[Aion Bunny]

VENT NORMALISATION:
Vent Normalisation makes everybody's voice the exact same volume. In essence, you won't blow your ear's out or have difficulty hearing people.

I don't know the original source for this guide, unfortunately, as it's something that ended up on a guild forum of mine back in 2007 and I don't know where that poster got it from.
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Here's how:

• Go to Setup
• Enable Direct Sound
• Select the SFX Button
• Select Compressor and click Add.
• Under Compressor Properties use the following settings

• Gain = Adjust for how loud you want people to be. (I use 15)
• Attack = 0.01
• Release = Around 500
• Threshold = Around -30
• Ratio = 100
• Pre delay = 4.0

Gain
How much volume you feed into the compressor. Not really relevant unless everyone is too quiet, then you can turn this up a little; turning it up too much will sound EXTREMELY *%*%ty.

Attack
How fast volume change will happen. example: setting this to 500 means that anything coming in will only be dropped in volume after a half a second. For vent this should be set as low as possible.

Release
How fast the compressor stops changing things. It's not really that relevant with vent, setting it around 500 is good for voice material.

Threshold
This sets the point where we actually start changing what's coming in. Whereas 0 is the absolute loudest you can have for an input, -60 is super quiet. Average users will probably come in somewhere around -25 to -15, with the occaisional few being really quiet, which is why I have this set so low.

Ratio
How much any sound below the set threshold gets compressed and/or modified in the volume department. If you still want to hear SOME volume variation then set this lower (2-4)... the higher you set it the closer in volume everyone will be.

Pre delay
Mostly just deals with processing; with computer and digital processors they can look ahead a few milliseconds to see what needs to be dropped in volume or changed before it actually comes through the speakers. Highest is ideal for ventrilo.


/hugs

[SilentGrave]

Thank you.

[Dustin]

Now I can talk. :P

[Mad-A]

thanks. all my friends on vent just changed to this.

[Maxum]

Great guide! Thanks!

[Marbleshade]

You could have credited the original source, but thanks for the info.

[Blacksable]

this will keep the blood in my ears!

[Eric Danieros]

This guide is win, much better than customizing the volume of each member individually.

[Asseroth]

Thank you! Some members sond too low and some too high and its annoying having them setting all the settings!

[xenofixus]

It might be worth mentioning that this does detract from sound quality quite audibly.

[GamerAmelli]

Nice thankyou!

Marbleshade said:

You could have credited the original source, but thanks for the info.

Perhaps this is the OP? - Link

This post has been edited by GamerAmelli: 29 September 2009 - 04:41 AM