The SteelSeries GG software, which has evolved hugely over the years, is now a fully-fledged software suite with umpteen different gimmicks and features to keep you busy. We’ll focus on the audio features for this review.

The Home tab just gives you an overall view of what’s going on, with adverts for new products and links to various places within the software and on the SteelSeries website.


Sonar, a powerful software audio mixer that allows you to tweak things to your heart’s content. The Sonar suite allows you to take advantage of the new Clearcast AI-powered noise cancellation, giving you granular control over many specific aspects of the noise your microphone will collect. You can remove background noise, such as the whirr of the fans from your PC or a nearby air conditioner, while impact noises can also be filtered out, things like the clack from your mechanical keyboard or the click of your mouse.


Predetermined equaliser levels are available for a wide variety of games to help you hear the exact sounds you need to, such as enemy footsteps in your favourite first person shooter, tyres chirping at the edge of traction in racing games or enemy planes approaching from behind in War Thunder. You can tweak things further, if you wish to.


Jumping into the Engine part of the software, this lets you play around with some settings of the headset and the GameDAC. You can adjust the equalizer, if you don’t want to use Sonar, and things like the gain and volume of the microphone.