How do you all control your volume in your cabs?

[ahofle]

Thanks for being the guinea pig on that one! 

[paigeoliver]

I set the volume on my mame cabinet in 2002 and never changed it. I have done the same with each of the 200ish games that have rotated in and out of my gameroom in the same time period (well for most of them I never had to touch the volume).

[EMDB]

I use iPAC2 internal mappings to lower and raise the volume with Shift-Player1-Up and Shift-Player1-down and use this autohotkey script to let my dedicate mute admin button toggle Windows mute:

Loop {
    F12:: Send {Volume_Mute}
}


I use this button a lot to quiet my cab down when it is temporarily not in use while Hyperspin plays the in-game-movies.

[mvolke1]

Dis little guy has worked wonders for my cab.

That thing is pretty sweet. What speakers do you use with it?

[eds1275]

Do games sound better with better equipment? I'm using the built in tv speakers on my Spinal Tap machine and they are probably better quality than any arcade machine ever had, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

[Rick]

Do games sound better with better equipment? I'm using the built in tv speakers on my Spinal Tap machine and they are probably better quality than any arcade machine ever had, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

Funny you mention that - on the latest bartop, I tried plugging in an old set of Logitech Z-623's, sub and all, and they were ... marginally better than the standard 4" speakers I ended up going with. I really only used them for testing, but I think you're right, most of the classic games don't sound a lot better with heavier hardware.

[mgb]

Do games sound better with better equipment? I'm using the built in tv speakers on my Spinal Tap machine and they are probably better quality than any arcade machine ever had, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference.

It really depends on the game.
I don't think you're gonna get hi-fi theater like sound out of Pac man, no matter how much you spend on speakers.
However, with some kind of sub, you'll get a little more bass out of games that will benefit.
My speakers are far from hi-fi and the sub is small but its makes a nice little difference for bass

[ChanceKJ]

a hacked up Griffin PowerMate.

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,139540.msg1443132.html#msg1443132

[newoski]

Volume2 is a similar free application that works perfectly. Allows volume controls to mapped to any buttons you choose.

Even better, you can still use it, if you include it in your startup script, while shelled in Windows 7.

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