Cockpit sounds in headset and outside in speakers. DONE!
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That’s the second part of my research. I read a lot about forcing a program to this or that audio card so I think it won’t be difficult BUT, since I want IVC to be on the headset I have to deal with how to do it to keep both things: separated external and internal sounds and having IVC where internals are.
I plan to make my own IVC network to test. Maybe it is going through center channel of 5.1 and is already solved… If not, I’ll see what to doFrom what others have posted, it sounds like the IVC is sent to the Default Communications Device, which can be set to the same as the Default Device and then you’ll have everything being output by the same soundcard, or you can set the Default Communications Device to a different device (second soundcard, USB headset) and then the IVC will be output to that, with the remaining sounds output from the Default Device.
I guess if you’ve got an analogue headset and two soundcards, you could set the Default Communications Device to the second one, then build a little mixer to mix the output from the second card and the orange output on the first card together, so you get both IVC and internal cockpit sounds in the headset, with the external sounds coming out the speakers connected to the green output (and black if you’re using rear speakers and BMS supports that). I wouldn’t have thought the orange line level output would be high enough to drive headphones though, so you might need to add a little headphone amp into the mixer for that.
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Very nice find mrwell! With my single onboard 5.1 audio soundcard I can get AI, Comms (didn’t test IVC), Betty in my headphones and other sound trough my speakers. I had to set my setup from speakers to 5.1 in my audio panel. Only problem is that i hear the AI and comms in one ear.
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@Doveman What I have to check is which channel IVC audio is sent to. If is sent to all of them, I have to search for another approach… If is sent to front… same issue. If is sent to center/subwoofer is perfect I already have an small mixer just in case
@Bertuz I tried that with normal 2.1 headphones too and it happened the same: only mono audio. I don’t have problems with that because with 5.1 headset works fine.
If someone know why is heard stereo in a 5.1 headset connected to a single output of the 5.1 system with only one stereo plug and mono in 2.1 headphones with the same type of plug, please let us know
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I think you should probably set it to 5.1 configuration if you only have 5.1 speakers, so that the side channels are mixed down into the speakers you do have. Otherwise you lose the sound on those channels. I don’t know if BMS actually sends anything to them though.
Alternatively, you might be OK if you set it to 7.1 but untick the speakers you don’t have, which should force it to mix them down to the speakers you do have.
I found a weird bug with the Realtek control panel a while ago, where if I set it to Stereo (I only had two speakers) it would lose the center channel, which was very obvious when playing games with dialogue as you could barely hear it. What I had to do was set it to 5.1 and then untick the speakers I didn’t have (i.e. everything except for the front speakers) which forced it to mixdown the other channels into the front two. They might have fixed that now though.
That bug is the reason its set to 7.1 - on 5.1 for some reason it was skipping a channel (cant remember which one). The solution was to set it to 7.1 and untick the side speakers, which corrected it. I dont recall it affecting BMs though, I noticed it playing Arma and it was directional dialogue that let me notice.
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Anyone tried???
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Well I did, but I only get comms in one ear of my headphones. Any idea how to fix that?
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Well I did, but I only get comms in one ear of my headphones. Any idea how to fix that?
I’m not sure exactly what you tried but I can tell you that the orange socket carries centre on one side and subwoofer on the other, so you’ll only hear internal cockpit and IVC sounds (assuming both are sent to centre) on one side of headphones plugged into that socket. You could use a cable that takes whichever side is centre and duplicates that signal to both L and R on the headphones.
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As Doveman said, one side is for center and the other for subwoofer. Since BMS is not using 5.1, it’s either using subwoofer signal. So no sound in one side.
5.1 speaker system send center to center speaker and 5.1 headset duplicates center to both speakers. So you have to make or buy and adapter to send center side of green connection to both sides of stereo headphones.
A workaround is slightly unplug orange plug until yor hear it in both sides -
@Doveman What I have to check is which channel IVC audio is sent to. If is sent to all of them, I have to search for another approach… If is sent to front… same issue. If is sent to center/subwoofer is perfect I already have an small mixer just in case
@Bertuz I tried that with normal 2.1 headphones too and it happened the same: only mono audio. I don’t have problems with that because with 5.1 headset works fine.
