Genesis-1 is a low profile communications headset, designed to allow use without head protection, or in conjunction with most types of protective headgear, such as public order, ballistic, industrial and similar helmet types. In its standard form, it provides a single high performance earpiece transducer for efficiency, wide dynamic range and high fidelity received audio, combined with 2 microphone options; an omni-directional transducer fitted to a short boom, for low to medium noise applications and a pressure gradient version mounted to an extended boom, for use in high ambient noise conditions.