My Guide to Configuring Roccat Kaves for Music (Foobar2000)

asim18 · 3 Dec 2011 at 22:45

I'm always hearing that the Kaves are terrible for music etc, but I've wondered how many of these people have actually bothered setting it up properly. In all honesty though, if you do just plug and play, it does sound like crap... but since this is a 5.1 headset, there's some 'stuff' you can do to get it to sound much better.

Firstly, you need to ensure your sound card is set to 5.1. You can do this from Control Panel>Sound.

Things to download and/or install

Foobar2000 (Official site)
Channel Mixer DSP Plugin (Official site)
My Presets (Link)

To install the channel mixer plugin just copy & paste the .DLL file to C:\Program Files (x86)\foobar2000\components or wherever you installed Foobar to.

Once everything is installed you need to enable the DSPs and apply my profiles...

Configuring Foobar

Press CTRL+P to bring up Foobar's Preferences.

Under 'Playback' click on 'DSP Manager'.

You then need to activate the 'Equalizer' and 'Channel Mixer'. Make sure the equalizer is at the top.

You now need to import my presets. Just click on the DSP and hit 'Configure selected'. Then just click the appropriate buttons to load my presets, just browse to wherever you extracted them and open them.

The Roccat Control Pod

Center: 40%
Front: 50%
Rear: 35%
Sub: 50-100% depending on preference.

Should look something like this:

I hope this helps someone who has purchased a set of Kaves and has been let down by its musical performance.

Griff7520 · 6 Dec 2011 at 12:21

Thanks for that mate....excellent results here.

elrasho · 6 Dec 2011 at 13:34

I will try this when I get home tonight. Side note anyone else get ear ache after an hour using these headsets? I have the volume on really low too.

Stoner81 · 6 Dec 2011 at 16:11

Thanks for this I have recently bought a set of these so this will come in handy!

Stoner81.

asim18 · 9 Dec 2011 at 01:15

Griff7520 said:
Thanks for that mate....excellent results here.

Thanks for the feedback mate.

elrasho said:
I will try this when I get home tonight. Side note anyone else get ear ache after an hour using these headsets? I have the volume on really low too.

No earaches here. Maybe you're just listening too loud?

Stoner81 said:
Thanks for this I have recently bought a set of these so this will come in handy!

Stoner81.

Nice one. Let us know how it goes

Kosmiche · 10 Dec 2011 at 23:22

I did everything you said but I didn't have channel mixer in the list.

I must have done something wrong because it sounds awful now, during bassy segments in a song the bass is at full but when the bass drops out slightly there is no bass whatsoever.

TBH it sounded perfect before so if it aint broke don't try to fix it I guess.

Using a xonar DS btw.