Get Ready for Avalon | The Complete ArtIsWar Audio Guide

Hi YouTube, Art here again. It's been so long, I don't even know if I remember how to record one of these videos. It's been 3 months since I uploaded and that is an eternity for me, but I promise it's been for good reason. Let's first talk about why BO7 dropped, why no new video for me. The audio system is largely unchanged. BO7 just kind of slapped a new label on it, used the same core audio system that BO6 did, changed some audio samples, and the big problem gave us a new map. The issue every time we get a new map, audio seems to be one of the last things that they do on the finishing passes and when the new map drops at least for the first couple seasons, the audio occlusion or hearing sounds through other things or above you or below you is really messed up and it just takes them time to refine that. My hands are tied there in terms of tuning that. So, instead of rushing out a video when BO7 dropped and just saying, "Hey, these are the same settings, new game." and blowing smoke, I took the time, I took my scraps, I went into the cave, and I did my best Iron Man. I'm excited in a week or two to show you all the full project, but that doesn't mean I came out empty-handed for today. Today's video is going to be what I call the Bible video. Instead of jumping around between all these different videos, it's all going to be condensed here and I put in a lot of work to streamline the system both for changing settings between games and for setting it up for everybody, whether you're using the Voice Meter method, Wave Link, or one of the approved devices, which I'll keep updated on my new website, artiswar.io. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Like I said, this is the Bible video. This is the foundation. We are resetting to the beginning. We're going to clean slate it and this system is going to be a lot more straightforward, a lot more simple, and a lot less convoluted so that you can maintain it easier on your own, even for free. The old BO6 tune was kind of convoluted in the way that the peace preset needed to be recreated every time you got a new set of headphones. In today's video, we're going to separate all that so that the game EQ headphone EQ is totally separated. So, if the tune doesn't change, you just need to change headphones, you can change that super simply. Don't worry, the script that we're going to talk about in today's video does have a way to remove the old tune so you don't need to go uninstalling everything right now. Actually, the script does have just an uninstall pathway. So, everybody always ask, "Hey, how do I just get rid of it all?" Today, we'll cover that as well. Before we hop into it, while While watching this video, I beg you, watch this on a different device. Watch it on another computer, watch it on your TV, watch it on your phone. Do not watch it on the computer that you're doing the work on, because if you do, the audio's going to break, the video's going to stop, and you're not going to be able to hear anything. Like I mentioned earlier, a lot of today is going to be done through a script that I spent a lot of time working through to make this so much easier for you guys. So, link in the description down below or on the GitHub page for Art Tune database or Art Tune DB, which we'll talk about here in a little bit, you'll find an IRM IEX link. It's kind of like the Chris Titus Windows utility, but you can run it in PowerShell. So, you'll want to copy that link, you'll want to hit your Windows key, search PowerShell. Once it comes up, you can right-click and run as administrator. Once it populates, you'll hit control V to paste and enter, and it will run this script. This script is going to be the basis of the install uninstall work that we do today. Just so we can all follow the bouncing ball together, I have the most recent BO6 video up-to-date installed on this PC. I have my headset in peace. You can see I have Art Tune in default audio. I have a Subi here. I have Voice Meter running Art Tune out to my DAC with all the right buffering settings. This is where most of y'all will be. But, like I said, we're going to do all of this through this script. There are three paths here. First one is what most of y'all are going to use if you're using random USB headphones, A40s, the plug on your motherboard, the plug on your case, DAC on your desk that's not one of the approved devices we'll talk about here in a little bit. Path one, you can hit one, you can hit enter, and it'll ask you installation mode. Two is advanced, you already know what you have and you want to keep it going. I don't recommend this. One is fresh start, so you'll hit one and enter, and it's going to back up your whole config file. We're going to close all of these just so we don't bust anything. And then it's going to go through, and it's going to uninstall everything from the old two, and it'll prompt us to restart. So, once we get to the end of the script, we'll go over that, we'll restart, and what we'll do is we'll rerun that command in PowerShell again here in a moment. So, here we are at the end. It said it removed everything. It's asking if I want to restart. You'll hit Y and enter here, and it will restart. Okay, we're rebooted. We're going to hit the Windows key again. We're going to type PowerShell, and then we'll right-click again, run as administrator. In here, all you have to do is press the up arrow and then hit enter and it'll run the last command again. So, we're going to run the script again. It's going to run from my website. We just did the one option, which was for Voicemeeter. We'll go on to the two option, which is going to be for Art Tuna approved devices, which I found two new ones, which we'll talk about here in future videos on the channel. But, right now it's the GC7 and the G8 from Sound Blaster. Some great options. We'll go over those later in the video. For now, we're going to go right back into the one path to install Voicemeeter, which is what you're going to use for all the other devices that aren't approved devices. And once we're back in here, we'll just hit fresh start again, but this time it's not going to detect any of the software and it's just going to start downloading everything here. The main reason for the Bible video and the script is just to kind of re-center everything. Over the course of the last couple years, things had gotten kind of messy and convoluted and I needed a way to bring everything back to the same foundation if I ever wanted to spread out to other games. This is going to save y'all time. This is going to save y'all headache jumping between all the different videos. It's going to save me time in my appointments. Even though the project that I have coming in a couple weeks, I do think my appointments are going to be obsolete. notes about the