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Best THX spatial audio settings blackshark v2 fortnite?

  • 19 June 2021
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Hey everyone! Around six months ago, I made the decision to purchase and use the Razer Blackshark v2 as my headset for my new pc. I've mainly played fortnite in the time since buying the headset/pc as it's my main game but have also played some warzone and a few other games. A consistent issue with me especially for fortnite is that I simply am never able to hear proper footsteps/pin point any locations which often leads to me not hearing enemies positions properly and sometimes not even able to pinpoint gunshot locations. About a week ago, I was looking through all my different settings to finally try to figure out what the issue was, it turns out my THX spatial audio wasn't even on and my THX spatial audio headset option was disabled. Since then, I've obviously turned THX spatial audio on, I have my main output device on Windows 10 the THX spatial audio, I made a profile on Razer Synapse which I then switched to manually setting custom modes for each application (I'm just working on fortnite settings currently) and I plan on making profiles to also attach to warzone and other games I play eventually as well. The only other thing I've done since turning THX spatial audio on was to immediately turn bass boost on to the max of 100 for my fortnite profile since I believed that would help with the issue of not hearing footsteps properly/not having the pinpoint location surround sound that according to all the experts is the best in its gaming class. However, that wasn't the case and once I did that everything just begun sounding much deeper and my friends voices also sounded much deeper, the footsteps/surround sound was still arguably the same issue just a much deeper sound. So I'm wondering if there's anyone who would happen to know the best possible enhancements/EQ settings for fortnite in Razer Synapse I can try? I certainly feel as though I should turn the bass boost down a fair bit, but how much should I turn it down? Should I maybe even turn it off? I also use the in game fortnite chat with my friends as well, so with that in mind I'm wondering especially about the voice clarity option if that should be on as well as the sound normalization option, as I'm not entirely sure how those options can help me? I have also not purchased the $20 THX spatial audio software directly from their website as I have read that I don't have to buy it because my Blackshark v2 should already fully have access to the THX spatial audio software. I would be happy to buy it though if that will help my audio in any way? Also, would anyone happen to have any general tips on using the THX spatial audio program if it's recommended I buy it as well as Razer Synapse together? I'm simply looking to make up for lost time with this great headset, and appreciate any and all advice/responses! Cheers and thank you!

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Update: In the past week, I've obviously experimented with a few different things. I've turned bass boost down to 30 - then completely off. I've also switched the EQ settings for fortnite to game mode, which helped my game sound much better. The actual game sounds I'm getting now are much improved - however I do honestly believe they could be much better. The in game voice chat however, with my friends sounds simply put, terrible. They quite honestly sound automated and much deeper than they should, and when I tried experimenting with the voice clarity option it simply made them sound much more automated and worse than before. I don't believe there is a way to turn on/off THX spatial audio for different applications - just that you can have profile sounding effects for them. However, I may be wrong? I'm still learning about THX spatial audio, so if there's a way to have it turn on/off for different applications I'd love to know about that! But also if there's anything anyone can tell me about how to specifically get good audio in fortnite, please do so! I thought I'd finally found the issue to my six month long standing issue of bad in game audio - however it has now been two weeks of trying different THX spatial audio settings and I haven't found anything that really quite works yet. So please if you have any ideas/thoughts on the subject matter don't hesitate to comment! Cheers 🙂
me too my sounds so bad i was have razer blackshark v2x but with logtech card sound and the sounds was so good , when i buy the razer blackshark v2 without x it was so bad and i am trying to get good settings for fortnite , so for that time i ll ues my old razer blackshark v2x 😞