
That should be all you need to make sure that your game and chat audio mix is balanced correctly.The Creative Dev Team has a new firmware that supports Game/Chat balance for Sound Blaster G6 on PS4. Right-click a user and use the volume gain slider to increase or decrease the volume of their voices.īalancing Game and Chat Audio On Xbox Oneįor balancing on Xbox One, open the Xbox Guide Menu using the guide button and use the Headset Chat Mixer volume slider to control the level of game audio sent to your headphones, hopefully a capable pair, like the CloudX Flight. If you are using Discord, there are even per-person volume options so you can balance out different members of your team based on their unique microphone characteristics. Increase or decrease the voice app and the game to balance out the audio. Here you can adjust each program running on your desktop individually. Right click the speaker icon in the toolbar and then open the volume mixer. If you’re using a separate program for voice chat from the game itself, you can balance audio by using the system volume mixer. You can do this by either using the system volume mixer, or by adjusting the volume directly from your headset’s volume controls, like the ones on the control box on the HyperX Cloud Alpha S. If you then find that you’re having trouble hearing small audio indicators like footsteps because the SFX volume is too low, then bring the entire system’s levels up by increasing the PC volume manually. Lower SFX while keeping Voice steady until you can clearly hear your teammates at their normal volume over the loudest sounds in the game, like explosions. If the voice chat you’re using is in-game, you’ll need to enter the game’s audio settings and look for separate sliders for “Voice” and “SFX”. They all depend on where each source of the audio is coming from. If you’re playing on PC there are a few different ways to balance out the volume of your game and the friends you’re chatting to at the same time. Here’s how to get your game audio and chat audio on the right level. It can be uncomfortable, or even disorientating, to have the game and chat audio improperly balanced, or you might miss out on that crucial call from a teammate that gets you killed. If your game and chat audio are constantly fighting for your attention in your headphones you may need to take some time to readjust those levels.
