10 Things to Consider When Buying Steel Serise

While our headsets already provide amazing sound quality, we've been developing Sonar Software as the perfect companion that makes your experience so much better.

Audio plays a crucial role in your overall gaming experience. That's why it's important to have a gaming audio software that can provide you with the best possible sound quality. Whether you're trying to hear footsteps in Valorant, the clicks of the bomb in CS:GO, or potion slurps in other games, audio can be a decisive advantage.

Sonar Software enhances your gaming audio experience in a variety of ways:

• provides advanced audio controls
• immersive surround sound
• low latency audio
• game-specific audio profiles
• an intuitive user interface
• compatibility with all SteelSeries gaming headsets, and not only!

7 Key Features To Look For In Gaming Audio Software

1. Advanced Audio Controls

One of the standout features needed for any gaming situation is advanced audio controls. With these controls, you can fine-tune your audio settings to your liking. You can adjust bass, treble, and other settings to create a sound that suits your preferences. Sonar uses a pro-grade 10-band Parametric EQ (first in gaming!), allowing you to make precise adjustments to your audio settings.

2. Immersive Surround Sound

You want audio enhancement software that provides immersive 7.1 surround sound, making it easier to locate enemies and other important game elements. This feature is particularly useful for games that require spatial awareness, like FPS games.

Hear audio cues from all directions, allowing you to quickly and accurately locate enemies and other game elements. This can give you a significant advantage in games where sound plays a critical role.

3. Low Latency Audio

Low latency audio is absolutely key to ensuring minimal delay between the sound being produced and you hearing it. This feature is critical in games where timing is everything, such as rhythm games or fast-paced action games.

With Sonar, you can be confident that the audio you hear is in sync with the action on screen, giving you the precision and accuracy you need to succeed. Sonar also uses only the CPU to put no additional strain on your system.

4. Game-Specific Audio Profiles

Game-specific audio profiles that optimize the audio settings for specific games is a nice feature to have if you are frequently switching games and want to easily adapt. This feature ensures that you can enjoy the best possible audio quality for your favorite games.

This PC audio software profiles for a wide range of popular games, such as Valorant, Destiny 2 (with the preset made by Bungie!), Diablo IV (made by Blizzard), Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dota 2, and League of Legends. These profiles are optimized to provide the best possible audio experience for each game, ensuring that you don't miss a beat.

5. Intuitive User Interface

Having a user interface that makes it easy for you to customize your audio settings that aims to enhance your experience instead of hinder is often overlooked. A simple user interface that’s easy to navigate makes gaming audio optimization accessible to both experienced and novice gamers.

With SteelSeries' software, you won't need to spend hours tinkering with settings to get the perfect sound. Instead, you can quickly and easily make adjustments to your audio settings, ensuring that you can focus on what really matters - playing your favorite games.

6. Compatibility

SteelSeries' software is compatible with every single SteelSeries gaming headset, ensuring that you can enjoy the best possible audio quality with your favorite wireless gaming headset. It even works with non-SteelSeries headsets as well. Works well with wired headsets also.

Whether you have the Arctis Nova 7 Wireless or the Arctis Pro, SteelSeries' software is designed to work seamlessly with your headset.

7. Customizable Microphone Settings

Sonar Software allows you to customize your microphone settings, ensuring that your voice is clear and crisp during online gaming sessions. You can adjust the microphone sensitivity, noise gate, and noise reduction settings to ensure that your voice is heard loud and clear — among them, very powerful AI noise cancellation which reduces both your noise as well as that which is incoming from your friends.

This is particularly important in team-based games, where clear communication can mean the difference between winning and losing. With SteelSeries' software, you can be confident that your voice will be heard by your teammates, allowing you to coordinate your gameplay and execute strategies with ease.

Get a Competitive Edge with Sonar

In conclusion, having the right gaming audio software can enhance your experience. SteelSeries' software provides advanced audio controls, immersive surround sound, low latency audio, game-specific audio profiles, an intuitive user interface, compatibility with a range of gaming headsets, and customizable microphone settings, making it the ultimate audio solution.

Download Sonar for free and take your gaming experience to the next level!

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With Final Fantasy VII's remake fast approaching, among other exciting PlayStation exclusives like Death Stranding, you may be considering picking up a PS4. Here's what you need to know first.

If you've been out of the console game for awhile, you might feel a bit lost, so here's a few simple tips to get you back in the know:

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1: Storage May Be an Issue

Current-gen games require console storage (around 40 GB) for improved gameplay experience, even if you have a disk. Consider buying the game digitally for an optimal experience. With a full game library, you could be hard pressed for space, but there are methods to switch out the internal drive to something a bit beefier.

2: PlayStation Plus Is Kinda Essential

PS Plus, the PlayStation’s annual membership service, is kind of needed for the online experience. In olden times with the PS3, online play was free, but with the PS4, Sony moved to a subscription service that starts at $60/year. It’s not all bad however – the subscription gifts you nice games from time to time, along with coupons. One thing to note that you won’t need it to just stream media – Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.

3: PS4 is not backwards compatible

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Unlike the Xbox One, the PS4 can’t read any older game disks. However, you can get PS2 classics online through the digital store for around $14 a pop. PS1 and PS3 games are mysteriously missing, however.

4: When buying games, it often pays to be patient.

While most games release at a $59.99 price point, they don’t always stay there. Prices generally drop buy a substantial amount within a year or two. Ex. Spider-man was at one time $60 last year, but can now be found for $20-$30. Do some research on price history on a game to make sure you're buying it at a low price.

5: Batteries not included (but not needed anyway)

PS4 controllers don’t require batteries, thanks to a rechargeable lithium ion battery. You simple plug the controller into the PS4 to charge (you can still play while charging). Keep those Duracells for something else!

6: Get to know the Home Button

Double tap the home button to go to the previous app. You can’t go from game to game, but you can go from an app to a game and back.

We hope these tips will familiarize you with the PS4 before slapping down your hard-earned cash. Did we miss anything? What advice would you give someone buying a PS4 for the first time? Let us know on Twitter!