Sound Setup

Sound is an important part of competitive. Hearing footsteps form a nearby enemy will give you aover a player who hasn’t set up their sound correctly. First of all, turn off any music or unnecessary, noise causing programmes. The only programmes making noise should be: Counter Strike and whatever communication programme (skype, TeamSpeak) you use, if you even use one. Make sure your game volume is loud enough to hear any small sounds. This may feel too loud sometimes, like gun shooting, but you’ll get used to it. Now, onto the equipment! If your using headphones or a headset, it’s rather simple. As long as they are at least stereo and sound half decent, you should be fine. Ideally you want a virtual surround sound headset although it isn’t necessary. A good stereo headset is better than a poor qualityheadset. It won’t give you a huge help unless you are in top rank matchmaking. If using speakers on the other hand, getting them set up correctly is important. I won’t go in full detail as that would go on forever, but here’s a list of things to set up speakers correctly: positioned left and right and with a fair distance between them and the monitor (enough so that you can easily tell the difference between left and right), have them sound decent, point them towards your ears, be able to have them loud. There is probably a lot more but I believe that should do. Douse built in monitor/laptop speakers; please. There is a lot of sounds within the game which are quite important that you here. Someone with their sound setup properly will have an advantage over a player with a poor sound setup!