They make it harder for you to hear your own voice and can cause you to sound nasal and talk louder than necessary. When you turn it on, it will play the sound of your own voice through the headphones, but with no delay, which can be extremely useful if you're someone who finds it annoying to chat while wearing closed-back headphones. "Mic Sidetone" is, in essence, a microphone-monitoring feature. We also have the "Mic Sidetone" and the "Mic Volume" sliders. It's there so you can check on how you sound-don't use it for anything else. Here, you can turn on "Live Mic Preview", an option that will play the sound picked up by the microphone through the headphones with about a 0.5 second delay. It crushes the variance between quieter and louder parts of whatever is playing, but that's not something you should aim for as music producers and game developers go to great lengths to make their products sound as dynamic and lively as possible. It is yet another setting you should keep turned off as it does exactly what it says-it compresses the dynamics of the audio. The last sound setting is called Dynamic Range Compression. If you hear distortion, you went too far. I suggest you stick with the Flat profile or, in case you feel you need a bit more bass, manually adjust the 64 and 180 Hz sliders. This can be useful if you want to articulate someone's voice, but under no circumstances did I have trouble understanding someone or hearing the vocals in the music I was listening to. Keep away from the Voice preset, though, as it completely kills the bass and emphasizes the mid and high range. Simply play your favorite music, play with the equalizer, and see what you like. I can't tell you which one to pick as those I prefer won't necessarily be to your liking. If you're unsure of what you're doing, you can try out some of the built-in presets: Flat, Performance, Immersion, Entertainment, Music, and Voice. There are six frequency bands to fiddle with: 64 Hz, 180 Hz, 500 Hz, 1.4 kHz, 3.9 kHz, and 11 kHz. This is pretty nice, especially if you plan to play with the equalizer, as you'll be able to play your songs and hear the effect of the changes right away.Īs far as sound settings go, we first have the general system-wide equalizer where you'll be able to tune the way the headset sounds.
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If you turn the "Live Preview" switch at the bottom of the window to "On", everything you do in the driver will be applied to the headset right away without having to press "Save". The user interface is easy on the eyes, very responsive, and simple to use.