settings included in today's video. The BO7 settings that you're going to get, 100% honesty, are the BO6 settings ported over to this new modular system. While the processing is going to be clearer because I have separated the headphone EQ from some of the other processing, it is largely going to be the same and that BO7 tune is not going to change until Avalon drops and I have time to test that. With this new system being the foundation to implement those changes much easier for y'all. This also represents the first time that I'm going to put all of my settings on a GitHub repo. It's going to be way easier to track what settings are out, when they come out. You'll be able to download a whole library zip and replace that folder on your PC. So, you'll never have any doubts if you're up to date. Like I teased with with the appointments, I don't want to give it away, but if you're watching this video after March 12th, 2026, check the description. There's a very important link at the top. Okay, this script is going to reach a stopping point here where it says action required. The APO installer is running. It tells you to close this, hit okay, hit okay. When it's done, you hit enter and it's going to move on to the next step. The next action step is the Hisuwi installer. It's going to say action required, needs manual configuration. Click yes. We're going to click yes, it's going to run through its process, and it's going to extract. It's going to open two windows, both of which will close. We're going to close the browser, we're going to close Hisuwi, come back here when it's done. Close Hisuwi, the browser, hit enter. It's going to go on to the next step. Going to download a couple other things and move them. Hi-Fi cable, Voice Meter, Hisuwi, REAPER plugs, Equalizer APO, and Loudness EQ control panel, which we're going to go over here in a second. All installed. Press S to launch the control panel. The control panel is going to be our kind of center hub for a lot of the setup that we're going to do. We're going to hit S, and we're going to hit enter. It might take a moment to boot up, but this is my new free app that I'm super excited to share with y'all. We're going to go over in more detail, but basically, it's just a UI way to see what Loudness EQ is doing, whether it's on, whether it's installed, and all of those things on all of these different devices. We are going to be using this Loudness EQ control panel quite a bit, so you'll want to come down here and probably pin it by right-clicking and pin to taskbar. Now, if you ever need to get back to it, another thing that is created by this script is a shortcut to a new folder in your Equalizer APO install called ArtTune DB, or ArtTune database. You can double-click it, and you'll see in here, if we go up to the config directory, you have a new folder called ArtTune DB, and this is where we're going to have our library and all of these other things. There is a shortcut in here to Loudness EQ control panel as well, if you ever need to get to it there. So, this first setup process, like I said, is going to be for the Voice Meter version of the setup. Sound Blaster users will get to you here in a moment. We're going to close this, and we're going to go back to the Loudness EQ control panel. From the device drop-down, we're going to find ArtTune here. We're going to go into Equalizer APO device selector, and then we're going to find ArtTune again. We're going to select it. We're going to click it and check it. And then down here at the bottom, we'll click troubleshooting, and we'll choose LFX GFX from the drop-down. We'll hit okay. You'll get two green check boxes. You'll hit okay. We'll come back here with ArtTune still selected. We'll click install LEQ. You'll get a warning here about Equalizer APO being detected. That's fine. We're going to hit continue. It'll walk through its process. Just let it do its thing. Now, you'll get a warning here that says LEQ has been installed. You need to test it and make sure it's working. So, we're going to come over to Arctune, you're going to right click it and you're going to click test. You see how these green bars hit the top? That means loudness EQ is working. If I go in here and I uncheck loudness EQ and I hit apply and I hit okay and I test it again, you'll see those green bars just barely touch the top. That means it's not working. We want to keep it on, so we're going to go back, check it, hit apply, hit okay. Did the test bars go full green repeatedly? Click yes and then it knows. It says, "Hey, you had EAPO on this device. Do you want to reconfigure it? Do you want to open device selector?" We'll click yes here. It'll open selector for you again, super simple. Select Arctune, check Arctune, click troubleshooting, click LFX GFX, you'll get four boxes, hit okay, hit okay, and you're good to go for this step. If you don't already have this sound Windows open here, you can always get to it by clicking the sound settings button here in the LEQ control panel. The first thing we're going to want to do is we're going to want to click Arctune. With it selected, we'll click configure, 7.1, next, next, next, finish. Next, you're going to want to go through and disable any of the voice meter endpoints here in the playback tab that are not renamed. So, don't touch Arctune, don't touch normal audio, but all of these other ones, right click, disable, right click, disable. And you can go through the list and just disable all of these because we will not be using them. Now, we need to find the device that we're going to use to listen to the audio on our PC. For you, that could be your MixAmp, it could be a dongle that you're using that's USB to 3.5, it could be the port on your mic, it could be the port on your PC. Whatever it is, you need to know it. For this example, we're going to use these speakers, which is the Tipsy dongle that I have. We're going to double click it and we're going to go to advanced. And this is really, really important, you need to note. Not everybody is going to have this long laundry list of formats. The most important one is to note what you have. Yours might even be locked. It's not a big deal. You want to set it to one of these formats. You either want to set it to 16-bit 44.1, 16-bit 48,000, 24-bit 44.1, or 24-bit 48,000. Now, this is the preferred format if you have it. If you have 16-bit, this is the preferred format. If you're locked into this, that is also fine. You just need to know what you have. The bit depth is not important. The only thing that is important is the sample rate. So, no, my headphones are 441 or my headphones are 48,000 Hz. Another note, if you don't have 24-bit or 16-bit and you're locked to 32-bit, you might have some latency issues. You might also have some latency issues here if 48,000 is not available you whatsoever. Some Beacon stuff is locked