# Sound direction undistinguishable **URL:** \ **Category:** Technical Support\ **Tags:** acknowledged\ **Created:** [July 17, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/sound-direction-undistinguishable/40525 "2020-07-17T20:12:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Palesz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Palesz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Palesz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:12pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/sound-direction-undistinguishable/40525/1 "2020-07-17T20:12:05Z")
Grasping at last straws here. I got new Sennheiser gamer headphone because the mic on the old one died, updated the Realtek driver to the latest, tweaked sound settings in-game and in windows, but whatever I do, I cannot tell whenever a special is up where it spawned, where it’s coming from, not even when the ratling or the flamer is already shooting where it is. I had a cheap gamer headphone before and I never experienced this. Even now I put back the old one and can immediately tell what’s coming from where. If anyone has any idea what I’m missing, pls help. ---
**Author:** ![Fatshark\_Hedge](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forums.fatsharkgames.com/fatshark_hedge/32/53965_2.png) [@Fatshark\_Hedge](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Fatshark_Hedge)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 8:54pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/sound-direction-undistinguishable/40525/2 "2020-07-17T20:54:22Z")
Check the spacial sound settings, toggle it from whatever it is set to and try again. ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/8/f/8f93f0f479bd02f135a8269c05c684c2e845029f.png) ---
**Author:** ![Palesz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Palesz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Palesz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2020, 9:52pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/sound-direction-undistinguishable/40525/3 "2020-07-17T21:52:37Z")
It was enabled to Sonic while I was testing around. I turned it off, didn’t help. What helped was ,that I switched from the motherboard sound ports from the back of the PC to the front panel and changed it to AC97 in the Realtek Audio Manager. Now I can distinguish where sounds are coming from, but the sound of elites and specials is coming from the opposite direction from which they approach/attack. Interestingly enough, when I did some testing I realized, that my old headphones had the directions reversed. When the test indicated the left side, I heard the sound from the right. When it indicated the right, I heard it from the left. But this never seem to have impacted my gameplay, I was always spot on to localize enemies. The new headphones sound from the correct side during testing. ---
**Author:** ![Palesz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Palesz](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Palesz)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/sound-direction-undistinguishable/40525/4 "2020-07-18T09:54:46Z")
I managed to solve the problem. The old headphones only had a jack output, so I used an adapter to split mic and headphone channels. That adapter is swapping the left sound channel with the right one. So I used the new headphones adapter that combines the 2 channels (mic and headphones) into one jack, plugged it to the old headphone’s channel switching adapter and plugged that into the PC. Now I hear everything correctly. I don’t have a f\*cking clue what’s going on… ---
**Author:** ![Mary1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@Mary1](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/Mary1)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/sound-direction-undistinguishable/40525/5 "2020-07-18T13:35:34Z")
Thanks for sharing the info. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/fatshark/original/3X/3/1/319a2f41b73f03a4d9360defbe43058888a33c8c.png) [@system](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 1:35pm UTC](https://forums.fatsharkgames.com/t/sound-direction-undistinguishable/40525/6 "2020-07-25T13:35:37Z")
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