Need a sound expert.

(Hundopercent) #1

I’m hoping to get some assistance from the community and SD if possible.

I’m currently using an ASUS Xonar Xense and was using it with the PC350’s it came with. I’ve switched off the 350s and I am now using Sennheiser HD 598s which are an incredible set of cans.

The problem I am having is explosions are now excruciatingly loud, and I use excruciating in it’s literal sense. My ears hurt sometimes from how loud they are and it makes hearing any other sound impossible. I have tweaked my EQ to lower bass and focus more on footsteps but it doesn’t matter. Explosions drown out everything. What I have done to counter this is enabled SVN on my audio control panel which levels out all the sound so they are on the same relative level. The downside with this is ambient sounds are very loud (I turn them off with the console), footsteps are also loud but so loud that I have a hard time figuring out how close/far they are and sometimes it sounds like people are walking right on top of me but they are actually a room or 2 over. The upside is explosions have been toned down considerably.

Does anyone else have this issue, know of a way to reduce the sound of explosions, while still keeping footsteps at a good level, and/or have a better way of configuring my sound?

Here is my current config:

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(Hundopercent) #2

After some testing, it appears with SVN on or off the explosions are extremely loud. Here is the peak of an airstrike vs gunfire.


(iwound) #3

airstrike is very loud for me through amp. i mean really loud. so maybe its not your cans.

(Mustang) #4

Well apparently separate in-game sound sliders for all the different aspects of sounds are planned, really looking forward to seeing these.

(Hundopercent) #5

That would be nice.

Does anyone else with an amp (either separate or built into your soundcard) have issues with the Air Strike being unbearably loud?

(Hundopercent) #6

Is there any way we can reduce the sound of the airstrike by like 30% it’s crazy loud and I have to play with almost no footsteps in order to spare my ears.

(Nail) #7

it’s startling on my viewsonic in monitor spkrs, but not overly loud. Have you tried the Smart Volume Normalizer, it could help. Otherwise a compressor or brick wall limiter would be what I’d suggest

(Hundopercent) #8

It’s still very loud with SVN on. What also happens is footsteps sound very close to me when they’re far away along with gun fire etc. It changes a lot of things but doesn’t reduce the AS sound enough.

(Nail) #9

was worried about that, normalizers usually push, you could try with the equalizer but it might take too much messin to be worth it.

you might be able to use an 3rd party audio program to act as final signal process, in which case just need a couple plugins. I’ll try get on my audio comp tomorrow

(Hundopercent) #10

[QUOTE=Nail;455981]was worried about that, normalizers usually push, you could try with the equalizer but it might take too much messin to be worth it.

you might be able to use an 3rd party audio program to act as final signal process, in which case just need a couple plugins. I’ll try get on my audio comp tomorrow[/QUOTE]

Thanks nail!

(Nail) #11

lol, surprised that last post went through, the site went down at exact time