The game calls this room Microphone Array: one player sits in the listening chair with the headphones while the six active microphone stations are tested one at a time. Press the station that sounds clear and centred, then keep going until the meter has taken five rounds.
🧩 Listening Puzzle🔢 6 active microphone stations👥 One shared version — the same in 2-player, 3-player and 4+ worlds🏆 Gourd🔄 Wrong press resets progress
A stage with lit positions and a board of buttons? That is the Concert challenge, not this room.
Big Walk has more than one room built around sound, so check what is standing in front of you first:
Six stations around one chair is this room. If you have a chair and a tune but no ring of microphones around it, you are at a different sound puzzle — start from Puzzle Finder instead.
Player setting: One shared version — the same in 2-player, 3-player and 4+ worldsWhy can other puzzles look different?
These two numbers get mixed together, and they are not the same thing. Six is how many stations you can choose between. Five is how many accepted rounds the meter wants. The room also holds more microphone props than the six that count, so work with the stations in the ring around the chair — six choices, five rounds, never five microphones.
Sounds correct
Clear and centred, arriving roughly the same on both sides of the headphones.
Sounds wrong
Faint, muffled, or pushed hard to one ear.
Audible is not correct
Almost every station can be heard from the chair. Hearing a teammate at all is not the clue — how clear and centred their feed is, is the clue.
Nothing to read
There is no panel and no written clue in this room, so no answer can be copied from anyone else's game.
One player takes the listening chair and wears the headphones for the whole attempt. Everyone else moves between the stations. Whoever is judging the sound should not change halfway through, or earlier rounds stop meaning anything.
Tip: Real stereo headphones or earbuds make the left/right difference far easier to hear, but the room does not force you to use them.
Agree on a name for every station so a number always means the same physical microphone. The names are only the words your team uses to talk to each other — they are not the answer, and no station number is correct for another group.
Success check: Everyone points at the same station when a number is called.
A player stands at one station and says the same short phrase — "testing" is enough. Then move to the next station and repeat, at the same distance and the same volume.
Tip: Do not let two players speak into two stations at once. Mixed feeds are exactly why the room starts to sound like every station is equally loud.
The listener is comparing the microphone feed, not ordinary voice chat. If everyone else keeps talking, their voices arrive on top of the station being tested and the comparison stops meaning anything.
Success check: The listener hears the station being tested, and not much else.
The station that counts is the one that comes through clearly and evenly across both ears. A station can be loud and still arrive pushed hard to one side, so loudness is the wrong thing to compare.
Success check: The listener can describe the winning station as clear and centred, not just audible.
The listener calls the number, and the player standing at that station presses its button once. Do not press stations to find out which one works: a press on the wrong station is not harmless here.
Tip: If the call was not clear, ask for it again rather than pressing something and hoping.
Look at the progress meter straight after the press. If it moved, that round landed. If it did not move and the meter has gone back to the start, a wrong station was pressed — go back to the listening test instead of trying another button.
Success check: The progress meter has gained one step, or you know to start again.
Run the whole listening test again for the next round, with the same listener in the chair and the same six names. The meter counts in single steps up to five, and the room finishes on the fifth one.
Success check: Five accepted rounds are on the meter and the Gourd is released.
Suggested team organisation, not a rule the game enforces
Two players are already enough. Extra players only put people on more stations, which makes the testing faster — nothing here changes how the room itself works.
Look for the room with the listening chair in the middle and the six microphone stations standing around it. Use the map on this page rather than a compass direction from somewhere else: the marker sits on the room itself, so the pin is the position to trust even when a written description of the area disagrees.
Likely cause: A press landed on a station the listener had not called. The room treats a wrong station as a failure and clears the meter rather than ignoring the press.
Check
Fix: Stop pressing stations. Put the same listener back in the chair and run the one-station-at-a-time test again before you press anything, because guessing costs the whole run.
Likely cause: The press did not match what the room expected. Either the wrong station was pressed, or the call was not clear enough for the runner to know which station it was.
Check
Fix: Re-run the listening test with the same names for the stations, call the number again, and press once when the listener is certain.
Likely cause: More than one station is being used at the same time, or ordinary voice chat is being compared with the station feed instead of one station at a time.
Check
Fix: Test one station at a time with the same short phrase, keep the rest of the team quiet, and compare clarity and left/right balance instead of volume.
Likely cause: Normal voice chat and the microphone feed arrive together in the chair, so an audible teammate is not the same as the correct station.
Check
Fix: Mute the room down to one voice at a time. The station you want is the clear, centred one, not whichever teammate happens to be loudest.
Likely cause: If voice chat is broken outside this room too, the problem is not the microphone challenge.
Check
Fix: Sort voice chat out first and come back to the room afterwards — the multiplayer troubleshooting guide covers the usual causes.
🏆 Gourd
Five accepted rounds finish the room and release its Gourd. Collecting it clears the challenge.
View all Gourd locations →Both rooms are built around sound, so they get mixed up constantly. Concert is the stage: one player reads a lit conductor panel in the booth and the other presses the seven buttons below it in the order they are called, so there is a real button order to follow, and the challenge needs eight clean rounds. This room is the chair and the ring of microphone stations, where the next station is decided by what the listener hears and no button order can be copied. A chair playing a tune with no ring of microphones around it is a different sound puzzle again — start from Puzzle Finder for that one.
Open Concert Guide →Nearby challenges
Match the booth lights to the stage buttons across eight rounds
🧩 ButtonWatch the playback, count the signals, then validate
🧩 LogicSomeone acts the clue out instead of sending it down a microphone line
🧩 TeamRecord the current signals, then match five Set D positions
🧩 TileSeat one player in the listening chair with the headphones, have the others test the six microphone stations one at a time, and press the station that sounds clear and centred. Repeat that until five accepted rounds have landed on the meter.
Six stations feed the meter. The room does contain more microphone props than that, but only the six stations in the ring around the chair are the ones that count, so work with the six you can stand at.
Because the number five belongs to the meter, not to the stations. The room has six microphone stations and the meter counts five successful rounds — six choices, five rounds.
The one that comes through clearly and evenly across both ears. Faint, muffled or one-sided stations are the wrong ones, and the correct station is decided by what your listener hears in the current round.
No. Do not copy a station number from a video or another guide, because the correct station is the one your own listener hears in that round. The display meter is what confirms a press landed.
A wrong station was pressed. The room treats a press on the wrong station as a failure and clears the meter, which is why guessing your way through the six stations costs you the whole run.
Five. Each accepted press advances the meter by one step and the room finishes on the fifth, so there is no countdown to sit through.
Yes. One player stays in the chair and judges the feed while the other moves between the six stations. You do not need one player per microphone — extra players only make the testing quicker.
No. There is one version of this room, and the world setting does not swap it for another layout. Group size only changes how many stations you can cover at the same time.
Clarity and balance rather than volume: the feed that sounds clean and sits evenly in the middle of both ears. Have one teammate speak the same short phrase into one station at a time, and keep everybody else quiet while it happens.
Strong stereo headphones or earbuds make the left and right difference much easier to hear, so they are strongly recommended. Nothing we have seen makes them a hard requirement, so try the room with what you have.
No. If you are standing in front of a chair with headphones and six microphone stations around it, you are in this room. A chair that plays a tune with no ring of microphones is a different sound puzzle, and the Puzzle Finder will take you to the right one.
Only if the meter itself refuses to advance. If you cannot hear or speak to your team anywhere in the game, that is a voice chat problem rather than the microphone challenge, and the multiplayer troubleshooting guide fixes it.