Software & Drivers
Software & Drivers
The Corsair Gaming VOID conforms to USB audio standards and Windows will install a basic driver to get it going. You don't get the Surround with the basic USB audio driver. This also means that the headset is an audio device like your sound card, in case you were wondering. Windows has its own enhancements in the driver control panel.
So ONLY if you use the included USB dongle (USB soundcard), Corsair Cue can be used.
So please do install the Corsair CUE software suite to get everything up and running. So once the drivers are all sorted out and installed, after a restart you're welcomed with a nicely designed GUI display. Once you have selected the headset (other Corsair components like mice and keyboards are controlled with this software as well) we flick the Lighting tab. Here's where you configure / select them. It is easy enough albeit I still find the CUE software rather confusing for the average end user.
The control panel is very minimalist. Basically EQ on/off with presets and surround on/off with presets is what you get to play around with. The predefined EQ settings that you see, like Pure Bass boost etc., are pretty bad IMHO. Also, if you like listening to music here's a tip, do you see the Dolby sign? Tick it off. Honestly the sound becomes flat and very monotonous.
Pretty much this is what you need to do:
- Select pure direct
- Disable Dolby Headphone Surround
- Then manually configure the equalizer
- Save as default profile
- Boom, you're done
Again, the surround configuration panel is intended to simulate Dolby 7.1 Headphone surround sound. Seriously (but please do experiment yourself), disable it.
