


Play all day with athletics-inspired performance fabric AirWeave ear cushions that keep your ears cool and dry.USB ChatMix Dial lets you balance the volume between your game and chat audio on the fly.Immerse yourself in 360-degrees of precision audio with next-generation DTS Headphone:X v2.0 surround sound.Sound is your competitive advantage with the S1 speaker drivers, engineered to produce ultra-low distortion audio so you hear every detail.Widely recognized as the best mic in gaming, the Discord-certified ClearCast microphone delivers studio-quality voice clarity and background noise cancellation.Now that you have a basic understanding of the nature of the problem we will move on towards the solutions. Therefore, make sure that the audio settings inside the audio control panel are configured to the best of your needs. Audio Settings: If the audio levels of the microphone are not adjusted, it is possible that the microphone is configured to pick up only very loud sounds.Default Devices: Make sure that the correct devices are selected as default as often it was seen that the default device that was selected in the sound control panel was not the one from Arctis 5 and that was preventing the microphone from working properly.This file will then be installed within the engine and your Arctis 5 will be ready to use. After the engine is installed, it will prompt you to download an additional file for the Arctis 5 headset. SteelSeries Engine: Make sure that you have the SteelSeries engine installed on your computer in order for the headset to work correctly.By Default, this button is in the middle but if you somehow turned it all the way to the “Game” side then you will not be able to hear any voice chat by your teammates. The sound card that comes in the box has a knob on it with “Game” written on one side and “Chat” on the other. Game Chat Feature: Also, there was a new feature introduced in the headset.If this button is not pushed in you will be able to see a red light on the microphone this means that the microphone is muted. Microphone Mute: There is a button on the left earcup of the headset right behind the volume wheel.
