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<DIV>In my pit I can turn off all of the speakers but the headset, the transducers do the vibrations with very little noise. </DIV>
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<DIV>I agree about hearing nothing but coms in the headset, I personaly find it annoying to hear other sounds through it as I dont on real planes. </DIV>
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<DIV>Matt, is there any chance you could write an article about what you have described, people on the list chat about it once in a while but the info is never saved. I keep forgeting about the options of two sounds cards.(gotta put that on my official to-do list)</DIV>
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<DIV>Yeah I agree........I also think a large portion of sound in an airplane<BR>is felt more than heard (never been in a helo).<BR><BR>That said, stereo effect can add greatly to the immersion IMO,<BR>especially on a relatively decent audio system (i.e. something better<BR>than the el cheapo speakers that come with most pre-fab PCs). However, I<BR>don't know if it would be worth it to rig the intercom for stereo.......<BR><BR>I have a pair of old Realistic headphones I use when people in the house<BR>are trying to sleep........music usually sounds ok, but to me, without<BR>all the rumble and shaking floorboards, simulator sounds just aren't<BR>nearly as good as on "normal" speakers. Personally, I think the better<BR>solution is to have just voice output (and possibly backround "fuzz" to<BR>simulate scratchy radios or "humms" or whatever) on the headset, and run<BR>the engine and systems audio through an external setup, with the volume<BR>cranked way up. This way you get clear,
in-your-ear voice comm, and<BR>bone-jarring engine noise that's realistically muffled by the headset.<BR><BR>I have a run-of-the-mill stereo system hooked up to my PC and with the<BR>volume cranked and some good simulator sounds, it's pretty cool. :)<BR>Basically, just make it like it is in the real thing.........everything<BR>that would normally go through the headset (voice, nav audio, etc) goes<BR>through the headest on the PC, and everything else goes through the main<BR>audio system. The voic part is a simple task with two sound cards. Sound<BR>cards are cheap these days (you don't need anything fancy for voice) and<BR>if you have one of the many motherboards with onboard sound, it's even<BR>more convenient. RogerWilco and all other voice comms I've tried allow<BR>you to set what audio device to use, for both input and output. To get<BR>nav audio and other headset-only sounds right, you'd need to have some<BR>external software that plays the files on whatever audio device
you<BR>select. Alternatively, if you're on a multiple-machine setup (as many<BR>sims are), you can have one machine playing headset sounds and the other<BR>playing external sounds. With X-Plane for instance, each machine has its<BR>own copy of X-Plane, complete with data files etc, including sound<BR>files. You could have all the external sounds on one copy just be blank,<BR>on another machine you could have normal external sounds but make all<BR>the voice and avionics wav's blank (you'd plug your headset into the<BR>former machine, and run an external system on the latter). For MSFS<BR>using WideView or whatever, you might be able to rig something up with<BR>FSUIPC without resorting to custom software.<BR><BR> -Matt Bailey<BR></DIV></DIV><p>
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