Abstract: A gaming headset system for use in a game event. A headset (HS) has a mouth microphone (MM), and a headphone with over-the-car car-cups (EC) each having inside a loudspeaker transducer (LT) and a feed-back microphone (FB). A feed-forward microphone (FF) is placed on an exterior part of the car-cups (EC). An ambient noise and speech suppression system (ANSS) serves to attenuate ambient noise and suppress intelligibility of ambient speech sound reaching the gamer (GM) in response to input signals indicative of sound captured by one or more of: 1) the mouth microphone (MM). 2) the feed-forward microphones (FF), 3) the feed-back microphones (FB), and 4) one or more sources (GSP_I. AUDM) located external to the car-cups (EC).