Footsteps/radar

**Senses** · 02-12-12, 09:09 AM

I used to have a 15 dollar pair of headphones from WalMart, and my onboard mobo sound and I could hear everything, so it's not quality of headphones or gear.
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**~~Mr_Rager~~** · 02-12-12, 01:33 PM

I use Steelseries Siberia (Icemat's) with Steelseries external usb Soundcard. The New Siberia v2's don't come with the soundcard.

I have the volume as high as the soundcard can go and thus run 6/100 volume on my pc through the "volume mixer."

Settings I use in my .cfg are

// SOUND
cl_customsounds "0"
dsp_enhance_stereo "0"
dsp_mix_max "0.9"
dsp_room "0"
dsp_slow_cpu "1"
dsp_spatial "40"
dsp_speaker "50"
dsp_water "14"
snd_musicvolume "0"
snd_surround_speakers "0"
soundscape_flush "1"
voice_enable "1"
volume ".6"

but that doesn't neccasarily mean it will work for you as sound is a personal preference thing.

Also in Audio settings in CSS - I use low quality and I use headphones.

**Rad** · 02-12-12, 09:14 PM

My opinion:

Get decent stereo headphones. Don't run surround sound mode. You don't need to tweak any settings on your pc. I use a cheap USB sound input device and it works fine. If you can't hear the footsteps then you may have an actual hearing problem.

**Ryan** · 02-13-12, 07:05 AM

Surround sound has helped me quite a bit. Helps pinpoint where that footstep may have come from.

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**MRBUCKET** · 02-13-12, 11:31 AM

I use the senheisser pc151, they been working good for me for about 7 years lol

**Toad** · 02-14-12, 01:54 AM

Honestly, if you want good footstep sounds then just go into your sound card settings and tweak the equalizer so that it accentuates the treble end of the spectrum while not deafening you on the bass side of the spectrum. I get the feeling that this is what "game mode" on some sound cards/headphones does. It makes a difference although I don't bother doing it. I noticed when I got Sennheiser HD270s years ago... at first they had fuller sound but footsteps were harder to hear. Tweaking settings made footsteps blatantly obvious if they were at all in range. The cheaper headphones I had had before that were more effective in FPs games because they only really had the "tinny" high treble poor bass sounds, but washing out really heavy reverberating gunfire and accentuating "clip clop" footsteps is really good for FPS. F that noise though, I'd rather live life on the edge babeee.

**SiphiX** · 02-14-12, 05:22 PM

Steel series 5H
If your on a really low budget you can pick up the 4H

These are the best, for hearing foot steps, a bomb plant, gun pick up, from across the map where most people cannot hear yet. This series of headphoens was specifically designed for just that, just for counter strike.

Music through them sounds terrible, and bass is totally poor for such expensive headphones. But they were never intended for anything but the reson stated above.

Also the sennheizer 161 set is / was - very very popular among css compeditive players for years. It was never designed to be that type of a head set but it and the 151's just happened to be that way. Long before you saw headsets target at gamers, these were a popular choice among the worlds top css players like 8 years ago for the same reason they are missing some bass and the trebble or audio spectrum for foot steps in cs comes out perfect and defined through them.

I have tried many, many, many, headsets, keyboards, and mice, when I was playing compeditivly over the years trying to always find that edge. I have a closet full of half used equipment.

I cannot talk about current generation eqiupment tho, I have not been compeditive going on 5 years now and I know some major companys are putting out headsets geared at fps gaming. How well they work I have no ideas but for what you want the steel series 5H or 4H (same thing basicaly at the core) you will definatly be happy with 100% sure for foot steps before others hear them.