When other drivers talk, it’s painfully loud. Even just the other guys’ breathing drowns out my engine. I have to mute everyone, but I’d rather join the party. In the “audio” menu on the main page, there’s no setting for the volume of the other drivers. Same thing for the “game options” menu on the single-player page where you select a track. Is there some way to turn the other drivers down, just a little, without turning down everything else?
Using a headset? I have the cheapo MS headset that plugs into the controller and all the chat comes in on it while the ambient racing sound is on the main speaker from the TV or surround if I have it on. It also has a self mute button and a volume control for everyone else.
But yes, open mics are a pain listening to breathing or their background noise isn’t pleasant. I heard a guys wife screaming at him about wasting time on “that game” when he had other things he should have been doing. I’ve heard toddlers screaming, dogs barking, people honking snot and coughing up loogies. Sometimes its just plain disgusting. I just take the headset off in public lobbies most of the time.
Check your xbox settings. I believe you can adjust your sound options there, that way you can just have voice volume all the way down until you actually want to hear people. I’m sure someone can give a more detailed, step by step process of how this works, but I know I’ve done it before when my mic broke. Now I just use the volume on the headset instead of using the console settings. I hope this helps.
I assume you are using a different headset like a 3.5mm or wireless or something with no volume control, just because the standard headset has volume control on the connector
So yeah as above, the Xbox device/controller settings, the only way to do it I think if you have a 3.5mm headset jack controller too, and not the standard old type for the Xbox headset.
Just have a fiddle about in there.
If anyone has any other advice on this issue, I’d really like to hear it. I can’t make sense of it. In an online race, my engine and tires sound just fine, but as soon as someone talks, their talking is painfully loud. I’ve found “party chat” setting on the xbozone audio settings, but it has zero effect. Is it really my cheap headphones causing this? Do better headphones control game sound independently from chat sound? Anyway, if anyone has any thoughts on how to fix this, that would be great. I realize I can mute the other players, but not when I come late to a race. Plus it seems like it would be more fun to join the conversation than to sit in silence.
I have to agree. I have not found an answer either. I use my Turtle Beach XP510 headset into a controller w/3.5mm jack in it. I get all of my audio through the headset and can program settings. But I can have 22 people sounding great and have excellent game audio until someone cranks up their microphone to full gain and shouts into it through the whole game. Sometimes it’s so loud I have to quit a race, because it’s unbearable. I’ve tried asking them and some apologize and turn it down. Others will turn up their television or surround sound until it is blaring too, or they will go off on an expletive rich rant about how it’s my problem.
When they don’t cooperate, I have to mute them. I don’t think there is any other way to do it.
Lately, I have been having more chat trouble than usual. The chat voices are either all too loud, too low or they have echo (robot stutter). That is an issue that I would like to see resolved.
There is a chat mixer. While in the lobby, got to your Xbox settings and it should pop up on the left side of the screen. But as far as I know, the only adjustments are game volume and mic monitoring level (your mic).
Sorry, that’s all I’ve got.
Peace
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So are you saying they are just headphones with no mic for communication? If so that is where your problem is. What you are looking for is a headset with the mic attached. Then most all of them will have a button or buttons to adjust volumes separately from each other. As well as some will include a sound mixer like bass, treble etc. I think my headset is a Turtle Beach XO One. Not a bad headset it works really well. And wasn’t too expensive at around $70 US dollars.
It seems like you might need a new headset if yours does not allow to adjust between game and chat. That is how I do it. But, if it goes to where you are getting feedback from somebody all through the entire race. Then they get the mute. Nothing worse than getting into a race and somebody has everything going on through your speakers too.
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I’m getting old! Things are starting to happen that I would never expect. Thanks much, this must be the answer.
The bleed over of TV and background noise should be called the “Kinect Effect”.IMO that was the worst thing invented for multiplayer gaming. Talk about annoying that thing is an instant trigger for me to say to myself “stay away from that player they are new to this”.
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There’s a sound mixer in Xbox settings where you can set it to reduce the volume of the game by certain percentages when someone talks on chat. You might have that turned on. I know if I don’t have it turned on and chat is coming over my TV I can’t hear anyone during a race as they’re drowned out by the game audio. Maybe non-1st party headphones are the same.
So I got a fancy new headset, and at first it seemed exactly what I need. But it plugs into a wireless controller only. It won’t plug into my wired controller. This is a problem, because I don’t use the controller to race – I use a G920 wheel. So the controller turns itself off every few minutes. I’ve poked around for a way to make the controller stay on, but with no luck. I’ve watched and played in a number of online races, and from the way the other cars move, my guess is that almost everyone uses a controller. Is there anyone out there using a wheel who has a working headset that doesn’t require a tap on the controller every few minutes to keep it awake?
P.S. The adaptor that plugs into the controller has a VERY short cable, so I have to set the controller on a makeshift shelf right next to where I sit. The cable is hard-wired into the adaptor, so I can’t simply use a different cable. Does anyone else have these issues, or am I just being a spaz?
I use a Turtlebeach X800, which is completely wireless.
Only the docking bay (for recharging), is wired to the xbox.
As far as i remember it’s the only headset available at the moment that doesn’t use an adapter to get the chat working.