OpenAL Sound Origin Issue

[Jayschwa]

Hello, I'm new.

I've been playing with ioq3 a bit and love the addition of OpenAL sound,  
though there is a quirk with it. I'm using a 5.1 speaker setup, and things  
that are directly in front of me (projectile hits, bouncing grenades, etc)  
come out of the center speaker strongly, as they should. The exception  
seems to be sounds originating from my player. Things like weapon fire and  
jumping come out a lot more faintly, mainly through the left and right  
channels. This effect is a little disconcerting, as I can hear the bullets  
hitting the wall across the map more clearly than the machinegun firing  
right in front of my face.

I'm going to hazard a guess that the precise source of these sounds is  
below the "ears" of the player, mainly because looking down and firing  
makes the sound come through nice and strong in the center, but looking up  
and firing makes the sound come out mainly from the rear speakers. I was  
briefly looking around in the code to see if I could find anything, but  
I'm not familiar with the Quake 3 source, and I'm also an inexperienced  
programmer in general. Does anyone have some insight into this?

~ Josh