Audio Radar 2.0
See every sound. Purpose-built for PC.
In the box: 7 light bars, center included
4.7★ · 3,000+ setups
Free 2-Day shipping (US) · 30-day returns · 1-year warranty
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Audio Radar 2.0 turns your game’s audio into real-time directional light around your monitor. Footsteps, gunfire, the player sneaking up behind you. Surround Vision Technology™ shows each sound as light exactly where it’s coming from, about 25 milliseconds after it happens.
One USB-C cable to your PC. A free desktop app for Windows 10 and 11 that walks you through setup visually, step by step: no sound needed to get running, and no audio-engineering degree either. No Voicemeeter, ever.
It’s at its best where directional sound decides fights: Call of Duty and Warzone, PUBG, Fortnite, Valorant, Rust. And you keep your headset: in PUBG Sound Lab testing, players using a headset and Audio Radar together scored 47% higher than with the headset alone.
Designed and engineered in the USA, built with direct input from Deaf and hard-of-hearing gamers, and played by everyone who games visual-first, from single-sided hearing and tinnitus to auditory processing. This first production run is built in Michigan.
Platform: 64-bit Windows 10 (build 1709+) or Windows 11 · free desktop app required
Connection: USB-C data + USB-C power — nothing touches your video signal
Light bars: 7 × 4.5″ aluminum bars, center included · 3M Command Strip mounting
Sound-to-light: real time — reacts as the sound happens
Windows PC only — no macOS, Linux, Windows ARM, or console. Best with games that output 5.1/7.1 surround; stereo-only games give left/right with less front/rear separation. Your headset keeps working — the app sends audio to both at once.
7 light bars · Command Module · 2 USB-C cables · power block · 7 bar cables · 14 mounting strips · quick-start card
1-year limited warranty · 30-day returns · real-human support from the team that built it.
Fastest answers, day or night: the community. Join the Discord ›
Simple by design
From game audio to light.
Setup takes minutes. The free Windows desktop app does the mapping for you.
47%
Performance lift — PUBG Sound Lab testing
Read the study
3,000+
Units in players' setups today
See it in action
Real games. Real moments.
A sound happens off-screen. A light appears where it came from. That is the whole product. Here are seven clips across four games, in the order we would show a friend.
PUBG Sound Lab
Four setups, forty runs, and the headset finished third.
Sound Lab plays a gunshot and asks you to shoot the target closest to it. No sound at all averaged 38.8. A headset on its own averaged 127.7. Audio Radar alone, with the game muted, averaged 142.6. A headset plus Audio Radar averaged 187.7.
Which puts a headset third of the four. Sound Lab is a controlled environment and this was one player's testing rather than a clinical trial, so treat it as indicative, not final.
Read the full results
The results
All ten runs, nothing averaged away.
Headset plus Audio Radar came out on top in every one of the ten attempts. Audio Radar on its own, with the game muted, beat the headset in six of them.
The four where the headset won are on the chart too. Ten runs by one player is a small test, and showing the spread is more useful than showing only the average.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Footsteps, lit up as they move.
An opponent circles a transportation chamber. The player never sees them and never needs to: the bars follow the footsteps around the room in real time, so the light moves as the enemy moves.
Watch the handoff from one bar to the next. That is the moment a flank stops being a surprise.
PUBG
Scoped in, and you still catch the flank.
The player is zoomed on a distant target, which is exactly when tunnel vision gets you killed. Shots come in from the right, and the right-hand bar fires before the scope has moved a pixel.
Under five seconds, and it is the whole argument for putting sound in your peripheral vision.
Rust
The growl behind you, before you turn.
A bear lines up a charge from behind. The rear bar catches the low growl while the player is still facing the wrong way, which is the only warning you get in that situation.
If you watch one clip on this page, make it this one. It takes no shooter knowledge to read, and it is the clearest picture of what a sense you did not previously have actually feels like.
PUBG
An engine circling, from the far right.
A vehicle approaches from the far right and arcs around the player. The bars track it the whole way, so you read not just where it is but which way it is going.
A ping tells you something happened. This tells you what it is doing.
Rust
The supply plane, before it is on screen.
An airdrop plane is audible long before there is anything to see. The engine registers on the edge of your vision the moment it comes into range, and in Rust that is the difference between reaching the crate first and arriving second.
Minecraft, with the plugin
Every sound type gets its own color.
The downloadable Minecraft plugin goes past direction. Each kind of sound is mapped to its own color, so a mob, a footstep and a breaking block are told apart at a glance instead of by position alone.
Works with both Audio Radar 1 and Audio Radar 2.
The desktop app
The app that runs the show.
Free, required, and doing the heavy lifting — here's what it gives you.
Three modes
Gaming. Chill. Lighting.
Gaming reacts to live game audio with directional cues. Chill turns the bars into ambient light that follows your sound. Lighting is your colors, your effects. One click switches.
