The one aspect of CROSSTALK that is missing IMHO, is background noise. There is always an amount of white noise when PTT is activated. Plus you have jet/prop/rotor noise in the background as well as electrical interference and in the case of chopper pilots, some vibration in the pilot's voice. ARIES emulates this effect quite well. Is there a way of modifying CROSSTALK to emulate background noise? The only downside to ARIES as I see it, is that everyone else that you are communicating with needs to have it. The advantage of CROSSTALK is you can be the only one using it. Which is great, because you can go to any public server and enjoy the effect.