into 96,000 Hz like this here. You might have issues, your mileage may vary. If you can, 24-bit 48,000 Hz is the money. Any of those other formats, you can scroll back through and I'll list them on the screen. You can see those are the ones that you're want to use. For our case here, since we have it, 24-bit 48 is the best. We're going to note 48,000 Hz is what we want. Also important here is if you have an enhancements tab, which this does not have, you need to make sure enhancements are off. No loudness EQ, no bass, anything. All of that's checked off. No spatial sound that will cause loudness EQ to not work. It'll also mess with the 7.1 that we're doing on the Arctone device. And then these two boxes here must be checked. With all that confirmed, you can hit okay. Now, we're going to go back to Arctone. We're going to double click it and we're going to go to the advanced tab. We want to make sure that this matches our hardware. So, we don't want to set it to 16-bit ever. You're either going to set it to 24-bit 48 or 24-bit 441. If you have 48, use it. I have 48, I'm going to use that. We're also going to go to enhancements and make sure loudness EQ is still checked, but we know that because my new loudness EQ control panel, which reads the registry, says that it is on. So, we'll hit okay here. Now, while we're here, let's talk about what each device does really quick. We're going to use Voicemeeter to send these two virtual devices out to your headset. The reason we're doing that is I don't want to rely on your hardware to reproduce the 7.1 that we need. I can make it happen on a virtual cable, which means I can make it happen for everybody. Arctone will be used for games and only for games. And normal audio is kind of the bypass that you can use at the same time that allows normal untuned audio to come to your headset. Now, we'll go over to the recording tab and we'll do the same thing. You'll see Art Tune and Virtual Mixer in here and renamed. Anything that's not renamed, we can disable. All of these extra Voice Meter outs, we can right click and disable all of these. We don't need them. We'll talk about what Virtual Mix is a little bit later and we need to double check that Art Tune matches the format that we have on the other one. So, if we go back to playback, this for me is 24-bit 48. So, if we go to recording, Art Tune, we need to make sure 24-bit 48, that they match. We'll hit apply. We'll hit okay. So, the next part is the Voice Meter configuration and this part's pretty straightforward. So, we'll hit the Windows key, we'll search for Voice Meter and we want the X64 version if we can get it. Here in stereo input one, you're going to want to pick from the WDM list the Art Tune device. It will get added. If you use a mic and you want to clip in NVIDIA ShadowPlay, stereo input two will be where you put your mic. You just want to uncheck A so that you don't hear your mic. That means that Art Tune, normal audio, and your microphone are all going to be, which is the Virtual Mix. So, in NVIDIA ShadowPlay, you can add that as your mic and it will have all of your audio on it. You'll just mute system sounds. Just a real quick aside. If you don't want to do that, you can ignore this. You don't need to put your mic here at all and you don't need to mess with that. Normal audio is here and then under A1, this is where we're going to choose the hardware device that we want to hear the audio on. That's the speakers dongle here that I'm going to use. It's set to 48,000 Hz, but we'll choose this here and that is that. That is the devices set up here. Now, a real quick thing about volume, Art Tune here is going to be where the games are assigned. When you go into COD, we'll set it to Art Tune. In volume mixer for other games that don't support that, we'll set them there. So, this slider is going to control the game audio for you. All of the game tunings require the games to be set to 100 for me. So, you're going to have to control the game audio on this slider. A lot of people run the game way too loud. They complain that everything's too loud in my face. You just need to turn it down. Run it lower than you think you should. I promise you'll hear more. This is the normal audio volume. So, you have separate control over both, and then this is the master volume out to your headphones. A couple other little settings we need to set before we leave. We'll go up to menu here. We'll check auto restart all. We'll check system tray, and we'll check run on Windows startup. So, we'll leave that open here. That is again, all system tray, run on Windows startup. While we're in here, we're going to go down to system settings. You can also get to that just by single clicking the A here. We're going to want WDM buffering to set to 256. Now, if for some reason this stays locked to 1056 for you, you need to go into the A1 list and try it under KS. Now, if you see here, I don't have my dongle as a KS device. So, that means if I'm getting 1056 as the sample rate here, and there's no KS, my only option is MME, and this is really quite high latency, and I don't recommend it. If you can't get WDM or KS, I would really recommend trying a different port, trying a different dongle, trying a different DAC. But, hopefully WDM works for you, and you do get that 256 sample buffer rate. This also might be something that's nice to pin to the taskbar. You can always come down here and launch it just to control volume. Once you have all that set up, and it is set to run in the tray, you can close Voicemeeter. Now, for Wave Link users, I don't have a Wave Link device here with me at my setup right now, but it's super easy. Uninstall Voicemeeter, go into Wave Link, and add Art Tune as an input. Control that volume in there, and that's how you will control it. You don't need Voicemeeter routing. Wave Link will handle the Art Tune routing to both your stream mix and your headphones. While you still have the sounds Windows open, you just need to make sure that normal audio is set as your default device. You need to use normal audio as your default device because that's going to play audio with no tune, and then in apps and games that you want to apply the tune to, you'll assign them either through volume mixer, which I'll show you, or through the game settings themselves to Art Tune so they do use that pathway. Okay, that is it for Voicemeeter users for now. We're going to just take a second. We're going to talk to the Sound Blaster and approved audio devices users. There might be more devices added to this in the future, so keep an eye out on the channel for those specific guides. But today, we're going to talk about the G8 because I haven't covered that in a video before. There's an older video on the channel about the GC7. The guide is going to be very similar to that. The most important difference that everybody