Surround Sound on a gaming headset

[waleedshahid001]

Hey guys,

 

So I have been researching for my first gaming headset.

After going through alot of info on the web I am still a little confused about one thing.

 

From what I get its useless to buy a virtual surround sound headset ( like the razer kraken ) , and one should get a great simple head set (e.g seinheisser 588) . How do you get the surround sound experience(5.1 or 7.1) on a simple gaming headset ? Is there a software for that or an audio card or something ?

 

 

Thanks for the support .

 

[ShadowCaptain]

Hey guys,

 

Thanks for the support .

 

Here 

 

http://www.razerzone.com/gb-en/surround

 

 

Personally, a good stereo headset with a great soundstage will still give you great positional audio without using software trickery, for example my sennheiser momentums (arguably not the best sound stage) when I play BF4, I can easily hear the location of gunfire without any extra surround software

[creatip123]

The fact is, almost every games nowadays (and definitely all FPS) already got their own virtual surround in their built-in audio engine. Because they don't label it as 'virtual surround' so some people don't know that it's there. 

 

If in a game (FPS' are the most discernible) you hear the same sound (for example, a character's speeches, footsteps, etc) changing directions depending on your movements, that's virtual surround.