Question / Help Heavy bass boost on game audio

[Matt Tolman]

Ive seen alot of these problems posted but none really solved. Recordings come out very bass boosted for some reason, its not the mic audio (or if it is i dont have enough bass in my voice to boost noticeably). Its all recordings too, pc, ps4, doesnt matter. Of course it sounds fine in the headset so i dont know where the problem is.

I have my audio going out to speakers (stereo configuration in settings), speakers are logitech z533, i have sennheiser heaphones plugged into the speakers. Mic is blue yeti. Game audio is being fed to OBS as "desktop audio" (btw if anyone knows how to pull audio from a direct source like a game window or a capture card instead from desktop that would be great).

Lemme know if anyone can offer help or if you need more info. Thanks.

 

[Matt Tolman]

Nevermind, solved the issue. If anyone sees this and has the same issue I'll detail my solution.

I had 2 audio managers on my pc, realtek hd audio manager, and DTS audio.

First checked realtek hd audio manager, it was on stereo like many people said to switch it to but there was another setting for performance enhancing which was set to extreme, i turned this down to the lower setting "performance" which helped a little.

Found a forum post saying to downliad the latest realtek driver, did that.

Following the installation i stumbled upon the DTS audio software, opened it, found settings turned on called "bass boost" and "surround sound", turned them both off, recordings are beautiful now. Changes i made to realtek may have been unnecessary but i figured id include them anyway.