u/JohnMasterChief117

So let me preface this, I just upgraded from a set of Astro A50 Gen 4s to the A50X due to the Prime Day deals. Nothing in my setup changed, with the exception of unplugging my old base of course and setting up the new one as configured in the instructions.

* Base to PC with USB A and C cable plugged in * Headset cycled to PC on the Base

While playing games now and talking in Discord, my game and chat audio are essentially tied together which is a no go for me. I play a lot of War Thunder and can barely hear anyone over the sounds even with their audio cranked to 200%.

So I have Voicemod installed and use a Stream Deck just for soundboard fun, not actually streaming anything.

In Discord I've set my mic to Headset Microphone (A50 X Mic) and my Speaker to Headphones (A50 X Game). My windows 11 Volume Mixer is set to those exactly as well. I even tried closing Voicemod out to see if that would fix it, but it didn't seem to change anything. I even did the Windows + G and set everything there while playing, but no luck.

Looking for assistance on why this is happening because if I can't solve it, I'll just send these back in and go back to my A50 Gen 4s.

**EDIT** Fixed

Apparently the Astro A50 X is picky about which USB controller it's connected to. On my MSI X870E Carbon, plugging both cables into the rear USB-C and USB-A ports on the bottom, 12 and 11, (next to the 5G LAN port) fixed it immediately. The Game/Voice mixer works correctly there, while it didn't when I had plugged it into 'random' ports. My best guess is because MSI lists the ports as going to various controllers. It seems it has to be on the same controller, which makes sense because my front case ones did work.

2x USB 10Gbps Type A ports (From X870E Chipset) ● 4x USB 10Gbps Type A ports (From RTS5420) ● 1x HDMI™ port ● 2x USB 40Gbps Type-C ports (From ASM4242) ● Supports DisplayPort over USB Type-C® ● 1x USB 10Gbps Type C port (From CPU) ● 1x USB 10Gbps Type C port (From X870E Chipset) ● 1x USB 10Gbps Type A port (From CPU) ● 2x USB 10Gbps Type A ports (From X870E Chipset)

So let me preface this, I just upgraded from a set of Astro A50 Gen 4s to the A50X due to the Prime Day deals. Nothing in my setup changed, with the exception of unplugging my old base of course and setting up the new one as configured in the instructions.

• Base to PC with USB A and C cable plugged in
• Headset cycled to PC on the Base

While playing games now and talking in Discord, my game and chat audio are essentially tied together which is a no go for me. I play a lot of War Thunder and can barely hear anyone over the sounds even with their audio cranked to 200%.

So I have Voicemod installed and use a Stream Deck just for soundboard fun, not actually streaming anything.

In Discord I've set my mic to Headset Microphone (A50 X Mic) and my Speaker to Headphones (A50 X Game). My windows 11 Volume Mixer is set to those exactly as well. I even tried closing Voicemod out to see if that would fix it, but it didn't seem to change anything. I even did the Windows + G and set everything there while playing, but no luck.

Looking for assistance on why this is happening because if I can't solve it, I'll just send these back in and go back to my A50 Gen 4s.