. can you tell me what's wrong with it?



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