Note: I just want to make one thing clear, at the 2:40 mark. If you are using a GOXLR, DAC, or other external output source, you DO NOT need to click on "Install using SFX/EFX". You DO however need to complete the install process on whatever your output source is, you just don't need to click on the troubleshooting option. At any point in time if you need to install or uninstall from a particular output source. Just go to Program Files>Equalizer APO>Configurator and click on or off the check boxes. Correction: The first time the configuration editor opens, it wont be blank; It will show 3 items: Preamplification, Include, & Graphic EQ. Delete all 3 by clicking the red minus icon on the left. Then follow my instructions. Tip: As I state in the video, you can adjust the two peaking filters to your liking. Specifically the one at 270hz, I recommend fine tuning to that to your liking anywhere from 100hz to 270hz.

@tobe_5392

2 жыл бұрын

hello, thanks for the video. Unfortunately I can't get it activated with my goxlr. I did everything as per your instructions. do you have another idea?

@bavarianpain7425

Жыл бұрын

Hello I am Using a Soundblasterx G5 and Beyerdynamic MMX300, for mixing the voicemeeter Potato. I installd the apo on Output A1 and on the sb output device. The sound is strange… very dull and reverberant. How can i fix that issue ?

@DaSwissy

Жыл бұрын

I use a G633 headset.... I have some Realtek options available. So do i Do the APO stuff on the Realtek speaker or on my Headset? I cant wrap my head around all this tech savvy stuff....

@ThomasJerkins

Жыл бұрын

I setup my equalizer APO twice. It seems that every time I turn off my PC and come back a few hours or even a day later I can't open the APO, also TDR will not open I'm my editor.

@invest_9361

24 күн бұрын

I installed APO and Peace GUI but cannot open APO by itself? I tried searching for the file but it just runs the installer APO again, any suggestions? Is there a way to open Peace GUI with audio plugins?

You are by far the best teacher for soft soft . It's very complicated at first - overwhelming, actually - but, you make it doable for

Ur the man! Also a very good teacher and a easy voice to follow! MW2/Warzone 2.0 eq would be insane!

Dude I have searched countless hours for equalizer APO settings for various fps games...none of them really wowed me til today. I knew it would from the get go because your the only person that had everyone get their headsets to a baseline eq in order for the filters to work properly....every other game audio youtuber is just throwing out random eqs and half of them arent even telling people "this is pretty meaningless to you because we have different headsets" lol everything you've said was backed by numbers! If you make more of these vids for other fps games i promise that you'll make a lot of people happy. Keep up the good work!!!!

i came here from one of your comments on twitter, this is really cool thanks

we need a MW2 video asap this is great work thank you

@RonSwanson198

Жыл бұрын

same audio engine lol no need

I can finally hear people in the Gulag! Really appreciate these tips. Super helpful 🙌🏻

Thank you for your complete and comprehensive training. Very good!

I'm surprised you don't have more subs, your videos are very well done. Keep doing you thing bro.

🙌🏻maybe now I can finally hear some footsteps!

This video is so underrrated. Even thought the video is 9months old, just wanted to comment and send you my support by letting you know how much this fixed my headset (HyperX Cloud 2s). Actually don't have go deaf from gunshots anymore and can actually hear footsteps. Thank you so much! Audio in general is also much more pleasant to listen to and a lot more neutral/natural-sounding

Thank you thank you thank you for this!! Best audio video - very clear and concise!

Really helpful, explained how to do everything down to a T appreciate u making this

Just the video I needed, thanks dude!!!

Dude, this is amazing. Thank you.

I was wondering why it was making my headphones louder instead of just my mic louder, you helped me fix that problem at 2:25. I was searching for a fix for HOURS ON END Thank you so much

u deserve at least 10k subscribers amazing job

Literally the goat thank you so much

when i typed in soft soft tutorial i did not expect it to be tNice tutorials good thank you so much aaaaaaa

Great Video

i dont play warzone but this video was very helpful and informative. thanks buddy!

thank you for this tutorial. helped a lot

Please make one for Warzone 2 as well, this came in clutch for me during Warzone 1!

TNice tutorials was excellent man, thank you so much! I'm a 40yr old noob that's always wanted to try making soft and never got around to it. I'm

Really appreciate tNice tutorials. Thankyou brother

Don't matter how long you take, long as you do it cause you love to

very nice video presentation - instead of restarting the computer - there are ways to restart the windows audio service using the command line - or the services control panel and you can make a shortcut to the commands net start audiosrv net stop audiosrv in a .cmd file on the properties of the shortcut - select advanced - start as administrator

TNice tutorials guy's tutorial is more understanding than the others

dude tNice tutorials is super good! subbed

More power on your youtube paps. Salamat!

