AC Odyssey muffled sound with 7.1 Surround Headphones.

[I-Cyb3r-I]

Hi all, recently I decided to calibrate 7.1 Surround Sound for my Razer Kraken 7.1 V2 Headsets so I could have much more immersive sound quality when playing games. After calibrating 7.1 sound I started up AC Odyssey and instantly realized the sound was more muffled and quiet then it had been previously. I checked my in-game audio as well as my system volume but no problems as both were working fine and on full volume.

So I decided to test if 7.1 surround was working and I tested it on Battlefield V, and was able to confirm that 7.1 was working as BFV's sound was much louder then Odyssey. I believe that turning on 7.1 surround sound must have somehow made Odyssey much quieter and I'm not sure how to fix it, so any suggestions would be helpful.

Cheers, Assass1n.

[Cube]

Heya did you ever figure this out... cause I think its happening to me too...

[I-Cyb3r-I]

No, I don't think I did. It seems to be normal now as I've long since upgraded to a new set of headphones and a new PC too. I think it is a surround sound problem.

[Dow]

Did you have any spatial sound settings enabled?

Windows 10 should have a built in one called "Windows sonic for headphones", there are also purchasable ones such as DTS X.

Enabling this seemed to force the game into Surround mode, while it would otherwise stay in Stereo.

-Tried it with Audeze mobius, set to 7.1(no spatial) the sound was muffled, but set to stereo (no spatial) it was not, (not muffled, that is).

-Tried with 7.1 and Windows Sonic, No longer muffled, did not try stereo seeing as the whole point was to use the 7.1 surround setting.

Hope this helps!

Edit: Yes I do realize the post is from over a year ago x) (Worth mentioning is that windows will configure the device settings back to stereo while spatial sound is active).

[ToTeMKallo [FIN]]

This isn´t necessarily related to the topic but as this seems to be one of the latest audio related topic I´d like to ask do you people think chatter between NPC´s (I mean basic pedestrians on the street having a chat with each other you can´t take part) is quite quiet? I mean if you go to crowded place like some market in Athens I think there should be quite a lot of noise from people babling with each other and other sounds of life. Sure I can hear them talk but it´s just so quiet compared to cutscene chats involving the player.

So I´m wondering am I having a problem with my audio or is this a common thing and I have no reason to worry? I know my audio system consists of two speakers and a subwoofer. The bad thing is I´m not sure if my subwoofer is working correctly anymore as certain high noises cause buzzing, not in AC:O but for example RDR2 wolf howl as the volume has to be kept quite high to be enjoyable. But I guess this isn´t related to the low chitchat volume of NPC´s in AC:O.