I've replaced my Pulse Elite with the Sony Gold headset. I'm a bit disappointed. As I feared, adjusting volume and sound/chat via buttons instead of sliders sucks.
And it's not fine-grained enough: With my Elites, I used to turn the game audio down to the lowest volume I could still hear, so I could hear the voice chat clearly but still notice oracles, explosions and so on. With the Gold headset, the game audio is still too loud on the second-to-lowest sound/chat setting.
Huh? You were doing fine.
I'm down.
Can't remember your PSN ID