VOLUME STABILIZER
ACTIVATE ENHANCED AUDIO
Enhance your gaming and movie-watching experience, delivering impeccable sound balance and richer details - from thunderous explosions to subtle whispers.
Amplify or reduce specific in-game sounds for crystal-clear footsteps, potion sips, and bomb plants. Discover Parametric EQ in Sonar.
ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF SOUND
Nahimic is a premium audio driver and app built into the heart of select PCs. Break every sound barrier.
AUDIO PROFILES FOR EVERY WORLD
GAMING
FOR EVERY BATTLE
Pinpoint the building collapse from twenty feet to your right, or the quiet footsteps of someone sneaking up from behind. Improve your gameplay with clear audio from every direction.
Unlock advanced game-specific presets from your favorite pro players in Sonar.
MOVIE
FOR EVERY SCENE
Feel the screeching tires of a car chase and the nearby explosion that has you ducking for cover.
Experience each moment from inside the scene.
MUSIC
FOR EVERY SONG
Customize the treble to bring your favorite vocalist to the forefront, or drop the bass on a big release. Turn every listening experience into front row concert seats.
COMMUNICATION
FOR EVERY CHAT
Be heard with crystal clear audio that captures what matters most, and nothing more. Sound your best in every conference call, podcast and gaming session.
START FAST WITH SIMPLE PRESETS
Apply optimized equalizer presets for any situation across gaming, movies, music, and communication.
Take your gaming audio even further with parametric EQ, pro presets, and more in Sonar.
AUDIO SETTING
FEEL THE STORY IN EACH SOUND
10-band equalizer
Tailor each sound profile to your own preferences. Tweak settings for voices, bass, and treble for clearer audio.
Surround sound
Hear every sound on your stereo device placed with surgical precision to recreate a n immersive multichannel experience.
Volume stabilizer
Balance your volume across every element of the audio experience to avoid spikes or dips in dialogue, soundtrack, explosions and more.
MICROPHONE CONTROL
BE HEARD WITHOUT THE NOISE
Microphone profiles
Set separate profiles for gaming and conference calls so you sound your best in every battle and boardroom meeting.
Voice stabilizer
Level your voice to maintain consistent volume without risk of distortion so you can defeat zombies, not sound like one.
Noise cancellation
Enable static noise suppression, echo removal, and lateral sound cancellation so others hear you over the coffee grinder.
WHO WOULD YOU QUEUE WITH?
Comparison | SteelSeries Nahimic | SteelSeries Sonar |
|---|---|---|
Availability |
Free preinstalled app |
Free download |
Audio EQ | Graphic 10-band | Parametric 10-band |
EQ Presets |
Multimedia + Game genre |
Multimedia + Game specific |
Intelligent EQ | Smart Profile | X |
Surround Sound | 7.1 | 7.1 |
Surround Sound Tuning | HRTF Based | Space and Performance |
Microphone EQ | Graphic 10-band | Parametric 10-band |
Audio Mix Panel | X |
Separated Tracks |
ChatMix | X | ✓ |
Visual Audio Radar | Sound Tracker | X |
Real Surround | Easy Surround | X |
Stream Sound | Sound Sharing | X |
Streamer Mode | X |
Personal Stream Mix |
SHOP AWARD-WINNING AUDIO
WHAT EXPERTS ARE SAYING
HOW CAN WE HELP?
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Nahimic is only available on select computers. See if Nahimic technology is built into yours.
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Nahimic Basics
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FAQ
If your PC was shipped with the Nahimic audio driver pre-installed, a recent update to the driver added the companion app to provide a user interface for the driver and allow you to add additional Nahimic features. In the past, if your PC was using the Nahimic audio driver to optimize sound quality, there was no user interface letting you know when it was being updated or used. The companion app is there to let you know the version and to help you maintain your drivers.
The Nahimic audio driver is audio software that optimizes the performance of the speakers in your PC.
The Nahimic audio driver adds speaker correction (fine tuning), which lets your PC achieve the original sound design planned by your PC manufacturer. PC manufacturers work with Nahimic to optimize the sound design and performance of the PC and the driver and companion app ensure that the sound is optimized. Without the Nahimic audio driver your PC may not sound as intended by the manufacturer. An added benefit of the Nahimic audio driver is protecting your speakers by reducing excess vibration, ensuring you can enjoy higher volume without buzzing or distortion.
The Nahimic audio driver is preinstalled on many PCs, Motherboards and Headset/Headphones by manufacturers like MSI, Lenovo, Dell, Alienware, Gigabyte, Huawei, Honor, Machenike, Thunderobot, AsRock.
If you uninstall the Nahimic audio driver:
Sound quality may noticeably decline. The volume you experience may not be as loud as with the driver installed. The speakers may begin buzzing or vibrating at when listening at higher volumes. It is possible to damage the speakers when listening at a high volume. You will lose all the additional features included with the Nahimic application. (EQ, Surround Sound, Bass boost, Treble boost…)
After a Windows update or an unexpected malfunction, Nahimic might fail to initialize properly and the following message could appear "Nahimic has failed to initialize".
If you're experiencing any problems with Nahimic, you can try to recover Nahimic full functionality by using the Nahimic automatic restore tool attached to the link:
https://nahimic.helprace.com/i751-new-how-to-recover-nahimic-with-one-click
You simply have to launch the tool with one click and it will process to detect your hardware, check your system updates, clean and install everything needed to get Nahimic working again.