Help: Steelseries Arctis 9 Setup

[kitnoman]

I'm not really an audiophile or cared so much on headsets before so I'm not really familiar with headset features. So I got a few questions;

 

It is better to turn on the surround on the steelseries engine 3? if so for which type of games?

 

If surround is on, should I also turn on spatial sound(windows sonic)?

 

I remember that there was a manual EQ setup done for arctis 7(just can't find it or who did the video, but if I find it), would the eq settings also apply with arctis 9?

 

I mainly play, Apex legends and CS for fps, Dota 2 for moba and open world rpg games like assassin's creed, farcry, Witcher, resident evil, FF series, which brings me to the last question, should I bother in creating custom settings for each game/genre using the  feature on steelseries engine 3?

 

And if you guys have any other tips or pointers that I should know about to fully utilize this headset and cared to share, I'd really appreciate it.  Thanks!

[Tigerleon]

1 hour ago, kitnoman said:

It is better to turn on the surround on the steelseries engine 3? if so for which type of games?

You have 2 ears and you have to drivers. So probably not for audio quality but you might get a bit more immersion. Imo opinion it is not worth it.

1 hour ago, kitnoman said:

If surround is on, should I also turn on spatial sound(windows sonic)?

Nope

1 hour ago, kitnoman said:

I remember that there was a manual EQ setup done for arctis 7(just can't find it or who did the video, but if I find it), would the eq settings also apply with arctis 9?

If you are asking about EQ, you can EQ the sound as how you want it.

1 hour ago, kitnoman said:

I mainly play, Apex legends and CS for fps, Dota 2 for moba and open world rpg games like assassin's creed, farcry, Witcher, resident evil, FF series, which brings me to the last question, should I bother in creating custom settings for each game/genre using the  feature on steelseries engine 3?

 

Try it out for yourself. Find out what suits you best. I have my DT 990 pro with my sound blaster AE-9 and I have the same settings for all games.

[Tigerleon]

@kitnomanForgot to ask. What mobo do you have?

EDIT: Nvm these are wireless so no 3.5mm will be useful anyways.

[kitnoman]

Thanks and yes, I was talking about the eq, as I know a little bit about pc hardware but none about setting up eq. So it's not that I don't want to mess with it, but that I don't know anything to be able to know if I succeeded or failed. I'm really not familiar what each of those frequency do, so the laziest thing that I can think of is to use the profile set by "experts" that reviewed the acrtis 7. lol