westside wrote:I have been using a device called a ButtKicker in my simpit for the last few years and in late September the main amp for these devices gave up. Having the seats rumble adds quite alot to the experience. It was capable of running two units at a time and I pushed it to three. I have been waiting for a new amp since mid October and am looking forward to having my seats come to life once again. They are a great addition to any simpit and work well well with a good sound system.
HELP! I bought the
ButtKicker BK-GR Gamer last February.
And while I like it a lot for music and movies, it seems somewhat underwhelming when used with FSX.
The parts were made far better than I was expecting. No complaints there.
And, as well as a tunelessly challenged person can tell, I
THINK that it's working as intended. But I'm starting to question that.
Some bass effects are very understandable - 4 radial engines on
most WWII bombers are great. A whining jet engine just isn't going to produce much in the way of a bass rumble.
When I'm using it with FSX, I turn the "volume" up on the BK until I can barely feel a buzzing in the seat. The highest I let it go up is just below the point where the red light comes on.
But at the low end of the threshold where there is a faint buzz felt in the chair, there isn't much butt kicking going on (when I have a plane taking off and flying).
BTW, the ButtKicker is plugged into the bass output on my computer.
I have 2 powered (audio) bass speakers (along with the mid and high speakers). These 2 bass speakers are enough to rumble the desktop when I crank them up. At that point I, usually, turn up the volume on the ButtKicker up past the buzzing that it normally produces.
I would have thought that the buzzing from the ButtKicker was coming from the audio built in to the motherboard. But pressing the mute button on the keyboard stops all audio going out, without stopping the buzz felt in the chair.
With the ButtKickers volume turned down to the point where I can
just feel the buzzing, I've disconnected the input to the back of the ButtKicker amplifier. The buzz was still there, and still at the same volume.
`````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````JBaymore wrote:
Absolutely. With the Aerosoft payware add on that puts center line light unit bumps into the sim...... you really notice the impact of the shakers... and if you modlify the sound files with sub-sonics for the flaps noises.... you really feel the effects.
best,
...................john
What software are you referring to? The better the ButtKicker effects the happier I'll be. I hope.
I bought Accu-Feel from A2A hopping that it could help accentuate the thuds, thunks, and bumps felt via the ButtKicker. But it didn't help all that much with the ButtKicker.
On the other hand, Accu-Feel did add a lot that MS left out, and was well worth the money.
Either I have it setup wrong, or my ButtKicker amp isn't all that it should be.
However it does work VERY well with my music and movies. So the problem must be that I have it set up wrong for FSX???
Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:47 am
