Listening to steps in Call of Duty can feel vital for success, especially in the most competitive ways of the game. Fortunately, the latest system software update for PlayStation 5 makes the audition steps much easier in those crucial moments in Black Ops 6 and Warzone. Here, we guide it through the new configuration and provide recommendations to use the Audio Focus function on PS5.
What is PS5 Audio Focus?
The last update of the Sony system software reached PlayStation 5 on April 24, 2025, and this included the addition of Audio Focus, which is a feature of accessibility that allows you to amplify and listen more clearly certain parts of the audio of the game.
The PS5 audio approach works similarly to the volume equalization configuration used by Call of Duty PC players. The volume EQ levels the high and low audio of the game, minimizing strong and unnecessary sounds while amplifying the quietest, such as enemy steps. This has kept console players at an audio disadvantage in recent years.
Fortunately, the PC advantage is now minimized if you are a PlayStation player 5. All you need to do is activate the audio approach and make some selections.
How to use Audio Focus
First, make sure you update the last update of the system in PS5.
- Then go to your PlayStation 5 configuration
- Select sound configuration
- Move to volume configuration
- Select audio focus
You will find four prejustments of the type of approach: boost the low tone, increase the voices, boost the high tone and increase the quiet sounds. Each prejustment can be adjusted to weak, medium and strong levels, and there is even an option to establish left and right audio channels separately.
Audio approach recommendations
Boost High Pitch
He Boost High Pitch The configuration is specifically designed to help with the audio of steps, since it is detailed that they amplify “high frequency like steps and metal noises.”
While anyone can use it to obtain a competitive advantage, it is important to keep in mind that the audio approach is an accessibility feature designed more for players with real auditory loss. There will be streamers and content creators who use this in strong configurations to try to maximize their competitive advantage, but if you do not have hearing problems, you may not need this configuration to become the highest option to use it as an optional sound improvement.
I recommend starting weak or medium for this configuration. I am grateful to have a good audience and a solid headset, so I discovered that using the strong configuration for Boost High Pitch was too much for me. The steps did not sound painfully strong, but some of the metallic sounds included in the environment were often perforators. Some of the noise of the vehicle and the crunchy metal of the aircraft in Boneyard were almost unbearable for me.
I played Warzone for a few hours with Boost High Pitch in several strengths. He definitely helped increase the audio of the steps in an impressive way, and I would not be surprised if they informed me like a cheater. There were times when I could listen to the enemies walking from the other side of a large hill, and once I could listen to an enemy approaching behind me while I was already in a shooting, which would have been difficult to listen to the normal sound configuration.
Increase quiet sounds
He Increase quiet sounds PRESET says that he amplifies “low volume sounds in a wide range of frequencies.” Technically, the audio of steps may sound low in Call of Duty, so I decided to try this as a softer alternative to the high tone configuration Boost.
I tried to play Warzone with this configuration in Medium and Strong. I could still hear stronger steps than normal configuration, but it didn’t sound as shocking as using the high Boost tone. The most shocking audio was when enemies crawled through the areas covered with verdansk grass. I could listen to the grass whisper more clearly, which allowed me to better determine its location.
Therefore, this could be a softer alternative if you want to amplify the sound, but it finds that the high Boost tone is too much for its ears. This configuration also allows you to listen to more atmospheric sounds such as wind and whispering leaves that would probably never listen in another way, but that is not Intel that will help you win games.
Focus audio It only works with headphones. If you cannot adjust the audio approach configuration, you are likely not to detect a headset, so be sure to have your connected headphones. This configuration should also work for other games in PlayStation 5.
For more adjustments, we also have a guide for the recommended configuration to use on Black Ops 6 and Warzone. This includes controller, audio, graphics and advanced game configurations designs.
