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IL-2 Sturmovik The famous combat flight simulator. |
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setup Medusa 5.1 USB headset
Somebody knows how to setup a Medusa 5.1 USB headset??? If i install and using the headset in Il2 the sounds arround my plane are very diffuus and unidentifically. If someone have experience, plse help???
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I run a Medusa 5.1 headset off an Audigy Sound card (non uSB). With the headset on the surround sounds are not as good as through the speakers but miles ahead of a stereo set of headphones. There are a couple of "black holes" when you pan your head around which I have yet to remove.
One thing I found was to ensure that you have 5.1 speakers set in both windows (Control Panel -->Sounds and Devices-->Advanced in the speaker sound settings) and your sound card application. In IL2 setup make sure you have Surround set. |
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The USB Medusa doesnt need a soundcard. It has his own inbuilt one. Only usb to plug into the usp port and it runs.
How can i check: In Il2setup surround set?? |
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That is why I just don't like the USB-Medusa. I got the one with the amplifier and it really beats the USB-Version in many regards. But both versions lack the basses I know from my headset. When I start the engines with my stereo-headset, it really sounds like a starting engine. No matter what I set my X-Fi and my Medusa to, the fact that frequency-band starts at 50Hz simply stops any fun for me. Using that headset, I can understand why people complain about the sound in IL2
My stereo-headset starts at 8Hz and has pretty much beat at that low frequency. Awesome, especially when flying a P47 and firing all guns. |
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http://www.mediafire.com/?9t9saxxnzwd In any case most complaints about IL2 sounds are from people that use bad quality speakers, not soundcards. Last edited by Roy; 04-18-2008 at 11:39 AM. |
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Hi
I use the Medusa Amplified head set they seem to be more powerful than the usb ones. Settings are plentiful if you have a Audigy1/2/Xfi/Soundblaster cards. In IL2 folder there's an icon called setup hit that and try the settings under the sound tab you will have to play around with that to see what sounds best. If you have one of the soundcards as mentioned above there are CMSS 3D settings in the creative audio console to really get the best sound out of these headphones. Have fun |
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In most cases people who complained turned out to have either connected a good set of speakers to the onboard-soundchip or a crappy soundsetup to a good soundcard or even a mixture of both. I'm not saying the Medusa is bad - I got one myself - but it's taking compromises on all sides. |
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As for soundcards/speakers etc... bad speakers have a bigger impact than a "crappy" onboard soundchip. As in... several orders of magnitude. Sound setup (stereo, 2.1 etc) should make no difference since that doesn't affect the sound quality in itself. |
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It's all up to yourself and your personal preferences.
To the biological/perceptive question: You can clearly identify 2 different tones in 3 Hz steps up to a minimum of 14-16 Hz. Below that, until 8Hz you have a resonance-frequency, which gives you a humming sound, just like the deep roaring of an engine or echoing of an explosion or thunder. Little hearing test: http://www.dogstar.dantimax.dk/acoustic/440.mp3 http://www.dogstar.dantimax.dk/acoustic/443.mp3 Play them after another and you should note the difference. Frequency in IL2 surely not dampened at <50Hz and it indeed makes a difference, as it is the difference of a Merlin Engine and a moped. The problem is, though, that most onboard-soundchips don't display these sounds and their spectrum very well. But then, you surely wouldn't expect to play IL2-1946 with all details to max on an onboard-graphics-card, either. And if you really think that a soundcard only makes a difference with a 5.1 soundsystem and above, you really should spend some 20 bucks for a soundblaster to hear the difference. As KG26_Alpha said, you can get a lot more even out of the small Medusa-Speakers by using the CMSS 3D spatial sound and the 24bit crystalizer, bass-rerouting and THX-5.1-distance- and speaker-calibration. With an X-Fi you can also use a stereo-headset with spatial sound that comes pretty close to full 5.1, when using a decent headset. Surely speakers don't affect the soundfiles, but they can represent them or not. It's surely not only crappy boxes, as they only can mirror the sounds they are presented. But you wouldn't fit 22" tires to a Fiat Cinquicento either and expect it to break a Formula1 record. Last edited by Feuerfalke; 04-18-2008 at 05:18 PM. |
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This is what a (crappy) 3d (freq and signal gain over time...) fourier transform shows for the most common engine ingame http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/6...menginevo5.jpg (the lower right corner was cut, it should be 107hz) Yeah, BIG difference... Quote:
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I have an x-fi with THX certified 7.1 speakers. As I upgraded my system I had the chance to test the differences between onboard soundcard with crappy speakers (cambridge soundworks 5.1 crappy speakers), then onboard soundcard with decent speakers, then x-fi with decent speakers. The biggest difference (by a loooooooong shot) was in the speakers. To settle this a bit: I'm not saying there is no difference with your uber stereo speakers and some "ok" ones that start playing at 45-50hz. I'm saying there's VERY little difference moreso if one takes into account the amount of different sounds playing at the same time ingame and the gain differences between that slim frequency band and the rest of the audible band. Last edited by Roy; 04-19-2008 at 01:46 AM. |
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