misses, the G8 has two USB ports on it, and both must be connected to the PC if you want to use it as intended. The intention here is that USB 1 is the 7.1 device that is capable of the tune, and USB 2 is your stereo device that is your normal audio device. USB 1 is the game side of the mix knob, and USB 2 is the voice side of the mix knob. The two audio endpoints on the Sound Blaster are both named speakers. The descriptions are just USB 1 and USB 2. It's kind of confusing. So, we're back in PowerShell. It's ran as administrator, and you can paste in that same script link, or just press up if you've already ran it before, and hit enter. Now, this is a great opportunity cuz I still have the VoiceMeeter setup installed on this PC to show you the uninstall path. So, I'll press three, and I'll press enter, and it's going to back up your Equalizer APO folder. If it doesn't find a ART Tune DB library on the PC. If it does find that library that we're going to set up here in a little bit, it'll back that up instead. But, it's going to run through, it's going to uninstall all the different things we have here, clean the registry. It'll prompt you to restart. When it does that, you will want to press Y and hit enter, which we'll do here in a moment. We'll let it run its course. It's going to clean everything off the PC. This is also a great way if you don't like it, if you're unsatisfied with it, or if you just want to start from the beginning, you can use this pathway to do that. It's asking if you want to leave the Loudness EQ control panel. If you don't like the tune, keep the control panel. It's going to help a lot by enabling Loudness EQ on devices that don't have it by default. For these purposes, so I can show you a full setup, we are going to remove it, so we're going to press Y and enter. It says uninstall complete, tells you what it removed. Do you want to restart to completely remove the drivers? You'll hit Y and enter, and you'll let the PC restart. We'll come back here once it's back up. All right, so let's start off the Sound Blaster or other approved devices path. Like I said, I have two new ones that I think I have found. I got to test them. Those videos will be live later this year on the channel. First thing we're going to do for Sound Blaster users, we're going to hit the Windows key where to search PowerShell, right click, run as administrator. You're going to paste that script link in [music] again, or since I just did the uninstall, press up on the keyboard, hit enter, and again, we're right back into the script. This time we're going to hit two and we're going to hit enter cuz that's going to be for the Sound Blaster setup. Now it's going to ask you which device. Right now there's only one option, it's the GC7 or the G8. We'll hit one and enter. Again, we're going to get the fresh start prompt or the advanced. I really recommend everybody just do the fresh start prompt. So what? It's going to remove whatever's installed, have you restart, and then just run it again because if there's nothing installed, you press one and you do fresh start, nothing existing, it's just going to start downloading all the different pieces it needs. All right, it, like the last script, will end on an action box here, action required. The APO installer close, then it says hit yes or okay, okay, enter when ready. We'll press enter. It'll proceed to the next action box. Again, Hesuvi needs manual confirmation, a dialogue. Click yes. Let it do its thing. We'll wait for two windows to pop up. We'll close both of them once they show. Close the browser, close Hesuvi, come back here when it's done and press enter. We're ready. We're going to download a couple other things, the HRIR we need. It's going to write the config.txt. And now it's downloading and installing the Creative App. If you don't already have it installed for your DAC. Like I said, we're going to set this up for the G8, which is a little bit more involved than the GC7. When you download the Creative App and run it for the GC7, all you're going to need to do is really update the firmware before you do anything. With the G8, it's a little bit different and we'll go over it here in a second. I've already updated the firmware on both USBs. You'll need to do that first and then do the driver, but we'll go ahead and start with that. All right, setup complete. It says it installed Replug Hesuvi Creative App APO and LEQ control panel. Like the other setup pathway, it's going to want you to press S to open everything you need. It's going to open the Creative App. It's going to open the Art Tune devices webpage where you can see how to set up the GC7 or the G8 in text format, and it's going to open the LEQ control panel so we can do all of the changes that we need from there. So, we're going to hit S, we're going to hit enter, and everything we need will open here. There we go. The Creative app is a little slow to go. Now, this is the first important part. You're going to see I have a driver update. If you see the driver update first, don't do it first. We're going to close this. We're going to do it in a second. You might have a firmware update. So, you go to settings, firmware update, want to do that first, then you'll go to USB 2 by clicking this little arrow. It's very unintuitive, and you'll do the same thing. Settings, check for a firmware update. Once that's all good and done, you can come back to device one, and now you can install the driver. Click install now. We're going to click through. We're going to let it do its thing. We will need to run the script again after we restart, but it's okay. We'll just do the advanced mode, which is not going to uninstall everything. Next, next, install. You absolutely need these drivers, and you absolutely need to restart after they're installed. So, we'll let them do their thing. Once they're installed, we will restart the PC, and I will see you guys back here when that is done. Okay, we got the drivers installed. We restarted. We're back in an admin in PowerShell window. We're going to hit the script again. We're going to go two for approved devices. We're going to hit one, and then we're going to go advanced because we already know that we have everything installed. Okay, we're back at the end of the script again. We're going to hit S to open all of the windows that we need, and the first thing we're going to jump into is the Creative app and just make sure everything's set up in here. We'll click that, but G8, you have the whole guide here, which you'll always have access to. It just tells you to switch everything off and mute a couple things. You can always come back to this reference, but we're going to go over it real quick. Effects off, equalizer off, direct mode off, scout mode off. Mixer here, we're going to turn down SPDIF in and mute it. Turn down SPDIF in and mute it. There was