One of the best features of the PS5 is the Tempest 3D Audio because it helps to make your gameplay experience more immersive, and soon players will be able to create a personalized 3D Audio profile to improve this.
The feature will be specifically for when using headphones as your audio source. The PS5 does support Tempest 3D Audio for speakers, but personalized profiles can’t be created for the speaker option. So you’ll need to be using headphones to take advantage of the feature. The good news is that you don’t need to have a Sony headset for this to work. So you don’t need to rush out to buy the PlayStation Pulse Elite headset or PlayStation Pulse Explore earbuds.
I was able to set things up using my SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro Wireless. In short, whatever headset you use while gaming on PS5 should work just fine with this upcoming new feature. There is, of course, one other important detail. This feature is coming in a future update.
The personalized 3D Audio profiles are available to PS5 system software beta participants
If you want to try out this feature early, there is a way to do so. You just need to be part of the PS5 system software beta. However, you can’t just enroll in the beta and get access anytime you want. You have to sign up for the beta and Sony randomly selects users to participate.
I received an invite to participate about two weeks ago and so I’ve had the opportunity to set up the personalized 3D audio profile already. The process is pretty simple to do and it only takes about 5 minutes or so, give or take a minute or two.
To enable this feature, you just need to open the settings menu and navigate to the sound menu. From there, under the “3D Headphones” sub-menu there’s now a “Create Personalized 3D Audio Profile” option. This will take you through a series of audio tests to get the profile created. Essentially, you’ll have to gauge where sounds are coming from and then tell the system. The system will then log your inputs and after all tests are finished, your profile is ready to use.
You can fine-tune the sound profile with a couple more adjustments
Once your profile is finished, you can do a little more fine-tuning to flesh things out even further. There are two options here – one for adjusting the sound height and one for adjusting the sound angle. I’d recommend setting up both of these to really get the audio honed in.
After these steps, you’re completely finished. However, you can always go back and create a new sound profile if you feel like things don’t sound just right. Worth noting is that the profile creation will also let you do a practice test to get a feel for things. So don’t feel pressured to get things “right” in any sense. Sony has also put out a video on the official PlayStation YouTube channel to visualize what this setup looks like, which you can view below.
2024-08-07 15:09:21