Thank you.

This is an INSANE video. Thank you so much. This deserves so many views. The difference is mind blowing. Is there any way to support you?

@SomeoneVEVO

Жыл бұрын

Maybe leave multiple comments, to try to boost this video in algorithm? LMK if you're against it tho

@iLLmatic240

Жыл бұрын

Do you know if this works for warzone2?

When I've started producing I personally have downloaded most of the plugins from there, never had problems with virus, malwares and

Hey, I'm just starting to get into making soft and tNice tutorials 17 minute video helped a LOT MORE than those one hour long tutorials out

Awesome tutorial! What was your process for finding the footstep freq to boost?

Thanks man :)

great video! just got my pc37x headset and this helped! would like an updated video if you've found something better!

Good stuff

You are amazing. You deserve more subscriber for your hard work. Never find explanation of such things. My final question is, should I turn off dolby atmos for headphone/ windows sonic for headphone in windows 10, spatial sound option?

Thanks for the video! I also use pc38x. A few questions, Are you making an updated settings video for Warzone 2? Will this run automatically or do I need to have it open during gameplay for it to work? I used your settings to my installed Realtek audio but I just got a DACAMP, do I need to reinstall it for my DACAMP and create a new config or can I use the dropdown menu with the same config? Cheers

Hey, thanks for this! Do you think it is still valid for WZ3? We are fassing foot steps issues currently and the quick help was to enable loudness equalization. Unfortunately a lof of people, including me, having problems with WIN 11 to enable this. Any comment on that? would your settings here still be better for me?

Yo ik I'm late but this is amazing I just yesterday found out about eq being used bc in modern warfare 2 EVERYTHING is to loud and I can't hear footsteps. This helped a ton if you could do one for MW2 that would be great 👍🏾 thanks alot

@Shroomskyoffical

Жыл бұрын

I 2nd this

@Shroomskyoffical

Жыл бұрын

Although I'm sure you could apply this exact same eq it would sound good for mw2.

@iLLmatic240

Жыл бұрын

@@Shroomskyofficalyeah I’m trying to figure out if it works for MW2/WZ2

how would this be setup on a dual pc setup with mixamp and goxlr? i installed it on my gaming pc. game pc > to goxlr > to mixamp i set everything in command center to 0 (this is best way to "turn off eq") and i can hear the game and the footsteps but theres a tunnel like sound, could be the under water effect mentioned below.

Would it be ok not to do the Audio compressor? whenever I click embed then locate the file ( the correct one ) the Apo does not respond (not responding). I did it many times. It doesn't work. I religiously follow your every step.

It would be incredible if you could do this for Escape From Tarkov, although it would be a much bigger task considering all of the different audio related gameplay mechanics in that game.

I love soft soft so so so so much!

Would everything below your mic compression settings not also affect those settings?

This guide is really awesome, and I can definitly tell a huge difference. Although - I do feel it squashes the rest of the sounds a bit much (feeling I can't hear directions as well, and distant gunshots are hard to distinguish). So let's say I don't want to squish it as much as the "other" sounds are now, what do I touch? Awesome guide and I really appreciate it!

@derek3dward

10 ай бұрын

If you raise your attack a bit to about 12-15 ms it will allow those transients to come through more

@GWOK Hmm do you know why I keep hearing an echo in Warzone with your settings? Any help is much appreciated overall I can hear pretty good though minus the echo. Mostly outside when shots go off etc... this is when the echo starts. I followed the exact instructions you showed.

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

hmmmm I’m not sure why you would be hearing an echo. Sounds like you have your output sound doubled somewhere

Great video!! works awesome, thanks ! in season 5 now with the "footstep improvement" im having issues hearing people close to me, how can i tweak this? i upped the threshold to -26 but now everything else is louder

hello friend can you help me? anyway great nice video, I wanted to ask you I have the Astro A40 with mixamp do I have to do the same installation as you? I have the same tick sfx? or is there another way?

Hi, I have the Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 2, every time I try to install the apo to the output device it comes up with a error. Anything to help ?

