I'm trying to use a Turtle Beach X12 headset for ATC comms while engines and enviornment sounds are on separate conventional speakers. The following advice worked fine for a previous Plantronics headset:

 

For Win 7 go into control panel, choose sound. Assuming you have 2 sound devices (primary & another card) you will see your devices listed. Right click on the speaker device, set as "default sound device". Then click on the device you want to use for ATC, right click, set as "default communication device". After you do this FSX should then see the 2 separate devices on the drop downs on the sound tab.

 

However, I understand the Turtle Beach X12 headset isn't normally detected. At this point, How does one segregate sounds between desired external sounds (engine, enviornment) and desired headset ATC?

 

Thanks / Les Parson

You can't do this with the default ATC as the ATC sound is connected to the engine, cockpit, environment, etc. You might be able to do this by turning the sound off in the default ATC (uncheck Voice) then getting a program like ProATC which has its own sound. I'm not sure how you would get your soundcard to place your ATC sound to the headset and the other sounds to your speakers. That's never been my forte.... Hopefully someone can help you with that task.

 

Best regards,

Jim

2 pcs networked -widefs-and RC4 on the client.

In FSX Settings -> Sound, there are Windows Sound Devices, Sounds and Voice. I never tried it but does that not allow the separation? Choose another device for the voice?

There are two devices shown in fsx.cfg

[sOUND]

PrimaryDevice={DEF00000-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03}

VoiceDevice={DEF00002-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03}

In FSX Settings -> Sound, there are Windows Sound Devices, Sounds and Voice. I never tried it but does that not allow the separation? Choose another device for the voice?

There are two devices shown in fsx.cfg

[sOUND]

PrimaryDevice={DEF00000-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03}

VoiceDevice={DEF00002-9C6D-47ED-AAF1-4DDA8F2B5C03}

 

You cant pull just the ATC separate. The internal sounds will also go thru the headphones ,ie trim wheel, button clicks.

Thanks for the inputs. I can separate the engine/enviornmet from voice just fine using a cheap USB Plantronics headset. However. I can't get the Turtle Beach X12 to work. The Turtle Beach unit is'nt recognized as a device and that complicates things.