If someone know why is heard stereo in a 5.1 headset connected to a single output of the 5.1 system with only one stereo plug and mono in 2.1 headphones with the same type of plug, please let us know
I know I’m resurrecting an old thread, but I’m checking in to confirm that there is a workaround to get sound in both ears with a stereo (rather than 5.1) headset. I’m also now using a headset for radio calls and my surround speakers for external sounds. I’ve got a stereo gaming headset, and I also only got sound in the left ear. I purchased this 3.5mm mono-to-stereo adaptor from Monoprice, and now I get sound in both ears of my stereo headset. It’s a <$5 (USD, once shipping is included) solution for anyone who doesn’t want to buy a new headset in order to get sound on both sides, and it resolves the problem completely.
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While this is an intriguing approach I have noticed four issues I was unable to fix.
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The sidetone feature introduced in 4.33 seems to output your own voice indiscriminately to all speakers instead of just the center speaker. Therefore, you will unrealistically hear your own voice from all speakers, not just your headphones.
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When using external views and panning around, with the aircraft being directly in front of and flying away from the observer, no engine sound is heard from the center speaker since that output is going to your headphones.
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Since the center/subwoofer channel is being directed to your headphones, you obviously lose your subwoofer.
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Having your headphones plugged into the same sound card as your speakers removes an easy way of recording just IVC comms (i.e. no other game sounds) for a synchronized TacView replay using SyncNix (https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?24211-SyncNix-audio-for-Tacview).
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I hate to bring up an old thread, but it seems that Flight Sound X is selling again. FSx goes through USB so you cannot hook up to the soundcard. Has anyone found a way to make this work?
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Nope. You could try: http://software.muzychenko.net/eng/vac.htm
It is the software I will use to push IVC into the headset/helmet. I haven’t tested it yet!
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incidentally since switching to win10 i have issues with bms.
IVC and Teamspeak are routed through my headset and all the bms sounds are routed to the speakers - although the headset is connected
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There must be an answer to that but if not you might buy (or make) a simple/cheap mix box from an audio store to input both jacks and output to your headset.
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Probably not what you’re looking for but may help others with ideas.
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Hello guys,
Sorry to pop that thread again.
I got my headphone today and want to try that.
So if I plug my speaker to the “out” output, I heard the external sound in my speaker.
My headset has two plugs. One for the mic, one for the cup. So if I plug the cup plug to the center/sub output, I hear the voice (tower) but only to the left side. No stereo. And the other things that annoy me is that I hear the electric panel sound all the time. You too? Is it normal? We don’t hear that normally…
To solve the mono problem, if I read the thread carefully, I need that: https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=7158 Someone can confirm?
Now the question:
Is there my mic will work correctly?
If I’m flying online with my instructor, I will hear him from the speaker or the headset?Not bad at all anyway.
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start watching around 1:15 which is close to what I ended up doing.
I’m not sure if that adapter you posted actually makes the connections to both left and right side on the stereo side.
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I cannot confirm that IVC comes out over center channel or left/right channel as my ivc goes through a separate sound card to the mixer.
as for your mic, I’m not sure what you’re asking? if the mic goes into the mic in, it will work as before as you’re not really changing anything on the input side of things.
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so what I do, because the way my stuff is set up, there is just going to be some noise from another source is I set my computer up for my headsset with the playback devices page by disabling the speakers , then I star falcon, once I hear falcon in the headset I alt+tab, then, I switch the default device to the speakers, then I make sure that the microphone is still set as default communication device…sometimes right here, youll get a CTD…then you go back into falcon, whatever you are doing will be on your headphones and everything else will be on the speakers, at lest it works for me and im using windows 10 but sometimes when i go through that process i get ctd’s. everything soundwise is HDMI or 3.0, i’m not a hardware wizard or a modder or wrote a file or have a soundcard I just changed the settings. I suppose if you get fancy with winamps or something you cold probably get music and maybe even ivc working to some extent. I don’t record video or audio, so there is a possibility that if you plan on it, this would cause some microphone problems because USB historically sucks when taking in duel channel input, or output, tbh. My background is music and construction so I’m probably wrong somehow but it is what it is.