Hard To Hear Characters Talking In A Game

thegoth

Hi,

Since I bought my 360 3 years ago, I have always found it difficult to hear characters talk during dialog in cut scenes. Has anyone else expierenced this. I have gone through about 4 360's and have the same issue with them all. I have perfect hearing. The problem is when, lets say there is a heleicopter making noise in the background and two characters are talking, its seems hard to actually hear what they are saying, with the noise of the helicoper in the background

grizzly

Never had this problem. What speakers are you using? You may have the ambient channel set too high.

RossFixxxed

I've always thought the same, the voices are muted compared to all the other sound! Drives me mad. This is through my TV (sony bravia) or through my stereo!

quad_red

Yeah, that's happened to me in a few games as well.

Y2J_MUFC

I usually have to turn up GTA4 during cutscenes to hear what they are saying... then turn it back down after its over because its ridiculously loud when out of a cutscene.

BaconZombie

I have the same problem playing GearsII.
You can normal adjust the Music/Sound/Voice independently via the ingame menu.

RossFixxxed wrote: »

I've always thought the same, the voices are muted compared to all the other sound! Drives me mad. This is through my TV (sony bravia) or through my stereo!

lardossan

only got an xbox recently and noticed the same thing. I think by default the audio settings opt for 5 points audio(pro logic), if you select digital stereo it seems to sound better over a telly with two speakers or plain stereo setup...I could be wrong but it made speech clearer.

Mr Bloat

I have always had the same problem, although I used it as an excuse to convince my wife that we should upgrade the TV and switch to a surround sound system.
It did go a long way to fixing the problem, in fairness but there are always 'what did he say' moments. I usually turn on the ingame subtitles though, then I never miss what they say.

silvine

I've a surround system. Most games are fine (GTAIV was) but I do have that problem from time to time (Mass Effect). Try and turn up the in-game volume settings for dialogue or put on subtitles. What are your audio settings on the Xbox?

bucks73

Never experienced this myself until this week with World at War. Its almost impossible to hear what Kiefer Sutherland is telling you what to do. I keep having to press pause to check objectives. So annoying.

mcgovern

I didn't hear one word of the cutscenes during Too Human, Gears of War 2 is not much better.
I'm using 5.1 surround sound and typically have it fairly loud, but on those games and a few others, there is a massive difference in volume between in-game and cut scences.

Riesen_Meal

Surely this problem is down with the system settings blade????

I noticed the problem on older CRT tvs a lot aswell, and not on newer HDTVs....

grizzly

Maybe it's because the audio signal is being sent to a stereo output? forcing multiple audio channels into two channels may be the problem.

tbaymusicman

you can hardly hear it coz the god dam fan is so loud:(the only thing i dislike about my eggbox

Riesen_Meal

tbaymusicman wrote: »

you can hardly hear it coz the god dam fan is so loud:(the only thing i dislike about my eggbox

Tbaymusicman, you will obviously like the install to Hardrive feature in the update today as much as I did, I couldnt believe the peace and quiet in my room playing Halo 3!!!!

Keith186

If you only have two speakers set it to stereo or if you have surround set it to 5.1.

Turn up the speech volme in the game a good bit, turn down the sound effects & music a tad.

This mightn't do it for some games.

To make it sound even louder (if it's in game) face the character talking to you. Twirl it around a little and you'll notice the volume will get quieter and then louder depending on what way you are facing. Some games you have to stand near by.

Hope this helps.
Keith