Super clear video, thank you. As I use a Mixamp pro, what EQ setting should I be using on that? And do I want to be using Dolby Atmos? Thanks in advance

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

I would remove any eq settings on your Mixamp pro or just use whatever neutral setting they have. As far as Dolby Atomos surround sound, I would turn that off. I havent personally used it with these settings so you will have to experiment with that.

By any chance do you play Shatterline? Could you maybe guide us through a eq setting for that as well

hello how does the frequencies, gain, and q factor u said in the vid apply to any HS?

I have a question: my friend and I just installed and followed this tutorial, and when we first started playing in Tarkov, it worked great. But when we went into our first raid, my friend instantly crashed within a couple minutes. He reconnected and crashed again a few minutes later, then got killed by a scav when he was reconnecting. The next raid, he and I both instantly crashed at the exact same time. We both turned off the compressor, and closed the application, (my friend uninstalled it but I didn’t), and we didn’t crash anymore. Has anyone else had issues with their Escape From Tarkov crashing after using this? And any recommendations?

i trully dont understand for dual pc my headset is connected to an ampplifier wich is connected to goxlr that is connected tostreaming pc , it works only if i set the capturecard but then i hear a background noise . any help for my weird setup ?> i dont what to chose from my list in my case thanks

Just found this video, amazing stuff! I did try doing something similar myself but apparently APO is too complicated for me and I made a mess haha! Re footsteps frequency, I have watched another quite popular video and the person there exports sound clips from the game of people walking and has noted that there are some footsteps at 60-ish Hz and mainly in the range of 125-190. I was wondering if these ranges are something you might have checked yourself previously? I am going to go with all the settings in this video, but also wondering if there might be some frequencies to better amplify the footsteps - especially considering the multiple updates the game has had so far. Also, on that note, they did work on that issue (footsteps sound) and they apparently adjusted - for NPCs only, not real players!

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video. The most difficult part about EQing for footsteps is that they cover such a wide range of the frequency spectrum. So it becomes a channel trying to decide which frequency is going to sound the best amplified. I think In the future I will release an updated version. My current settings are a high pass filter after the graphic eq with the frequency cutting off everything below 50 hz. Then my two peaking filters set to 240hz with a gain of 5 db and 700hz with a gain of 5db.

@DeadpuII

2 жыл бұрын

@@xGWOK Thanks, I might try that too!

so now having a config file for both my microphone and my speakers, i cant have them both working at the same time. when i turn my speaker eq config on then my mic no longer picks up in discord but when i turn the speaker eq config off then my mic starts picking up again. any idea on what is causing this?

hello, i have hyperx cloud alpha s, install BLACK line in eq and do what u say, but SOUND OF SHOOTS TOO HIGH (((((( how to fix it? too loud ((( can u help me with it ?

I have beyerdynamic dt990 250ohm with a schiit stack (dac+amp). This setup made my sound off like it’s muffled a little bit. Any chance you would know what could be causing that?

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

Try lowering the threshold of the compressor and adjusting the make up gain

if you explain what all those dials and values do execpt the hedset eq it will be helpful for us to costomise it for other games

Ok and do you got a video for how to load a plugin in to the software ?

Great video. Does the compressor add more latency than sound lock?

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

I have not noticed any distinguishable latency. I don’t like soundlock because it’s a limiter, not a compressor. I was not happy with my results using it.

Hello, are you going to make an updated video?

which language is used in "text config files" matlab or cpp etc.

For the vst plugging, it's saying "Library could not be loaded" what does that mean?

How do u connect ur contentinterface to soft soft so u can record?

Hello please comment if this works for MW2? Or if you plan making another video for it

i use alienware310h headset which isnt listed on the eq project, what can i do?

can you do it again for warzone 2?

TNice tutorials is pretty much a modern day Fairlight CMI.

do you recommend coupling this with dolby access and if so what should I turn on?

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

I have not experimented with any virtual surround sound settings.

I use A40 but not the Astro mix amp I use a sound blaster dac? What do you recommend for me to do?

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

follow my steps in the video. In the configurator screen in Equalizer APO, Install and select your sound blaster as your playback device. In the sound blaster software disable the EQ and any other settings so that you have a clean signal coming through.

super good video but when will we get one for warzone 2?

I have Realtek but am plugged in to an Astro Mixamp. Do I still need to do the troubleshooting part from the beginning?

@steve-anderson

2 жыл бұрын

If its uses the realtek audio driver, yes.