some whistling that people were getting. I think the firmware updates that you would have done fixed it, but just to be safe, if you're not using them, turn them down. We'll go back. We'll click this little arrow here, USB 2 here. Let that initialize cuz we just installed the driver, and then we can go back to USB 1, and we can close the Creative app. Now that we're done with the website, we can close those as well. And we're left here with the LEQ control panel. From the drop down we'll find the USB one [music] from Sound Blaster. They're both called speakers, unfortunately. USB one here. And the first thing we're going to want to do is go to EAPO device selector. We'll click it. We'll find the Sound Blaster USB one speakers. Select it, check it, check troubleshooting. From the drop down we'll choose LFX GFX. We'll hit okay. Two green checks, we'll hit okay. And then we'll also install LEQ. It'll give you the EAPO warning. Ignore it, hit continue. Let it do its thing. It'll install. And once it's installed it should prompt you saying, "Hey, EAPO is on here. You broke it. Do you want to fix it?" After the test. So we'll test it. We'll make sure the green bars hit the top. They do. We'll hit yes. EAPO needs to be restored. Do you want to? Yes. We'll open device selector. Now, once more, we'll come over here. We'll select Sound Blaster G8 USB one speakers. Select, check, troubleshooting drop down. And we'll go to LFX GFX. We'll hit okay. Double green checks and we're good to go. We'll hit okay here. With both those things done, we'll come back and we'll hit sound settings, which will just take you back into this window if you don't have it open. The first thing we're going to do is we're going to go to USB one here on the Sound Blaster. Select it, click configure, 7.1, next, next. This by default is not checked and it needs to be, so check both these boxes, click next, finish. We're good to go there. We'll double click this. We'll rename it to Art Tune Game because it's on the game side of the mix knob. Make sure loudness EQ is enabled. And this is all good to go. We'll hit apply, we'll hit okay. And then we'll come down to the USB two device. We'll double click it. We'll rename it to normal audio {parentheses} voice because it's the voice side of the mix knob. We'll hit apply, we'll hit okay. And we want to right click this and set as default, and right click and set as default communication. Very important because this is our normal audio device. All right, it wouldn't be the Bible video if I didn't show the GC 7 as well. So I hooked mine up and we're going to go through that as well. We're just going to go ahead and launch the script again. We will go through option two because it is an tune approved device, which we might get more of here in the future. One, cuz it's a Sound Blaster, and one fresh start, because we are starting from a clean slate here. It will go ahead and download everything it needs. Same deal, we get to the action part, where it says close the device selector, and just go through the prompts. We'll hit okay, okay, and enter when we're ready. Another one here, the Hisui one, it says you need to interact, click yes. We'll click yes. We'll let it do the extraction. Two windows will pop up. We will close both of them. Closing the browser, closing Hisui, enter when we're ready. Last couple pieces it's going to download. Okay, again, we made it to the end of the script, so we'll hit S Creative app first here. This is the most tedious part, so we'll go into the devices, we'll get the guide for the GC7. This will be a great thing to review if you ever need to, but we're just going to go through it. A real quick thing that I didn't cover on the G8. This little pill down here defines where the audio is being output to. The left being the headphone port, this speaker icon being the optical out or the line out. And unique to the GC7, you can do both at the same time. I'm dual PC, so I use line out. If you're single PC, and you have your headphones plugged into the DAC, you'll use the headphone signal. Once that's all set up, effects off, equalizer off, scout mode off, we will close that. We are good to go there. We don't need the website anymore. So, now we're back in the good old LEQ control panel. We have our speakers device, which is the 7.1 device on the GC7 selected. The headset device will be the stereo device. We'll select this here, and we'll click EAPO device selector. In here, we will find speakers Sound Blaster GC7 selected. Check it. Troubleshooting, L effects GFX okay. Double green check boxes what we want. We'll hit okay. Again, we're back in here. You can see it now says EAPO active. We'll install LEQ on it. It says EAPO's detected, that's fine. We'll hit continue. We'll let it do its thing. Once LEQ installs successfully, you'll get this pop-up here asking you to check it. So, we'll right click, and we'll test. You'll see the green bars touch the top, that's what we want. Did it go full green repeatedly? We'll click yes. And it says EAPO needs to be reconfigured. Do you want to open device selector now? We'll click yes. Again, we'll come into here, we'll select the Sound Blaster, we'll check it. Troubleshooting, LFX GFX, hit okay. Double green check is what we want. We are good to go there. Now, if you've closed this window for some reason, you can always open it here. We're going to want to come into here and we'll take this headset device, we'll right click it, we'll make sure it's both the default communication and the default device. We'll just double click it and we're going to rename it to normal audio. This is the voice side of the mix knob. We'll hit apply and then the speakers here on the GC7 we'll hook configure. It's on 7.1. We'll want to make sure all boxes are checked on all these windows. We'll click finish. We'll double click it, we'll name it Artoon {parentheses} game. We'll make sure loudness EQ is checked. It is cuz it is over here. We'll hit apply, we'll hit okay. And then if you hit refresh over here, you'll see now it has the name on it, which is what we want. I know that was a lot, I know it was pretty detailed, but I wanted to be as detailed as possible because this should be the last video we need for a long time, especially with the script and this new LEQ control panel app. Now, we're all back on square one, whether you're a G8 user, a GC7 user, or just a Voice Meter or Wavelink user. Everybody has the core foundation of the tune setup. You have your Artoon device, you have your normal audio device. Next, we need to grab the library and I'll show you how to do that right now. In addition to downloading and installing all the software, the script also created a new folder on your PC and it also even made a desktop shortcut for you. So, if you see there's an Artoon DB shortcut, if you double click it, it'll open. For those