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@gg123xyzI get what you are saying. Higher frequencies have shorter wave lengths. I don't think this necessarily applies tho to playing this game tho. They program in levels of sounds. In real life it matters more.
Personally the setting you show would not do me any good. I cant hear sound above 13k and doubt there are sounds that high in Apex anyway. Footstep audio is generally lower frequency. I saw someone did a study of COD and found all footsteps are between 100 and 200 Hz. This is why in the Sonar software that range is boosted for their COD setting. Apex has footsteps slightly higher frequency than that because of the robot legs and water.
That video being valorant also probably isn't as helpful as sounds will be different game to game. In that vid the footsteps are lower frequency than Apex.
If it works for you use it. I highly suggest people test things out. People hear sound so differently.
i made this version for the sonar software:
mixer
50%
-17.1dB
Game
gain = -12.0 dB
freq = 20.0Hz
Q = 0.707
gain = -12.0dB
freq = 101.8Hz
Q = 0.707
gain = -2.8dB
freq = 471.9Hz
Q = 0.707
gain = 2.5dB
freq = 1.96kHz
Q = 0.707
gain = 12.0dB
freq = 9.88kHz
Q = 0.707
bass = 0.0
voice = 12.0dB
treble = 12.0dB
gain = 12.0dB
i cant say for sure its the same as the vlc version but i tried and there you go.
just crank up the volume in your speakers too.
i havent tried it yet in the game just the valorant sound from the link i showed. its nice now you gave me the sonar software i can use it in the game now too ty!
and the idea of the angle came from me using the drawing technique of finding a third of a line. you see i half the horizontal line on the right hand and half the circle the line touches which makes a nice third of the line from the horizontal line in the center of the circle to the bottom of the circle on the vertical line;
hayhor said he cant hear at some sound, then increase the gain. increase the volume. in the sonar software the gain is zero for the apex legends setting and the footsteps are inaudible in the valorant clip for me so i increase the gain to hear something.
- OldTreeCreeper3 years agoHero+
@gg123xyz thank you, that gives players another option to try.
If you could please come back when you have tried your settings in sonar vs the default apex settings to let us know how it went or if you make further adjustments, I'll put them in the first post as an option.
As for myself I'm almost deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, with tri tonal tinnitus that is exacerbated by loud noise, so volume is an issue. So no headphones for me, just TV speakers from the xbox. Also as an example if more that one person is talking in a room the sounds get muddied. Basically what I'm trying to say is I can't really carry out sound tests 😃
But the dts settings on the xbox really improved things for me, it seems to have spread out the sounds in the stereo field, for want of a better explanation.
- 3 years ago
i think any setting thats pre made is good just increase the treble and voice to 12 and the gain to max and your set. in the sonar sound.
i tested my settings above in apex legends and with voice at 0 its useless. but voice at 12 and its ok, so the same for the other sound settings too like the pre made apex legends sound.
- OldTreeCreeper3 years agoHero+
@gg123xyz thank you. So I'll do out the below and put it in the first post, if you agree.
Would you add "just crank up the volume in your speakers/headphones too." to these settings?
@gg123xyz wrote:i made this version for the sonar software:
mixer
50%
-17.1dB
Game
gain = -12.0 dB
freq = 20.0Hz
Q = 0.707gain = -12.0dB
freq = 101.8Hz
Q = 0.707gain = -2.8dB
freq = 471.9Hz
Q = 0.707gain = 2.5dB
freq = 1.96kHz
Q = 0.707gain = 12.0dB
freq = 9.88kHz
Q = 0.707bass = 0.0
voice = 12.0dB
treble = 12.0dBgain = 12.0dB
I think any setting thats pre made in sonar is good,
just increase the treble and voice to 12 and the gain to max.
And your are set in the sonar sound.
- 3 years ago
i don't mind but these are more for valorant to be honest. that and i tried to match the sonar to the vlc equalizer and its not a 1 to 1 match more of a guessing game and trial and error listening but it works to hear better that much it does so i guess its ok to add it to the first post. ty.
- OldTreeCreeper3 years agoHero+
@gg123xyz thank you for your ideas. Any setting improvements you find work for you pl let us know 😃
- OldTreeCreeper3 years agoHero+
@pandareno1999 added your bit to first post, sorry for late addition. 🥳
Its made a huge difference to the Apex sound on my TV speakers from the xbox 1S, thank you.
- 3 years ago
i played around with the settings some more and now its a bit better sounding. in apex legends.
mixer
default
Gamegain = -10dB
freq = 20.7Hz
Q = 0.707gain = 0.9dB
freq = 56.6Hz
Q = 0.707gain = 10.dB
freq = 83.2Hz
Q = 0.707gain = -10.9dB
freq = 104.4Hz
Q = 0.707gain = 8.2dB
freq = 167Hz
Q = 0.707gain = -11.9dB
freq = 361.8Hz
Q = 0.707gain = 10.dB
freq = 514.4Hz
Q = 0.707gain = -12.0dB
freq = 1.31kHz
Q = 0.707gain = -9.9dB
freq = 5.89kHz
Q = 0.707gain = 10.4dB
freq = 18.41kHz
Q = 0.707bass = -12.0
voice = 12.0dB
treble = 12.0dBgain = 12.0dB
see the way the bumps go up to the right and are equal bumps this is what i tried to make it look like.
i think its better than my other settings you put in the first post. try it out.
- Kyldenar3 years agoSeasoned Ace
I love how there is a seven page thread about all these tricks to improve the sound and make the game playable, because EA won't just fix them by default.
- hayhor3 years agoHero@Kyldenar These changes are helpful for any game. People do the same for COD, destiny, fortnite, etc. The reasons as that certain noise profiles drown out others and people hear things differently.
For example in apex many times the lack of footsteps is not that they do not exist, it's that the person was shooting their gun while multiple abilities were going off around them and there's some environmental noise at the POI.
Yes a game company could make these things less pronounced but most do not seem to. The only shooter I've played where footsteps were above everything else, including abilities is Rogue Company. - 3 years ago
footstep length its audible is 7 foot from the player maybe more or less idk but about 7 foot.
its only really audible 4 foot or less from the player.
valorant you can be 50 foot from them and hear their footsteps.
the gear is 2x or 3x as loud as the footsteps in apex legends. you can hear that 20 foot or so away.
- OldTreeCreeper3 years agoHero+
@Kyldenar you don't have to read more that the first post 😛
- OldTreeCreeper3 years agoHero+
@gg123xyz I'll get YT to rest out your settings and if they are gtg I'll put them in the first post. Thanks