Cyborg 5.1 Headset Setup
The Cyborg Headset provides great sound quality in both games and music. 5.1 surround sound can only be accessed by using the USB connector on the device. This is because the headset is in itself a 5.1 sound card, that over rides the sound device you already have on your PC. When using the USB plug, both sound and mic go through the one port. You can use the standard 3.5 jacks to achieve stereo sound and mic usage, but you should never use the jacks and the USB at the same time as this creates sound distortion.
XP
Plug the headset’s USB into an available port on the back of your PC. Windows will acknowledge the new hardware and the headset will appear as a USB Sound Device.
You can then install the driver for the device. Once completed, open up the musical note icon in the taskbar next to the clock. On the first page set analog output to 6CH then press the play icon to test the 5.1 speakers. Now click the Mixer tab. Make sure that in the Volume section the entry for mic is active and has its volume level set to about 10-15%. If you set it too high you will get feedback and a quite annoying buzzing sound will occur. Make sure that Line-in is deactivated; the little rectangle under its volume slider will be grey instead of blue.
In the Rec section make sure that Microphone is selected (volume rectangle will be blue), and the volume set to about 40%.
Now open up Control Panel and then open Sounds and Audio Devices. On both Audio and Voice tabs ‘C-Media CM106 Like Sound Device’ should be set to Default Device (except for MIDI music playback). And the Use only default devices should be ticked.
That is everything correctly setup in Windows. If you open up Sound Recorder and say a few words, then you will be able to play them back in Windows Media Player.
Vista
Plug the headset’s USB into an available port on the back of your PC. Windows will acknowledge the new hardware and the headset will appear as a USB Sound Device.
You can then install the driver for the device. Once completed, open up the musical note icon in the taskbar next to the clock. On the first page set analog output to 6 Speakers then set System Input to 6 CH.
Now open up Control Panel then open the Sounds icon. On the play back tab C-Media etc etc will appear with a green tick next to it. On the recording tab, Line-in may have the green tick next to it, and this is not what we want. Right click Line-In and select disable, once disabled the C-Media Microphone will appear with the green tick. Click on the properties for the mic and set the level to about 40%.
Go back to the playback tab and open up the properties for Speakers. On the Levels page make sure Line In is set to 0 and the mic is set to about 10-15%.
That is everything correctly setup in Windows. If you open up Sound Recorder and say a few words, you will then be able to play them back in Windows Media Player.
Teamspeak
If Teamspeak is your gaming program of choice, open it up and go to Settings > Options. Set sound driver to Direct Sound then check the Device section. Input Device should be set to ‘Microphone (C-Media etc etc) and Output Device should be ‘Speakers (C-Media etc etc). Those are the correct settings for USB 5.1 mode.
NOTE! If you are using jacks, mic and speakers need to be set to the sound device that is on your system not C-Media CM106’.
Ventrilo
If Ventrilo is your preferred program open it up and go to setup. Output device needs to be set to Use Direct Sound, as does the Input Device. Once these boxes are ticked Default Direct Sound Device will be set for both output and input and you will be ready to go.