of you without desktop shortcuts or if we're missing it, it's in Equalizer APO config Artoon DB. If we go up, you'll see nice little icon there as well. Inside here, this is where we're going to live. We have an empty library folder which we're going to fix here in a second. We have a link to my website, if you ever need to get there, it'll be relevant here in the future, I promise. Some icons you're not going to mess with, some Equalizer APO stuff that we'll get to in a second. A shortcut for the control panel which we now know and love. What we want here is we want to start with the Artoon DB link. Now, this will take us to my GitHub, which is going to be the home of the new settings. I will continually update this, I'll push releases out, I'll tell you what's in in releases, and I'll keep it all up-to-date here. Much easier to keep track of than videos and descriptions and all of this. So, this will be the home for all the new settings. It'll look a little bit more fleshed out when y'all see it because I'm recording this video just while I finish all of this. In here, you'll see some scripts. The script that I'm running is here as well. What we're after are the releases here on the right side. So, we'll click this and we want the initial release.zip. We'll click it. We'll hit save. We'll let it download and then we will open it here. Inside there's a library folder. Super easy. All you need to do here is drag this to here. Copy it in. And now if we double click this and we go to library, we have all of the settings from my GitHub imported here. Now, as you can see, I have the old BO6 settings, the PS5 BO6 settings, which only work if you have a capture card or if you're using Chiaki, which I have videos on on this channel. The BO7 and the BO6 settings are identical. I just created new game category. So, in the future going forward, I can release new settings with ease and I'll feel six settings like I said. Inside of Battlefield 6, you'll see there's a season zero, which is the pre-launch or the early release tune that I made and then season one, which was the red sect tune that I got to work on. Well, most of you are here for probably is the BO7 tune. So, that's where we're going to start. If you were starting from scratch, didn't drag the library over, you just relaunch your PC, it's the Art Tune DB. We'll go into library here and we'll go into the game that we want. Right now, we only have the season zero stuff, which is the launch stuff. Now, in here there are a whole bunch of files. There are a whole bunch of shortcuts. The first thing we want to do is we want to generate an EQ for our headsets. We Our good old friend Gadget Tech. We'll double click this. We'll open it. It'll take us to his website and you're going to want to find your headset. So, we could search Tipsy. She doesn't have it, but let's see if somebody else has it. Tipsy M1 from Paul Wasabi. So, we'll just EQ for that. So, now we have the EQ loaded up. We'll need to go to Equalizer and we're going to upload a target here. But, let's go back to the folder. We're going to use BO7 Target Season Zero here. So, we'll go back. We'll upload target. We'll go to desktop. We'll double click Art Tune DB. It'll take us in there. We'll go to library, and then we'll go to BO7 season zero, and we'll find the BO7 target season zero. There's the target, there's the measurement for the headset. We'll hit auto EQ, and we will export this. Now, hopefully it gives you a way to rename it. If it doesn't give you a rename option here, I'll just say it didn't give me the rename option, right? We'll click the folder thing to find it in the folder, and we'll right click and we'll rename. So, what we want to rename this to is just something that you can find it with. So, Tipsy M1 BO7 {underscore} season zero. Just something. Don't call it filters, you need to be able to find it. This is super super important. So, we have it in the downloads folder. We also have the AutoTune DB library season zero for BO7 folder here. We're going to go into EQ. You have the target only, which you should only use if you cannot find your headset in the Squiglink database. If you can't find your headset in the Squiglink database, honestly, you should probably get a new headset. Mid-edit art here, I'm realizing that some headphones that you're not going to be able to find, I do have measurements for some early releases, some things that I've found through my digging. So, I'm going to add a folder to the GitHub repo here called measurements inside of the library folder. In there, I'm going to include any text file measurements that I have that you'll be able to upload to Squiglink. You can do it right next to the upload target button that I show you in the guide. It's called upload FR. Back to what we're doing here. So, we'll open this downloads. I am going to copy this file into the EQ folder inside of BO7 season zero, because this is where we're going to keep all the headset EQs that we combine with a target. That's loaded in there, so we are good to go on that front. We are done with Squiglink, so we can close the browser. Now, a real quick note about these EQ files that we're making versus the old Peace presets we were making. The Peace presets had that preamp at the top that you could set back to zero if it was too quiet. That preamp is located inside of this file. So, if we open the file, you'll see at the top there's preamp minus 8.5. What the preamp does is when we're doing the corrective EQ, it'll push some frequencies so high that they'll clip. So, this preamp takes the highest frequency down back to the normal level. But, it's going to reduce it by 8 decibels, which is not nothing. If you find yourself needing more volume, the easiest thing to do to not lose it is just put a hashtag in front of it, and that comments it out, right? So, now that's not going to be applied. So, I'll hit save. I'll also show you a different way to do this once we get into equalize your APO later. What I'm revealing here in a week or two will also have a much easier way to control this. I've called it clip guard, and it's actually just going to be a toggle switch. You can turn it on and off super easy just like Peace. Okay, so we're done in the EQ part of here. We can go back up to season zero. We are back in the root. The next thing that we want to do is we want to load the preset for Hisuwi, which is included in here as well. It's super easy. You can just double click it. Sometimes you won't get this pop-up, so it's hard to know if it actually loads. What I usually like to do is right-click and open, and that way I know for certain it loads. Now, in the season folder for the game that you're in, you're also going to find this text file here called LEQ release time two. This is nothing that you need to use. Think of this just as a post-it note. So, this is telling