Brightness Fix + What's Different - BO7 Audio Tune Update

Hey YouTube, already here with a quick update. I heard all your comments, and the audio is a little bit too tinny and bright, too treble heavy. Something bugged when I was doing the exports, the wrong target went out, and an old version of the pre-Hisuvis went out, so they were a little bit too bright. I have modified those. If you're an app user, you probably already get a library update. If you haven't, go ahead and check that inside your app. If you're a free user, you can check the GitHub. I have updated the zip there. You can download it, overwrite the library. What you will have to do, app users, delete your current profile and remake the profile for season 3, cuz it'll reference all the new files. For the free users that are using the manual configuration, all you need to do is take the new target EQ that's going to be in that new library, go to Swig Link, upload it, make the new target, download it, and use that instead of the old one. A couple other notes while I'm here. This is a very different tune than the last. It's a totally different approach. It's dynamic. I hear a lot of people saying that, "Oh, my footsteps are louder." They are some of the time, but it's only when it's really dead silent. It's adapting live to your sounds on the center channel, big things in the game in the LFE channel, and it's always adapting to what's going on around you. Just give it some time. That's the big note. Even season pros that are switching to this need a couple days to adjust to it. It's not an instant I know where everybody is thing. The tune will never be that. We're playing a game of odds here. When we're playing in 7.1, you have eight channels of audio to work with, way better than the game's typical stereo. We can make a lot of decisions about how audio goes out, but it's still just a game of odds. If the game engine does not produce an audio queue, I can't tune that. Another thing I didn't mention is you are going to lose the announcer like enemy UAV overhead, all those streak announcers. It is a cost of doing business lowering the center channel and using that for data purely. You will still, however, hear players in game their character shout, "Grenade!" which is really useful if you throw a grenade into the room, you can actually hear where they're coming from. It's also going to sound different because this tune is a lot more light-handed than the previous one, and that dynamic nature makes it seem like it's not doing as much, but in the thick of it, I promise you'll hear more. You can switch back to the season zero preset if you'd like to see. It's going to sound a lot flatter after you play on the new one for a while. Another thing I see people struggle a lot with is saying the game is too loud. It's simply a volume level. You Some people cannot just run the art tune volume in Voicemeeter at 100. [clears throat] If you're using the app, there's a slider in the bottom right that you can use to adjust the Art Tune volume. If you're not using the app, you can open Voice Meter and control that left-most slider that's Art Tune. If you're using a Sound Blaster, you can use the mix knob to change the balance. But it's just important to find a place where the loudest thing, which is typically streaks, or I usually use the parachute's wind animation when I'm dropping in to kind of set a level, and then I never touch it. That is as loud as I want it, and it's right at the bitter edge of where I can stand it. Once again, I will stress there is no difference between the free configuration and the paid app outside of convenience. I have a 9800X3D, and the motherboards that come with this generation of AMD, the AM5 motherboards, do seem to have a lot of picky USB issues, specifically with audio. If I plug my Sound Blaster into the wrong port, it will freeze my entire PC, it'll crash the game, it's crazy. So, if you have an AM5 motherboard, that's the 7800X3D, the 9800X3D, any of those, their B650 boards, their X870 boards, you might have to play a little USB roulette to get it to work. If you're on that kind of motherboard and you find yourself experiencing crackling, go ahead and try a different USB port. Like I've said before, the modularity of this tune in the app and how it ported over to the free video makes it so much easier for me to iterate, so keep an eye on the GitHub, keep an eye on my Twitter, join the Discord so you know when I upload or change things, discord.gg/artiswar, and until the next video, I'll catch you later. I hope this is helpful. Peace.