Audio mixing and equalization in gaming systems

A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:

• receiving, from a gaming application, gaming output information including a game output audio stream;
• and
• receiving, at an audio processing module in data communication with the gaming application, the game output audio stream from the gaming application and producing a plurality of game audio streams;
• providing, on a display device of a gamer, a graphical user interface configured to receive, from the gamer, gamer input including information about respective audio customizations for the plurality of game audio streams, the graphical user interface including an audio stream selector configured for actuation by the gamer to select a display of one of a gaming audio control panel, a chat audio control panel and a microphone audio control panel;
• and
• applying, by the audio processing module, respective audio customizations to each respective game audio stream of the plurality of game audio streams, according to the gamer input.

A device, comprising

• a processing system including a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
• receiving, from a gaming application, gaming output information including a game output audio stream, the game audio output stream including a plurality of game audio streams;
• providing a graphical user interface configured for receipt of user manipulations of the graphical user interface, the user manipulations including actuation of an audio stream selector to select for display, on the graphical user interface, a respective gaming audio control panel of a plurality of gaming audio control panels, the plurality of gaming audio control panels for modifying the plurality of game audio streams, forming a selected gaming audio control panel;
• receiving, at the graphical user interface, gamer input defining audio customizations for a selected game audio stream of the plurality of game audio streams;
• communicating, by a virtual audio device in data communication with the gaming application, the plurality of game audio streams of the gaming application with one or more audio output devices of a gamer;
• and
• applying, by an audio processing module in data communication with the virtual audio device, the audio customizations to the selected game audio stream, according to the gamer input.