you for season zero, the release time for loudness EQ should be two. So, we can go back to the root here. We'll open the loudness EQ control panel tool, and we'll put it over here. So, it says we'll go back so I can show you library BO7, season zero, loudness EQ release time two. So, we'll drag this over, and we'll set it to two. So, when I play BO7, I want it set to that. In the LEQ control panel app, when you drag the slider, there's no apply, there's nothing. It instantly changes the value. You can toggle loudness EQ off on that switch. You can toggle it back on, and it'll go back to that same release time. Again, this doesn't load into the app or anything. It's just a post-it note to tell you what release time this season calls for. While we're in here and talking about release time, two is going to be a much faster reaction time. It's an instantaneous reaction of the compressor, whereas somewhere over here at seven it's going to take a long time to react. So, it's always going to be compressing the notes for each season that I think are going to be in here. You can change this, your mileage may vary. Okay, we have loudness EQ set, we have Hisuvi configured. The next thing that we need to do is place everything in place inside of Equalizer APO. The files for the EQ as well as the EQ for your headset. We can close this. You can choose whether you want to exit or minimize to tray. I'm just going to click okay. In each of the seasons, you'll see that there's a shortcut to Equalizer APO Config Editor, because that's where we're going to swap out the profiles. Where again, we're in BO7 Season 0. So, we're going to go ahead and open Configuration Editor. You can ignore this error always. It's always going to pop up cuz it's going to say Equalizer APO is not in your default device. You don't want it on your default device cuz Art Tune should never be your default device. Click no here. You'll see this is the template config file that is made when you run the script. There's a new structure for this config. This is the pre-Hisuvi file. This is what comes before the Hisuvi step where that profile is loaded, and it's already pre-browsed to the library here. So, this is pre-Hisuvi. We're going to click this little folder icon. Again, we're doing BO7 Season 0. I'm going to find BO7 Season 0 pre, and I'm going to hit open. Now, that is loaded into the profile. Do not remove Hisuvi. Don't touch this. Don't touch any of it. Just leave it alone. If it's not broken, don't fix it. Great motto. Next, use the squig link and game season target EQ to generate an EQ for your headset plus game. We already did that. So, we will browse here. We're going to BO7. Again, we're Season 0. EQ. Here is the Tipsy M1. Hit open. Now, while we're talking about this, remember we commented out that preamp. So, if I go here to open and I go to Art Tune DB library BO7 Season 0 EQ and open the Tipsy EQ, you'll see here's the preamp and it's turned off. When I typed in that little hash, it turned off the preamp. You can also open that file in here and turn it on or turn it off. It's going to make it quieter when it's on, louder when it's off. We'll go back to the config. So, now we have that EQ loaded. The last thing that we want to do is the post Hisuvi file. Choose the post file from game season folder in our tune DB. Library browse, BO7, season zero, post, open. Now, you will do this every time you load a profile, no matter what. Even if the post or pre file's empty, load it this way so you know you're doing it right every time. Now, you'll see it's set to default up here. This doesn't actually change any of the settings. It just shows the visualization. And that's pretty much it. You've loaded your game profile. That means every time you switch, you need to load the Hisuvi preset. You need to come into the configuration editor, which we already had open. Click no, and you'll want to load the appropriate game and season pre, game and season headphone EQ, game and season post. Now, let's say I'm going to go play Battlefield 6. We're going to change all of these files. I'm going to go over to this Art Tune DB folder here just so we have a visual. I'm going to go up to library. I'm going to go to Battlefield 6 and we're going to season 1 cuz that's what we're after. Doesn't matter the order that you do this in. I'll launch the Battlefield season 1 Hisuvi profile. I'll go to the Gadget Detective Squiggling here. Uh we'll do the M1 again, Tipsy M1. We got Paul Wasabi's here again. Again, equalizer upload target. We are going to go back up in the library to Battlefield 6 season 1. We're going to grab the target here, Battlefield 6 target season 1. Open. We're going to hit auto EQ. We will export. Again, if you have this rename option, do it now. If not, rename the file afterwards, BF6 season 1. We'll hit okay there. I'll click this folder. I'm going to copy this, and then I'm going to go to EQ and I'm going to paste this in here. So, now I have my M1 EQ inside of my Battlefield 6 folder. I can go to notepad. Again, I can comment this out if I would like to, which I typically like to. I'll save that file, so now that's turned off. We've already loaded this. Now, we can go into Equalizer APO here, config editor. No. Now, we'll start with the pre file. We'll go to browse, library, Battlefield 6, season 1, pre, open. The headphone EQ now, library, Battlefield 6, season 1, EQ M1, open. And then the post file, browse, library, Battlefield 6, season 1, post, open. And then if you look, LEQ release time three. So, for Battlefield 6, for season 1 and season 2, we want it on release time three, so I can bump this up, and then I can close that. Now, we are fully updated to the Battlefield 6 tune. As you can see, Battlefield 6 season 1, Battlefield 6 season 1, Battlefield 6 season 1. This is the new system, super modular. And in a week or two, you'll see why we've done it this way. It's about to get so much easier. The logic's the same as previous releases. The pre Hesuvi file does some magic to the 7.1 channels before they get mixed down to stereo. Hesuvi mixes that 7.1 coming from the game down to stereo. The EQ for your headset with a target EQ is applied, and then the post file is going to take that stereo signal and shape it just a little bit more using different frequencies, and that is the chain of command. We'll go over in-game settings. I realize as I'm making this video, I'll also include a text document in the library that will have a record of this, so you can always go back to what my recommended settings are, and what I feel are the must-dos, and what are the you can mess with. We'll also cover them right now. And every time I introduce some settings for a new game, I will go over in the video what those settings should be. Those that have been around for a while should probably know. The biggest thing in all the