EQ · noise gate · sensitivity
Tune out the noise. Make it yours.
Gate the background hum and set how much sound it takes to light a bar — so your own footsteps don't drown the sound that matters. Presets for every game, community presets to share and download.
Full app tour
Two tests, zero guessing
Set up by sight, not sound.
The setup lights each bar on the diagram and in your room at the same moment, one by one around your screen — you confirm with your eyes. Then a second test plays real sound through every surround channel and the radar reacts end to end.
Nothing depends on your hearing, and every “it's not working” path leads to a real fix. Watch Dom’s walkthrough ›
On your desk
Made to fit your setup.
Mounts around your screen with 3M Command Strips. OLED or thin bezel? Add the L-Bracket Kit ›
Works with the games you play.
If your game has audio, Audio Radar can show it. A few favorites:
Audio Radar 2.0 — or the original?
Which Audio Radar is right for you?
The original Audio Radar is the flagship — everything Audio Radar 2.0 does, plus Xbox, PlayStation, and Switch, with larger light bars. Audio Radar 2.0 is the purpose-built PC option: one USB-C cable and one app — no Voicemeeter, no HDMI passthrough, no display duplication. Your headset and monitor stay exactly as they are.
See the full comparisonAudio Radar
Audio Radar 2.0
Xbox, PlayStation, Switch — plus PC
PC — Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit)
HDMI audio on console; USB + desktop app on PC
USB-C + desktop app
Yes, on PC (free firmware v1.3.2 update)
Yes — guided setup, modes, EQ, presets, auto-update
Console and multi-platform gamers
PC-first gamers
FAQ
Questions, answered straight.
Straight answers — including the limits. Quickest answers often come from the community — join the Discord ›
Is this just RGB lighting?
No. RGB kits play patterns; Audio Radar reads your game's actual audio. Surround Vision Technology™ converts 7.1 surround sound into directional light in real time, so a footstep on your left becomes light on your left as the sound happens. It's positional information, not decoration.
Will anti-cheat systems flag it?
Audio Radar never touches your game. The app reads your PC's audio output through its own Windows audio device — no game files, no memory access, no overlays, no game hooks. Your PC sees it just like an audio device. The lights are external hardware; nothing is drawn on your screen. There's no FPS impact and no screen clutter.
What's in the box?
Seven light bars (center bar included), the USB-C cable for your PC, and the connecting cables between bars.
Does it work with every game?
Audio Radar works with any game that outputs audio — no per-game integration needed. It shines in surround-sound shooters where directional audio decides fights: Call of Duty and Warzone, PUBG (the game the 47% study was run in), Fortnite, Valorant, Rust. The honest bit: a few games — CS2 is the big one — only output stereo. Left/right response stays strong, but front/back separation is reduced. That's the game's audio output, not Audio Radar — full breakdown on the compare page.
Can I keep using my headset?
Yes — headset and lights together is the way it's meant to be played. The desktop app sends game audio to your headset and the light bars at the same time. And here's the part hearing players love: your ears get two channels — the game outputs up to 7.1 surround. You hear in stereo. You see in surround. It's also how the PUBG Sound Lab study was run: headset plus Audio Radar together scored 47% higher than the headset alone. Read the study ›
I have single-sided hearing — does this help?
Yes — this one's for you. In Audio Routing, flip your headset output to Mono so the full game mix reaches your hearing ear — nothing gets lost on your other side — and use the per-ear Balance slider to weight it exactly how you like. Then let the bars carry direction: Surround Vision Technology™ shows you where every sound came from, no matter which ear it was mixed to.
Do you ship internationally?
Yes. We ship worldwide from the USA, and US orders ship free with 2-day FedEx delivery. For international orders to supported destinations, duties and taxes are calculated and collected at checkout, so prices show in your local currency and there is nothing to pay when your order arrives.
We currently cannot ship to Türkiye, Russia or China. If your country does not appear at checkout, we do not ship there yet.
What if it's not for me?
30-day returns, no hard feelings. Set it up, play your games, and decide in your own setup.
What are Gaming, Chill, and Lighting modes?
Gaming reacts to live game audio with directional cues — the reason this exists. Chill turns the bars into ambient light that moves with whatever you're playing or listening to. Lighting makes them straight lighting — your colors, your effects, no audio required. One click in the app switches between them.
Will it cost me frames?
No. The app reads audio the way any audio device does — no overlay, no game hooks, nothing in your render path. Your frame rate doesn't know it's there.
I have an OLED or thin-bezel display — can I mount it?
Yes, with the L-Bracket Kit — Command Strips need bezel space that thin displays don't have, so the brackets give each bar a shelf to sit on. Get the L-Bracket Kit ›
In the box
Everything you need.
7 light bars · Command Module · 2 USB-C cables · power block · 7 bar cables · 14 mounting strips · quick-start guide