@hunter22gray

2 жыл бұрын

I had the same question 🙌🏻

i have min set up exaclty like yours. it sounds good. but on the graph where you have 2 peaks mine only has ones. Anything i need to try?

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

After the Graphic EQ you should have added two peaking filters. Did you do that correctly? one at 270 and the other at 700?

@jpattyyy

2 жыл бұрын

@@xGWOK yes sir. Did both.

@KarlosDelTequila

2 жыл бұрын

I had this too, in the analysis panel make sure that the "Start from" field is set to "current file". On first install, it will show as config.txt. Change that, you'll see the peaks

great video.... this has always been a problem for me with the sound.......... should the spatial sound be disabled in the systems sound settings.........I assume yes

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

I have not experimented using the spatial sound setting. I would turn it off.

Plss tell me how can i costomise this for apex legends its making the sound very echoing

i have a pair of astro a50s - as i have astro command centre and its own custom EQ is there anyway to bypass this and only use Equaliser APO?

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

You should still be able to have Astro Command center running. That’s not a problem. You just need to make sure that you have all of your EQ Presets turned off or set to zero in Command Center. You don’t want it applying any effects to your signal.

The eq settings were very good but the compressor makes quite footsteps quieter I don't think it works on a game that already compresses footsteps together with the bass and mid range.

when are you making the video for the microphone? im using the sm7b, i think its the same that you're using.

@xGWOK

Жыл бұрын

I’ll try to make it this week. I have some great tips for that one.

@alibasraoi1125

Жыл бұрын

Any Day now 😝

@alibasraoi1125

Жыл бұрын

@@xGWOK hope everything is good, haven't seen u respond to a comment in a while.

I get to the VST plug in part and the program locks up and nothing happens.

i can use the same compresor for Apex legends?

Hi this great! But its look like i here to far for me and above me but the same flower and near me i dont here Any solution?

@yossivahba6977

2 жыл бұрын

Floor*

Can you do one for MW2 2022?

Do we need to have the configuratrion editor opened while running the game or is it okay toc close it? Thanks

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

You can close it. Just make sure you hit save first.

@kevymatts1401

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much 😊

Ever since I started running Equalizer APO, my MW III game keeps crashing. Have you dealt with that before?

Would these settings also work with Escape from Tarkov as well?

@MahmoudAmine9000

Жыл бұрын

Did you try it ? Im going to try it when open the pc. Ill let you know my feedback.

dose this work for MW2?

im not being able to use the TDR Kotelnikov in equalizer APO, everytime i try to load the plugging in the equalizer APO it got stuck, ive tried many diferent ways but nothing works, there is another audio compressor we can use or a way to fix the problem with the TDR Kotelnikov?

@steve-anderson

Жыл бұрын

Try moving the vst plugin into the folder \Program Files\EqualizerAPO\VSTPlugins. that should resolve your problems

@MawkyMaawk

Жыл бұрын

@@steve-anderson Confirmed that this worked. Thank you!!

@steve-anderson

Жыл бұрын

@@MawkyMaawk i have an improved method I will be releasing soon that no one else is using. It’s even better than this. Hoping to have a new video in a week or so

thx but sadly my heaset is not referenced in. i've got an asus rog theta 7.1. and does not match the asus rog in it. also i would like to have help for the new warzone2 to have better audio for footstep because warzone1 is over now :p thx

should i keep the APO configuration editor open to make the eq active ?

@jason80791

6 ай бұрын

No

this works on console? im trying this now in mmy cloud stinger

does this still work today in season 5 ?

Anyone having issues with EqualizerAPO crashing when trying to install the TDR Kotelnikov plugin, just move the plugin into ?\Program Files\EqualizerAPO\VSTPlugins and then open it from there in EqualizerAPO.

@davidrev2489

Жыл бұрын

Restart your pc will help you ti fix it. It happened to me also.

Does this work in cs go too?

it works well for me except for the sound became like it's coming from under water, how to fix that?

@xGWOK

2 жыл бұрын

You have two options to try and improve this. First try decreasing the gain of the peak filter set to 270. Then try decreasing the threshold on the compressor if it’s affects are too strong for you

does this work in tarkov too?

I'm using the G Pro X and I applied the parametric eq settings through peace While trying to do these I see my graph is nothing like yours It isn't neutral at all and not only peaking on 270 and 700. It's almost as if its shelfed around 3800 4000. Which it shouldn't be imo

@Mommish86

Жыл бұрын

G pro x is terrible for gaming, ive tried everything with this headset and its just trash :(