Post by Thadrana on Jun 22, 2011 19:10:57 GMT -5
Ventrilo Normalization makes everyones voice the exact same volume. In essence, you won't blow your ears out or have difficulty hearing people.
If you are being told you are to quiet, make sure to go into your computers sound settings and make sure your mic volume is turned up BEFORE you add any gains in your ventrilo settings. This will help reduce any gain distortions.
Change your mic decibels:
Start Menu > Control Panel
Hardware and Sound > Sound
Click "Recording" tab > Select Microphone
Properties > Click the "Levels" tab
Make sure the microphone is at 100% output and then change the decibels level where needed. You may need a friend to help you out. Make sure their vent is normalized before you start.
Here's how to normalize with the compressor option in ventrilo settings:
- 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. (try 15)
- Attack= 0.01
- Release= Around 500
- Threshold= Around -30
- Ratio= 100
- Pre delay = 4.0
What the settings do
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 shitty.
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. 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 this is 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.
Now you can have comfort knowing that you will be able to hear everyone clearly.
If you are being told you are to quiet, make sure to go into your computers sound settings and make sure your mic volume is turned up BEFORE you add any gains in your ventrilo settings. This will help reduce any gain distortions.
Change your mic decibels:
Start Menu > Control Panel
Hardware and Sound > Sound
Click "Recording" tab > Select Microphone
Properties > Click the "Levels" tab
Make sure the microphone is at 100% output and then change the decibels level where needed. You may need a friend to help you out. Make sure their vent is normalized before you start.
Here's how to normalize with the compressor option in ventrilo settings:
- 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. (try 15)
- Attack= 0.01
- Release= Around 500
- Threshold= Around -30
- Ratio= 100
- Pre delay = 4.0
What the settings do
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 shitty.
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. 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 this is 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.
Now you can have comfort knowing that you will be able to hear everyone clearly.
