Is my headset dead?

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i'm assuming it is.

it's a turtle beach x12, been through one headset, only because I dropped and broke the first one I had. This one however, has never been misplaced or dropped. This one I've had for a year.

They're kinda infamous and known to break, but this was so sudden. Before, the mic and audio was crystal clear at any level. I was playing my game, and next thing I know out of nowhere it starts doing this:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1nUT82Gvoh3


I've heard static from my desktop in the headset for quite awhile now, wasn't noticeable or as severe as this until now.

I can hear the audio fine, but when I turn it up to a certain point the bass starts looping itself until I turn it down again. And I just realized the mic was completely trashed, sounds like a cyborg.

If it is broke, thankfully my wallet isn't. I play an unhealthy amount of video games.. so if it is broke, what would you guys recommend on the headphone side?

(i'll be buying a blue yeti as a microphone in like 2 months so, don't really need a headset with a mic.)

nothing too pricey.

if there's a fix for this then that'd be better but it sounds really beat up internally.

 
Are you able to test with a different headset? The chopping in that voice recording has me leaning more towards the sound chip on the motherboard dying or maybe a dying fan is creating a frequency that's screwing with the sound chip.
 


I don't have another headset/mic, but my apple earbuds work perfectly fine without static if that means anything.

then again, the earbuds don't require a usb to plugin like my headset does. So the static, if there is any, could be coming from that.