games that I set up, master volume and effects volume should always be 100. I'm designing things for the plugins to work a very certain way. Any lower and they won't sound right. I also leave dialogue at 100 because the COD tune does seem to handle that pretty well and turns it down. All of these at 100. The biggest, most important thing is the game sound device. Some games allow you to choose this in the game. Battlefield doesn't, we'll go over it a different way. COD does. So, the biggest thing here, whether you're on the Sound Blaster, whether you're on the Voice Meter setup, you need to choose Art Tune here. You'll choose it from the list and then under speaker output with headphone enhanced mode turned off, it must be off, you'll get a 7.1 option. That tells the game, "Hey, this device is surround sound, output that." That allows my system to process the audio, GSX to take it, make it stereo, so you can hear it in your headset. Next is audio mix. I prefer headphones bass cut. I feel like it cuts through a lot of the streaks and the rumbles and the stuff that you just don't need to hear in the game. This is the, if you don't like it, you can change it field. So, feel free to try what you'd like. I will say Sucker Punch isn't magic, it just makes everything louder. COD players seem to just like things louder. If that's your thing, go for it. Asymmetrical hearing compensation off, mono audio off. Some people have this on, I don't know why. God help your souls. Reduce tinnitus sound, I keep this on. Hit markers are personal preference. Voice chat, this part for voice chat output, this has nothing to do with your mic. This is where you hear in-game comms. This needs to go to the normal audio device or to another audio device on your GSX LR or on the Wave Link, what have you. Just not Art Tune, because if you tune voice chat or if you tune Discord, it's going to sound wrong. So, on this PC, on my Sound Blaster setup, I'm going to choose normal audio. This would also be the normal audio device in Voice Meter if you followed the script setup that way. The microphone is going to be whatever your microphone is. For me, that's coming back into the Sound Blaster here, and that is pretty much it for the settings inside of COD. Now, Battlefield's a little different, it doesn't have the option in game to set it to an audio device. So, we're going to do that before we do anything. You do need to have the game open. If you hit the Windows key while you're in it, right click here, open volume mixer, you'll see Battlefield here. From the output device selection. You'll want to choose your Arctis device, whether that's the Sound Blaster or the Hi-Fi cable, choose it here. You can minimize or close it. I'm going to minimize it for now. Master volume, sound effects volume, those are at 100. I turn off music just like I do in COD. I left the VO at 50, that's personal preference. UI SFX, also personal preference. Hit indicators, personal preference, doesn't matter. Now, sound system, this is only going to work at 7.1 if it's set to 7.1. If you change off of it, it's going to default to something else. So, just make sure Arctis is set to 7.1 and then 7.1 here. I like high dynamics personally with my tune. It hasn't been workshopped since season 1, so let me know how it sounds. If enough people want another tune, I will update it for season 2. But for me, high dynamics was the cleanest and the clearest. Audio in background, that's personal preference. I have turned on use external output, that lets you use a different device than what the game's assigned to for audio output. That output device is normal audio. That way I can hear the comms in game without the tune being applied. Stereo balance, tinnitus SFX volume, and tinnitus relief frequency, I didn't really mess with. I didn't find it to help that much. Now, this is usually the part in the video where I show you guys a bunch of gameplay samples, but I have just been so locked in with this and the project that I'm bringing to you in a week or two that I have not had any time to play anything at all. That's why I'm excited for Avalon to drop and to get in there and to cook again. So, if you wanted to see what this sounds like, go to any stream or watch any video of any competitor that's running the tune. Shifty, Hisoka, Almond, any of the big names, they're most likely running the tune. Ask them in their chat, it's the same BO6 settings that they've been on for a long time. Avalon drops, we will get them uploaded. So, if you want to check out the settings, most big competitors are running them. I know it's been a while, but I hope this redesign and this kind of automation really helps a lot of people get in the door and try the tune that haven't been able to. It also gives me a foundation and a basis to make tunes for other games, cuz now we have the pre-post Hisoka system with the different target EQs. We have the library on the GitHub. I can update all of that as we go and this next project I'm about to drop, I'm super excited to share because it's going to be even better than this. I When I said that this is the tip of the iceberg, I meant it. I don't want to spill too much, but like I said at the beginning, if you're watching this video after March 12th, 2026, I highly recommend you check the link at the top of the video description. Just wanted to take a second to acknowledge that none of this would be possible without all of these open source freeware and donation ware apps. Vincent Burel with the high-fi cable and voicemeeter apps, those are donation ware. You can support him, please do. Equalizer APO, Hisuwi, the auto EQ app, everybody owns the squiglink website. Thank you all so much. Links down below to support them. [music] As always, I've got my Discord, discord.gg/artistswar, which I'll link down in the description below. It's a community of 17,000 people. People try to help each other. I try to comment, but we're about to do a big revamp here with this next project that we're about to drop. So, make you sure you join there. I will have links down below to appointments one-on-one to help you set this audio up. Don't rush to do that. Give me a week or two, wait for this next video to drop, and I'm sure it'll be worth your time, and it'll be more money well spent than on a single appointment with me. If you found any of this helpful, as always, subscribe, like the video, click the bell so you know when I upload another one. I'm going to start being live once this next project comes out over on Twitch, twitch.tv/art_is_war. I have my new website up and running, artistswar.io. There's going to be a lot of new information coming up on there. There's some Easter eggs on there. If you look, you might be the first to know about some stuff. So, until the next video, which I'm really excited to bring you guys, I'll catch y'all later. Peace.